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Click here to subscribeLATE 17TH CENTURY STAINED OAK GATE LEGGED TABLE on baluster turned legs and standing on bun feet, having single drawer, on stretcher supports. 128 x 74 x 113cm.(B.P. 24% incl. VAT) CONDITION REPORT: Various shrinkage splits to the top, general wear, scratches, stains etc. commensurate with age. Modern screws and replacement fittings underneath table. Some repairs to the flaps and rather dry in places.
Inscribed CopiesGuinness (Bryan) Collected Poems 1927 - 1955, roy 8vo L. 1956. First Edn., cloth & d.w.; The Giant's Eye, 8vo L. 1964. First Edn, decor. title, Signed Pres. Copy to Michael Holroyd, with his bookplate, cloth & d.w.; Another Man's Shoes, lg. 8vo D. [St. James Gate, 1965] 12pp. A Short Story, issued Privately by the Brewery as a Christmas Card, pictorial wrappers; and Diary not kept Essays in Recollection, roy 8vo Salisbury (Compton Press) 1975. Lim. Edn. 500 Copies, Signed by Author, cloth backed marble boards, with title band loosely inserted. (4)
Longley (Michael) The Echo Gate, Poems 1975 - 79, 8vo L. 1979. First Edn., cloth & d.w.; Patchwork, with drawings by Jim Allen. 8vo D. (Gallery) 1981. Lim. Edn. 500 Copies. Signed by Author & Artist, cloth backed boards; Out of The Cold, Drawings & Poems for Christmas. Newry 1999. Lim. Edn. 244 (500) Signed by Author & Artist, cloth & pict. d.w.; The Weather in Japan, L. 2000 Lim. Edn. 138 (150) Signed by Author, special boards & orig. d.w. All v. good. (4)
Very Fine Complete FileDublin Gate Theatre. Motley (periodical), ed. Mary Manning, Vol. I No. 1 (March 1932) - Vol. III No. 4 (May 1934), 19 numbers complete (Vol. I has 7 numbers, Vol. II has 8, Vol. III only 4). A fine complete set in recent buckram boards (untitled), quarto, orig. covers by Mac Liammoir bound in. Certainly the finest set we have seen and probably the finest existing. Publication was irregular, and sets or even good runs are rare. Contribs. include Lord Longford, Hilton Edwards, 'E.W. Tocher' [Denis Johnston], Francis Stuart, Padraic Colum, Sean O Faolain, Micheal Mac Liammoir, Austin Clarke, the Editor, etc., with many excellent theatre photographs and illustrations. An invaluable slice of Dublin cultural life in the early 1930s. (1)
Edwards (Hilton) Director. A good TLs. on Gate Theatre notepaper dated 24 September 1951, 1 pp, to Donagh [MacDonagh], concerning his play God's Gentry. 'First of all I think the play is delightful. I believe you are re writing the last act ..', and in view of this he offers some thoughts about how this might be done. 'Incidentally, you are the only writer I have met in Ireland who can write love scenes .. I would not find the play easy to cast, but I am very interested in doing it, particularly if the English and American rights were available for a period.' Minor tears at folds, no loss. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1)
Dublin Gate Theatre. A quarto brochure, 'Did you Know that the Gate ...', with photos, circa 1940. Laid in is a Share Certificate Signed by Hilton Edwards, dated November 1930, no. 35, confirming that William O'Brien of Botanic Road [Dublin] is the owner of two fully paid shares of £1 each in the Theatre Company. Presumably the trade unionist. (1)
Denis Johnston - Unpublished MemoirsJohnston (Denis) (1901 - 1984) Established his reputation as an Important Playwright with his first play The Old Lady Says "No!" produced by The Gate Theatre Dublin in 1929. Johnston went on to have a diverse and distinguished career as writer, director, literary critic, BBC war correspondent and academic.This archive of 4 Original Typescripts by Johnston comprises a total of 23 closely typed folio pages of his reminiscences of his school days in Dublin, seven years at the Bar, the early days of TV at the BBC, working as a World War Two correspondent in the Middle East, and his experiences lecturing at American Universities. The typescripts are early drafts for a series of Radio Eireann broadcasts made by Johnston in the 1970s entitled Orders and Desercrations - The Harvest of Dragon's Teeth / Buttercups and Blood, Getting Out and Security. One typescript is signed in ink by Johnston and all have copius corrections and additions in his handwriting. Also included in the lot is a 5 page facsimile copy of an additional Johnston script. The Scales of Soloman, which is clearly part of the same series. (1)
Signed by Each PoetHeaney (Seamus) & John Montague. Poetry Ireland 50/60. Programme for a reading to mark the 60th birthday of John Montague and the 50th birthday of Seamus Heaney, with music by Liam O'Flynn. Gate Theatre, Dublin, 11 June 1989. Includes a Signed Poem by each Poet dedicated to the Other. Attractive item, clean copy. (1)
The Author's First CollectionSigned Presentation to the Memory of Patrick KavanaghDurcan (Paul) O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor, 8vo D. (Dublin Magazine Press) 1975. First Edition, orig. pict. wrappers. Very fine. (1)* Paul Durcan won the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1974. This copy inscribed, 'Maybe Mary might call round....and then I came to the haggard gate,And I knew as I entered that I had comethrough fields that were part of no earthly estate''To the memory of Patrickand to Katherine Barry Moloney Kavanagh, dear kindest friend,from Paul Durcan, 14 June 1975.'A truly unique Copy.
Edith Lawrence (1890-1973) ''The Mill, Langholm, Scotland'' Signed, inscribed and dated 1930 verso, pencil and watercolour, together with four further watercolours by the same hand including a view from an aeroplane window, a study of a congregation of people, possibly depicting the open air assembly ''Landsgemeinde at Glarus, Switzerland'' and a study of cattle at a gate, 50.5cm by 35cm, 23cm by 30cm, 48.5cm by 34cm, 35cm by 50cm respectively (4) (unframed) Provenance: From the Estate of Edith Lawrence Born in Surrey in 1890. Lawrence was a painter, designer, printmaker and teacher. She attended the Slade School of Art from 1910-14, where she was a prizewinning student. She went on the spend a period of time in St. Ives and returned to the Slade in 1916 where she studied under the Canadian born artist Percyval Tudor Hart and also began exhibiting at the Royal Academy and New English Art Club. In 1917 she took up a teaching position at Runston Hill School and in 1920 she met Claude Flight, the founder of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. In 1925 she moved into Claude Flight's studio and the two shared an exhibition of textiles and linocuts at the Redfern Gallery in 1926. In 1927 they set up an interior decorating business trying out different methods of linocut, wallpaper, wall hangings and textiles. Edith spent many summers with Claude at his Neolithic chalk cave in the banks of the Seine at Chantemesle, that he had purchased for 300 francs after his time in France during WW1. Here he taught the art of the linocut at informal summer schools. During WWII Claude and Edith lived in London working from their studio off Baker Street. Later fleeing from the blitz they moved to a cottage in Donhead St Andrew. She spent much of her later life at Worth Matravers, the surrounding area becoming a source of inspiration for many of her paintings. In 1973, the year of her death Edith held a solo exhibition at the University of Hull, which was later followed by a memorial exhibition in the same year at the Parkin Gallery dedicated to both Edith and Claude.
A late 18th century mahogany and banded games table, the fold over top supported on a single gate action, with two drawers to ends on chamfered and moulded square section legs, h. 72 cm, w. 84 cm, d. 42 cm CONDITION REPORT: One ear missing. Slight warp to top. Later baize. Condition commensurate with age.
Coalport Hand Painted Cottages Eleven in total, each fashioned in fine bone china and marked 'Coalport, made in England' to base. To include 'Summer Retreat' 'Christmas Cottage' 'The Christmas Church' 'The Masters House' 'The Bell Tower' 'The Country Cottage' 'The Old Palace Gate House' 'Park Folly' 'The Coaching Inn' 'The Parasol House' and 'The Gazebo'
George III mahogany drop-leaf table, oval top with three reed edge, single frieze drawer, all standing on turned legs, with double gate. 133 x 165cm (52 x 65in). Condition report: Probably converted from centre section of larger table, changing a rectangular top to an oval top to disguise alteration. Overall finish good. Condition report: see terms and conditions
Island off Thrace, Thasos, gold drachm, c. 380 BC, bearded head of Dionysos left, crowned with ivy, rev., ΘΑΣΙΟΝ, Herakles wearing lion-skin headdress and chiton, in attitude of kneeling to right, shooting with bow; in right field, Κ, 3.93g, die axis 3.00, virtually as struck, very rare. References: Hunt collection, part 3, Sotheby’s, 4 December 1990, lot 33, same dies; Münzen und Medaillen 41, 1970, 49, same dies; Hess Leu 45, 1970, 107, same dies; West pl. 4, 30 var. (with Θ on reverse). Provenance: Gerald Hoberman Collection; DNW, London, 27 September 2011, lot 2005 (where catalogued with incorrect earlier provenances). Note: Although Herodotus’s (2.44 and 6.47) suggestion that the Thasian gold mines were first worked by the Phoenicians had long been questioned, recent scholarship seems to support his account (Graham, p. 88). The reverse type of a kneeling archaic figure of Herakles as an archer, is “one of the very few instances in classical times when we can be quite sure that a coin design is taken from large-scale art.” (Jenkins, 1972, p. 114). The sculpture which served as the model, now in the Archaeological Museum, Istanbul (Mendel no. 518), was discovered in 1866 in the gate of the city’s west wall; it was also adopted as the motif on amphora seals of Thasian wine. The “famous vineyards of Thasos” are reason enough to understand the head of Dionysos on the coin’s obverse.
Bacon (Sir Francis) The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane, first edition, variant b (with 'maniable' and 'through' and 'lights' in italic), with the 2 rare errata leaves at end, large woodcut initials, lacking blank 3H2, title repaired without loss of text, a couple of wormholes to outer margins, repairs to margins of ff. at end, water-stained at foot towards end, disbound, housed in a 20th century calf box, [Gibson 81; STC 1164; Pforzheimer 36; Grolier / Horblit 8a; Norman 97], small 4to, Printed [by Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, and are to be sould at his shop at Graies Inne gate in Holborne, 1605. ⁂ With the two rare errata leaves: 'A very few copies have appended two leaves of Errata' (Pforzheimer). 'In the Twoo Bookes, Bacon concerned himself primarily with the classification of philosophy and the sciences and with developing his influential view of the relation between science and theology' (Norman).
Bacon (Sir Francis) The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane, first edition, variant b (with 'maniable' and 'through' and 'lights' in italic), large woodcut initials, lacking blank 3H2 and final 2 errata ff. (as often), title repaired without loss of text, trimmed at head, affecting headlines, repair to upper corner of last f. some staining and spotting, antique style calf, [Gibson 81; STC 1164; Pforzheimer 36; Grolier / Horblit 8a; Norman 97], small 4to, Printed [by Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, and are to be sould at his shop at Graies Inne gate in Holborne, 1605.
Duels.- Bacon (Sir Francis) The Charge of Sir Francis Bacon Knight, his Maiesties Attourney generall, touching Duells, vpon an information in the Star-chamber against Priest and Wright. With the decree of the Star-chamber in the same cause, first edition, woodcut head-pieces and initials, lacking initial and final blank, title torn at inner upper corner, with loss, supplied in ink, repairs to last few upper corners, some staining or spotting, modern panelled calf, [Gibson 102; STC 1125], small 4to, Printed [by George Eld] for Robert Wilson, and are to be sold [by Robert Wilson and W. Bladen] at Graies Inne Gate, and in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bible, 1614. ⁂ Bacon against duels. He brought his case to court to see if it could 'doe any good to tame and reclaime that evill which seems unbridled'. He viewed duels as a threat to authority and against the will of God.
Bacon (Sir Francis) The Essaies, title within woodcut typographic border, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking blanks, repair to lower corner of C3 by Bernard Middleton, occasional spotting, a few small stains, contemporary blind-ruled calf, head of spine repaired, [Gibson 12; STC 1146], small 8vo, By I. D[awson]. for Elizabeth Iaggard, at the hand and Starre neere the middle Temple-gate, 1624. ⁂ A very good copy of an edition that is rare at auction. The last copy was that of Robert S. Pirie in 2015, but preceding that we have to return to 1981
Cabala, Mysteries of State, in Letters of the Great Ministers of K. James and K. Charles. Wherein much of the publique manage of affaires is related. Faithfully collected by a noble hand, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, 4 advertisments ff at end, occasional spotting, contemporary sheep, scuffed, [Gibson 320; Wing C183], printed for M.[ercy] M.[eighen]) G. Bedell and T. Collins, and are to be sold at their shop at the Middle-Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1654; and 3 other editions of the same, v.s. (4) ⁂ Includes six letters from Bacon.
Bacon (Sir Francis) Letters...Written During the Reign of King James the First, final errata / advertisement f., title with short repaired tear at head and some foxing, new endpapers, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, corners repaired, [Gibson 245], Printed for Benj. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, 1702 § Shaw (Peter) The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, 3 vol., occasional spotting, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked in modern calf, [Gibson 250], Printed for J.J. and P. Knapton [&c.], 1733; and a small quantity of others, editions of the works or letters and works about Bacon, v.s. (Sm.Qty.)
COLLECTION OF NINE CARAT GOLD JEWELLERY comprising: gold nugget pendant set with a brilliant-cut diamond on a fine back chain, pendant hallmarked London indistinctly, CKM maker's mark, length approximately 680mm; a carved hinged bangle, hallmarked Birmingham, PPLtd maker's mark, import marks; a fancy gate link bracelet with padlock fitting, also hallmarked Birmingham, PPLtd maker's mark, import marks 13gr, 16gr, 12gr respectively (3)
*Marc Chagall (French/Russian, 1887-1985)PLIOUCHKINE À LA PORTE (PLYUSHKIN AT THE PADLOCKED GATE)Etching, 1923-27, from the book 'Dead Souls' by Nikolai Gogol, plate XL, the edition was 368, published in 1948 by Tériade, Paris, on wove paper, with full marginsplate 27.5 x 21cm, framed*Artist's Resale Right may apply to this lot.
After James Gillray (British, 1757-1815)A SPHERE, PROJECTING AGAINST A PLANE;CLEARING A FIVE BAR GATE;DIDO, IN DESPAIR!Three engravings printed in colours with hand colouring, 1851, from the 'Suppressed Plates', published by Henry G Bohn, after the first edition published by the artist in 1785-87, all on wove paper, with full marginsimage 27.5 x 23cm, 26.5 x 35cm and 25.5 x 37cm, framed (3)
*Edwin LaDell (British, 1919-1970)ST JOHN’S COLLEGE;CAIUS COLLEGE - GATE OF HONOUR;TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGEThree lithographs printed in colours, 1963, two signed and all numbered from the edition of 75 in pencil, from the Oxford and Cambridge Series, on wove paper, with full marginseach overall 48.5 x 36cm, unframed (3)*Artist's Resale Right may apply to this lot.
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