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Click here to subscribeAn original retro vintage mid 20th Century industrial First Aid Box / cabinet. The kit of wooden construction with bold black lettering and glazed door panel. Opens to reveal a fitted interior with shelf and mirror. In good condition with some old paint to top. By repute from an old GPO Office. Complete with fixing mount. Measures approx; 43cm x 28cm x 16cm.
A large and impressive original retro vintage mid 20th Century upright shop display haberdashery cabinet comprising of 16x glass fronted drawers arranged into two columns over a four drawer base. Each front with metal pull handles. Some age related wear and marks with minor lifting to side panel however overall a good example in original condition. Measures approx; 197cm x 86cm x 50cm.
Victor B. Wilkins - G Plan - Fresco - A retro vintage 1970's G-Plan large teak wood headboard in the Fresco pattern having bedside tables fitted with drawers to either side raised on tapering supports with large red leather panel centre. Condition; no visible damage. Measures approx; 91cmx 260cm x 45cm.
Aidan Shingler - Beyond Reason - A late 20th Century modern art expressionist / schizophrenia piece being set within a red painted framed with glazed panel front. The piece showing a well used artists palette with tube of antiseptic cream and paint brush with white ground. This lot comes with a signed Beyond Reason book. Condition; age related wear, overall good. Measures approx; 54cm x 68cm.
A retro vintage 20th Century Danish two part wall modular hanging / mounted wall unit / cupboard shelving system. Both with rosewood veneer and shaped metal handles with one having smokey glass fronted doors and the other with blind fronted doors. Veneered panel atop with all supported / wall mounted by brackets to the back of each. Condition; age related marks, overall good. Largest measures approx; 67cm x 75cm x 30cm.
Jennings - Governor - A retro vintage 20th Century American made One Arm Bandit slot fruit / games machine having a chrome case with Tic-Tac-Toe glass panel atop. Native American bronze finial head to the front and further chrome emblements throughout with all being raised upon a oak plinth and retaining original back plate . Condition; Sold as untested pitting to the chrome throughout, overall a good example. Measures approx; 70cm x 38cm x 40cm.
Turnidge Of London - An original retro vintage 1960's high end British Design Danish Scandinavian influence teak wood bookcase cabinet / wall unit. The display unit having a central sliding glass door shelved section with having a mirrored back panel flanked by a single door cupboard tot eh right and straight bank of five. All raised upon straight leg supports united by a single stretcher. Condition; age related ware, overall good. Measures approx; 95cm x 153cm x 33cm.
An "LKpW101" Winter Flight Helmet Five panel brown leather construction, leather covered earphone mounts with a grooved lip to secure the goggle straps in place, reverse of the earphone mounts each have an external, vertical brown leather strap with a single snap closure, reverse centre of helmet has vertical attachment for the larynx microphone and electrical cord with a break coupling plug, "Mi 4b" larynx microphone, features dual, horizontal, leather, fit adjustment straps with dual pronged sheet metal buckles and two bakelite microphones with single snap closure. Retaining straps intact, label includes model designation "Lkp W. 101", equipment number "124-436-A", contract number "Ln 26618" and the manufacturer "Deutsche Telephonwerke".USA-Los: Versand aus den USA.Zustand: IIAn "LKpW101" Winter Flight Helmet Five panel brown leather construction, leather covered earphone mounts with a grooved lip to secure the goggle straps in place, reverse of the earphone mounts each have an external, vertical brown leather strap with a single snap closure, reverse centre of helmet has vertical attachment for the larynx microphone and electrical cord with a break coupling plug, "Mi 4b" larynx microphone, features dual, horizontal, leather, fit adjustment straps with dual pronged sheet metal buckles and two bakelite microphones with single snap closure. Retaining straps intact, label includes model designation "Lkp W. 101", equipment number "124-436-A", contract number "Ln 26618" and the manufacturer "Deutsche Telephonwerke".USA-Lot: Shipping from the USA.Condition: II
An "LKpS101" Summer Flight Helmet Five panel brown linen fabric, leather covered earphone mounts with a grooved lip to secure the goggle straps in place. Reverse centre of helmet has vertical attachment for the larynx microphone and electrical cord with a break coupling plug, "Mi 4b" larynx microphone. Label includes model designation, "Lkp S 101", equipment number "124-436-B", contract number "Ln 26617", manufacturer "Siemens" and is size stamped "57".USA-Los: Versand aus den USA.Zustand: I -An "LKpS101" Summer Flight Helmet Five panel brown linen fabric, leather covered earphone mounts with a grooved lip to secure the goggle straps in place. Reverse centre of helmet has vertical attachment for the larynx microphone and electrical cord with a break coupling plug, "Mi 4b" larynx microphone. Label includes model designation, "Lkp S 101", equipment number "124-436-B", contract number "Ln 26617", manufacturer "Siemens" and is size stamped "57".USA-Lot: Shipping from the USA.Condition: I -
Full title: A Chinese gold-thread embroidered silk 'dragon' panel, 19th C.Description: Dim.: 111 x 40 cm (the frame)Dim.: 95 x 23,5 cm (the work)Information concerning condition reports:The absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition. Please contact us to let us know which lots are of interest, so we can make the requested reports for you.Once complete, they will be published on our website.High resolution pictures are already available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
Full title: A Chinese gold-thread embroidered silk panel, 19th C.Description: Dim.: 153 x 65,5 cm (the frame)Dim.: 147 x 60 cm (the embroidery)Information concerning condition reports:The absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition. Please contact us to let us know which lots are of interest, so we can make the requested reports for you.Once complete, they will be published on our website.High resolution pictures are already available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
Full title: A large Chinese horizontal embroidered red-ground textile panel, 19th C.Description: Dim.: approx. 350 x 96 cmInformation concerning condition reports:The absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition. Please contact us to let us know which lots are of interest, so we can make the requested reports for you.Once complete, they will be published on our website.High resolution pictures are already available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
Kfz. 70 "Krupp-Protze" (Kfz. 81?) Geländegängiger Sechsrad-Lastkraftwagen mit Hinterradantrieb (6 x 4) in der Ausführung L 2 H 143 = (L)astwagen mit (2) Tonnen Nutzlast, (H)ochrahmen in der (1). Modifizierung mit (4)-Zylindermotor und (3) Achsen. Baujahr 1941 mit dem 3,5l Vierzylinder Boxermotor (Benzin) des Typs Krupp M 304 in der von 1936 bis 1942 verbauten Version mit 60 PS. Die Motoren des Typs M30x wurden wegen ihrer Zuverlässigkeit auch im Panzer 1 verbaut. Diese Ausführung der Protze verfügt sowohl über Merkmale des Mannschaftskraftwagens (Kfz. 70) wie auch des Leichten Flakkraftwagens (Kfz. 81). Zum einen ist das Fahrzeug ausgerüstet für die motorisierte MG-Gruppe einer Schützenkompanie, mit Halterung für das MG 34 an der Fahrerrückwand inkl. Deko-MG 34 (Vollmetallmodell, keine Waffe), einer Flugabwehrlafette mit zweifacher Gewindebefestigung im Boden des Mannschaftsabteils für ein MG 34 oder 42, sowie zahlreichen MG-Munitionskisten, Wechsellaufbehälter und drei 98k Gewehrbefestigungen inkl. drei 98k (Modelle, keine Waffen) im Heck. Zum anderen verfügt das Fahrzeug über zusätzliche Staufächer für Flakzubehör, wie sie für die Ausführung Kfz. 81 typisch sind. Die Protze wurde vor Jahrzehnten professionell und auf sehr guter Basis mit fast allen originalen Blechteilen restauriert und mit den taktischen Zeichen der Division "Großdeutschland" versehen. Das Verdeck wurde von einem Sattler nach den Originalschnitten aus passenden Stoffen mit Metallösen, Lederlaschen und Klarsichtfenstern rekonstruiert und an das Fahrzeug angepaßt. Sie ist bereits für eine Zulassung im deutschen Straßenverkehr vorbereitet und in diesem fahrbereiten Zustand so nicht mehr zu finden.Zustand: IIA military truck Mod. 70 by Krupp, Germany, 1941 (Kfz. 81?) All-terrain, six-wheel truck and artillery tractor with rear-wheel drive (6 x 4) in the configuration L 2 H 143 = truck with a payload of (2) tons, backbone frame in the (1)st modification with a (4) cylinder engine and (3) axles. Manufactured in 1941 with the 3.5 l four-cylinder boxer engine (petrol), type Krupp M 304 in the 60 horsepower version, as built from 1936 to 1942. The extremely reliable M30x type engines were also used in the Panzer 1. This Protze version features elements of both a Kfz. 70 and a Kfz. 81. On one hand it is designed as a personnel carrier (Kfz. 70) and thus equipped for the motorised machine-gun group of a rifle company, i.e. an MG 34 support mounted on the panel behind the driver, including a replica MG 34 (an all-metal model, not a deactivated firearm), an air defence carriage for an MG 34 or 42 with a double threaded mount on the floor of the passenger compartment and numerous MG ammunition boxes, containers for exchangeable barrels and three 98k mounts including three 98k rifles (models, not weapons) in the rear of the vehicle. On the other hand the truck features additional storage compartments for anti-aircraft gun accessories, as typically seen on a Kfz. 81. The Protze was professionally restored several decades ago with a very good basis and almost all original metal parts, adding the tactical markings of the "Großdeutschland" division. The convertible top was reconstructed by a saddler according to the original designs and custom-made for the vehicle in matching materials with metal rings, leather flaps and transparent windows. Preparations have been made to approve the vehicle for use on German roads. This kind of truck in such an excellent, roadworthy condition is absolutely unique!Condition: II
NO RESERVE Mann (Thomas) Dieser Friede, Stockholm, 1938 § Hewlett (Maurice) The Little Iliad, coloured plates by Philip Burne-Jones, wrappers toned and creased, 1915 § Koestler (Arthur) Arrival and Departure, jacket marked with short tear to upper panel, 1943 § Wells (H. G.) You Can't Be Too Careful, 1941 § Tarkington (Booth) The Fascinating Stranger, 1923, first editions, occasional light scattered spotting, first original wrappers, others original cloth or boards, dust-jackets, light bumping and creasing to extremities, ; and c. 55 others, literature, v.s. (c.60)
Peters (Ellis) Mourning Raga, presentation inscription from the author to title, 1990; Death Mask, 1959; Death to the Landlords, 1972; Never Pick Up Hitch-Hikers!, 1976, few with very light scattered spots or browning to endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, second with short tear to upper panel and and chips to extremities, lower panel damp-stained, others in excellent condition; and 14 others by Peters, 8vo (18)
NO RESERVE Ransome (Arthur) The Big Six, London and Toronto, 1940 § Williams (Ursula Moray) Hobbie, presentation inscription from the author with sketch to front free endpaper, 1958, first editions, illustrations, original cloth, first spine lightly faded, dust-jackets, extremities chipped and frayed, first with small portion of loss to spine head and tear along upper panel; and c.55 others, children's literature, v.s. (c.60)
ERASMUS (DESIDERIUS)Moriae encomium nunc postremum ab ipso autore religiose recognitum, una cum aliis aliquot libellis, first three pages within woodcut borders (the first signed 'IF', i.e. Jakob Faber), woodcut initials, large woodcut printer's device on final verso, light dampstaining to lower margin of opening 30 leaves, slightly heavier dampstain to approximately 20 leaves at end, contemporary Flemish panel-stamped calf, the sides each with small panels of animals/birds and frieze of dogs and a porcupine surrounded by legends ('O[mn]ias si perdas/fama[m] savare memento/qua semel/amissa nul]la revisio erit'; 'De profundis/clamavi ad te domine/domine/exaudi vocem meam', rebacked using a seventeenth century manuscript on vellum, old paper spine label, pastedowns made of a fourteenth century manuscript of Comester's 'Historia scholastica', vellum waste visible at hinges, joints slightly weakened [Adams E396; USTC 676454], 8vo, Basle, [Froben], [July], 1522Footnotes:Early edition of Erasmus's Praise of Folly in a contemporary Flemish panel-stamped binding, using binder's waste of a fourteenth century manuscript on vellum pastedowns. This edition includes the commentary attributed to Gerhard Lister, Erasmus's supplementary Epistola apologetica ad Martinum Dorpium, Seneca's satire on the Emperor Claudius, and Synesius of Cyrene's praise of baldness. The binding is illustrated in Janet E. Scinto, 'The Panel Stamp in Early Modern Bindings', Library Quarterly, vol. 85, no. 1, University of Chicago, 2015.Provenance: Franciscan monastic inscription dated 1638 on title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SMITH (PHILIP)MEYERSON (SIMON) Fungus and Curmudgeonly, the first play of a quartet... designed, illustrated and produced by Natalia d'Arbeloff, NUMBER 2 OF 10 COPIES FOR DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS, from an overall edition of 50 copies signed by the author and illustrator, etched illustrations (some double-page), calligraphic text by Sally Johnson printed in red and black, typed 'Artist's Notes' signed by Philip Smith tipped-in at rear, blindstamped black buckram, patterned endpapers, housed in a specially designed sculpted black morocco box created in 1983-1984 by Philip Smith, with brown and grey onlays and maril, removeable side and top panel which detaches to reveal felt-lined slots for the cassette, Sony cassette recorder and printed instruction booklet, the top with leather-covered head and shoulder sculpted figures representing an audience, the front with circular cut out of a waste pipe leaking sewage and showing the cassette speaker behind, the rear with typewriter ribbon case whose cap pulls off to reveal a landscape in maril, binder's blindstamp on ribbon cap and detachable flap, book 313 x 135mm., overall structure 380 x 160mm., Natalia d'Arbeloff Press, 1980This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Smith (Philip)[Lap-back binding], first finished prototype, blank paper leaves with 6 pages of binder's typed notes tipped-in at beginning, inscribed at rear 'This first model made in Nov-Dec 1992, Philip Smith', bound in morocco with multi-coloured design including maril and painted onlays and above a textured triangular panel with an embossed female figure, open lap-back spine painted red, 177 x 145mm., 1992; together with an unfinished Lap-back model (covers unadorned), a 1979 prototype for a small single-hinge perspex binding ('See-Hear' design with eye and ear illustration on front), a box of finishing tools, a small tin containing 'Handle tools cut by Philip Smith' and a brass embossing plate (quantity)Footnotes:Philip Smith's first completed model using his patented Lap-Back binding style. 'The idea was that the boards could be used to protect the spine rather than have a spine lining or covering as in the conventional historic precedents'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ELY (TIMOTHY C.)Missing Diagrams, ORIGINAL ARTIST'S MANUSCRIPT BOOK, 14 hand-made pink paper leaves, illustrated throughout in ink and mixed media with multi-coloured imaginary maps and charts, indecipherable hieroglyphics, 'cribriform' glyphs, diagrams, symbols and graphs, mathematical formulae, notations and other imagery, signed in pencil by the artist on the title-page, original two-tone pigskin decorated with diagrams and symbols, each cover with central sunken textured panel containing painted particles of soil from Philip Smith's garden and 3 large raised squares with onlaid symbolic shapes, hand-painted endpapers and fly-leaves, housed in linen tray with hand-painted illustration and illustrated cloth slipcase, large 4to (322 x 300mm.), 1989Footnotes:Timothy C. Ely (born 9 February 1949), American painter, graphic artist and master bookbinder, is renowned for creating and binding unique artist's books as multi-sensory objects. Often, as here, they are annotated with his own 'cribriform' glyphs.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SCHULZ (CHARLES)Original four-panel Peanuts comic strip, featuring Sally Brown writing a report on Charles Dickens, pen and ink on paper, light blue pencil and spot of white correcting fluid to three letters, signed 'Schulz' far right panel and dated '4-8' in third panel with '1983 United Feature Syndicate, Inc.' label pasted above, light overall toning, mounted, framed and glazed, image to view 150 x 555mm., [1983]Footnotes:The strip depicts Sally Brown, Charlie's little sister, writing a report on Dickens: 'I did not know Charles Dickens personally... If I had known him personally, I would not be here now and would not be writing this report'. In the third panel Sally re-reads her report, in the fourth she tosses the scrumpled up paper over her shoulder.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BINDING - DELRUEYOUNG (PERCY M.) Elgar O.M. A Study of a Musician, plates, bound in olive green crushed morocco by Paul Delrue (inscription dated 1973 on fly-leaf), covers with all-over design of small inlaid red flying birds and 'Elgar' in large onlaid letters of stained leather, russet morocco paste-downs with quotations from Elgar in blind, g.e., housed in green cloth solander box, spine lettered in gilt on leather label, 8vo, Book Club Edition, 1973--Bestiary, being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford M.S. Bodley 764 with all the original miniatures reproduced in facsimile, translated and introduced by Richard Barber, colour illustrations, red morocco by D. Gatley, with an inlaid design of a rhinoceros spanning both covers, gilt lettering on the upper cover, the 'B' on a blue morocco onlay, t.e.g., blue cloth solander box, small folio, Folio Society, 1992--LAWRENCE (T.E.) The Mint, olive green morocco with design of inlaid small panels in khaki, white and brown leather, those on low cover in dark brown and joining to form a single larger panel, gilt-lettered spine, slipcase, 4to, Jonathan Cape, 1955 (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • AR• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.AR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BINDINGRubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, decorative title and text borders throughout, mounted colour plates, finely bound in dark purple inlaid morocco [by 'Carter'], upper cover elaborately panelled with all-over floral design of multi-coloured inlaid leather, lower cover with repeated outer borders enclosing central undecorated purple morocco panel, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, one compartment lettered in gilt, the others with floral inlaid leather design, morocco turn-ins, with an original pencil sketch for the binding inserted, small 8vo (162 x 120mm.), George G. Harrap, [c.1910]Footnotes:A loosely inserted typed note states that the binding is by Carter, who was the binder of some of the miniature books in the Library of the Queen's Doll's House. These were mostly supplied by the likes of Sangorski & Sutcliffe and Zaehnsdorf, for whom Carter might have worked.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHELONIIDAE PRESSBLOCK (LAURIE, compiler) An Odd Bestiary; or, a Compendium of Instructive and Entertaining Descriptions of Animals.... Arranged as an Abecedary. Designed and Illustrated by Alan James Robinson, NUMBER XLV of 50 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, with an additional suite of the 52 illustrations by Alan James Robinson, each signed in pencil, the alphabet series of 26 with a calligraphic letter in red ink added by Betse Curtis (these also signed by her in pencil), from an edition limited to 300 copies, 26 wood-engravings and 26 smaller initial linecuts, original red morocco by David Bourbeau at Thistle Bindery, upper cover with blind-ruled panel enclosing a turtle vignette lettered 'ABC', the additional suite loose in red morocco-backed linen chemise and housed with text in matching solander box, folio (343 x 250mm.), Easthampton, Cheloniidae Press, 1982This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PHOTOGRAPHYHILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS) AND ROBERT ADAMSON. Collection of 49 portraits, groups and landscapes (2) by Hill and Adamson printed by Jessie Bertram, carbon prints, mounted on card (recto only), within border ruled in brown ink, many titled and numbered in pencil below, several with pencil annotations in a later hand on verso, a few with light spotting to mounts (one mount toned), housed in a contemporary wooden box with hinged opening front panel and lid, printed paper label pasted inside lid 'J. Bertram, Platinotype and Carbon printer, 148 Rose Street, Edinburgh', the images approximately 205 x 160mm.), the card mounts approximately 995 x 265mm., [1840s, but printed later]Footnotes:A fine group of carbon prints from the original negatives of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson's celebrated portraits of Scottish women (including Newhaven groups), men and children, mostly taken between 1843 and 1847.These photographic carbon prints were printed by Edinburgh photographer Jessie Bertram (1881–1954) from Hill and Adamson's original negatives. Selections of her works were issued by Andrew Elliot in 1916. They are held in a wooden box, with Bertram's printed label attached. Found with the box is a passport photograph of a middle-aged woman, signed 'Jessie Bertram' on the verso and assumed to be her.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHTSWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES) Laus Veneris... Engravings by John Buckland Wright, NUMBER 39 OF 100 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES WITH AN EXTRA ENGRAVING, from an overall edition limited to 750, 12 wood-engraved illustrations (some full-page), original russet morocco, upper cover with gilt figures of woman and kneeling man by JBW on central black morocco panel, spine lettered in gilt on black morocco label, t.e.g., others uncut, a few light spots on covers, tall 8vo, Golden Cockerel Press, 1948This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHTCABELL (JAMES BRANCH) Jurgen. A Comedy of Justice... with Wood Engravings by John Buckland Wright, NUMBER 17 OF 100 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES WITH AN EXTRA ILLUSTRATION, wood-engraved frontispiece, title-page and 15 plates, untrimmed in original red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, sides with large inlaid purple morocco panel containing gilt blocked figure after Buckland Wright, gilt lettered spine with small cockerel within raised bands, t.e.g., morocco turn-ins, spine slightly faded and with small water stain, red buckram slipcase, large 8vo, Golden Cockerel Press, 1949Footnotes:'I was delighted with the result. It was just what I wanted for this fond, lush, fantastic tale' (Christopher Sandford, Cock-a-Hoop, no. 182), writing of the Sangorski binding.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GREGYNOG PRESSMILTON (JOHN) Comus. A Mask, NUMBER 18 OF 25 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, INSCRIBED BY THE DAVIES SISTERS TO LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE on the front free endpaper ('To Professor Lascelles Abercrombie to remind him of the Second Festival of Music & Poetry at Gregynog. June 15-18. 1934. From Gwendoline P. Davies/ Margaret S. Davies'), from an edition limited to 250, printed on japanese vellum, wood-engraved frontispiece, title-vignette and 6 illustrations of characters by Blair Hughes-Stanton (all but one full-page), original dun-coloured morocco after a design by Hughes-Stanton, bound by George Fisher at the Gregynog Bindery (signed with the three names on front and rear turn-ins), covers with wide side panels consisting of multiple gilt and blind rules, one containing blind lettered title panel, spine gilt in compartments with raised bands, matching morocco turn-ins, t.e.g., housed in sympathetically designed brown morocco-backed solander box by Delrue (signed on inside), decorated with blind rules, spine with 2 bands and titled in blind, small folio, Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1931; together with a solander box containing a selection of 1930s Gregynog Festival Programmes and Orders of Service (including those for 1933 and 1934) (2)Footnotes:FINE SPECIALLY BOUND COPY, INSCRIBED BY 'THE LADIES OF GREGYNOG' IN MEMORY OF THE FESTIVAL 0F 1934. Founded by the Davies sisters in 1933, the Gregynog Festival is Wales' oldest classical music festival. In its second year, with Lascelles Abercrombie as guest, excerpts from The Apostles, The Dream of Gerontius and Nimrod were performed to mark the death of Elgar the previous February, whilst the programme for the event noted that 'contributions in aid of the unemployed will be accepted at the door'. The Press was to go on to publish Abercrombie's Lyrics and Unfinished Poems in 1940, a copy of the prospectus for which is included in the lot.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
RUSKIN (JOHN)Autograph manuscript leaf from Ruskin's work on Giorgione and Turner, The Two Boyhoods, vol.V, part 9, chapter 9, numbered 'L' and beginning 'the mother for the children – desolate by the breathless first born in the streets of the city...' and ending '...He was nine years old when Napoleon came down on Marengo. Look on the map of...', with many annotations and amendments, written on recto only, docketed on verso in another hand ('Ruskin's Ms'), 1 page, on blue lined paper with Britannia watermark, folded and creased with some dust staining, large 4to (272 x 195mm.), [undated]; with an incomplete autograph letter from Ruskin to Peter Bayne ('Dear Mr Bayne'), responding to an ongoing conversation about freedom and logic ('...Freedom is either of mind or body, that of the mind is infinitely the most precious of the two... You have puzzled yourself – not by looking at the subject from an opposite side – but by not looking at it from the top: – meditate on this...'), 4 pages on a bifolium, creased where folded for posting, slightly stained, remains of guard, 8vo (180 x 115mm.), [no place, no date]; and an autograph letter by Ruskin's father signed ('John James Ruskin') to Peter Bayne ('My dear Sir'), an angry letter complaining of the publication of a letter by his son in '...a penny paper called the Scotsman...', which has caused him great trouble ('...my Nerves got unstrung... they are lacerated by trifles & the incoherent & indecorous letter of my Son has given me a night of suffering & severe Bilious attack... he set up as a Teacher & moralist & the mischief one Letter light, flippant, indiscreet injudicious can do is incalculable...') and asking for the return of a letter published in Witness, 3 pages on a bifolium, with integral address panel, remains of red wax seal, creased where folded, some spotting, marks and dust staining, loss where seal opened not affecting text, remains of guard, 4to (240 x 200mm.), Schaffhausen, 31 July 1859Footnotes:The controversial letters to which John James Ruskin refers would appear to be those mentioned by John Ruskin in a letter to Robert Browning and his wife on 11 December 1859 in which he writes 'I wrote three letters to one of the Edinburgh papers whose editor I knew concerning European—especially English political conduct...Two of them were printed—after much delay. The third was declared by the able editor unprintable—'it would lose him a hundred subscribers next morning.'...The two that were printed bore some bold witness however, and I am glad to be able to refer to them—as fearless words—whether wise or unwise...'. They appeared in The Daily Scotsman on the 20 July under the heading 'Mr Ruskin and the Italian Question' and on 22 July headed 'Mr Ruskin on Foreign Politics' – they were apparently originally sent to The Witness whose editor was one Peter Bayne (see The Brownings' Correspondence, 27, 75-76). On the same day his father wrote to Bayne, Ruskin wrote, also from Schaffhausen, to Charles Eliot Norton on the 'dastardly conduct of England in this Italian War' (Ruskin Letters, p.311).A note included in the lot confirms that a group of forty to fifty letters from the Ruskins to Bayne ('...there was a long continued but often interrupted friendship...') were sold by Bayne's granddaughter Eleanor. This would appear to be the group sold by Christie's on 19 November 1958, lot 162, and now held in the John Rylands Library in Manchester (GB 133 Eng.Ms 1245). The letters from John James date from just before ours (January to March 1859), those from John Ruskin cover a wider period from March 1855 to March 1887. Our letters are apparently unpublished.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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