BINDING - NAVAL & MILITARY'An Establishment of the Numbers of Men & of ye Numbers & Natures of the Guns Fitt to be Made & Confirmed upon Every of his Ma:ts Ships according to the Opinion of the Principall Officers & Com:rs of the Navy, Humbly Presented by them to ye Lords Com:rs for Executing ye Office of Lord High Admirall', 17pp., with tables detailing the navy's ships, their dimensions, numbers of men (either 'Abroad', 'At Home' or during 'Peace'), numbers and types of guns, weights of ordnance, and when, where and by whom the ships were built, [c.1680]; 'An Establishment of all our Guards Garrisons & Land Forces of this our Kingdome of England in our Pay & Enterteynment to Commence ye. 7.th of March 1673/4', providing a breakdown of the daily, monthly and annual payments and allowances to be made by the 'Paymaster Gennerall' to the officers, men and officials of the various army garrisons in the country, 26pp., [c.1676], 2 parts in 1 vol., manuscript in ink, written in a neat clerical hand, ruled in red, with two stiff erasable WRITING TABLES and other blank leaves at end, FINELY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY BLACK MOROCCO GILT, possibly by William Cox, the sides richly tooled with floral and wavy line borders enclosing tulips and other floral tools together with elaborate central panel comprising 4 corner-pieces and centrepiece composed of interweaving drawer-handle tools, and incorporating 5 'ship' shapes (one at centre, 4 emanating from panel), gilt panelled spine with 6 floral pattern compartments, raised bands, turn-ins gilt, g.e., tall oblong 8vo (125 x 210mm.), [c.1676-1680]Footnotes:A FINE RESTORATION BINDING CONTAINING A VALUABLE RECORD OF NAVAL AND MILITARY FORCES. This attractive volume is divided into naval and land sections, and was presumably produced for an unnamed high-ranking official. The naval content would have proved invaluable to Samuel Pepys at a time of a great expansion in the number of ships. Having resigned as Secretary of the Admiralty in 1679, and survived his imprisonment in the Tower on trumped up charges of treason, Pepys was seeking to rebuild his reputation and re-establish himself in the Navy. Two years after the latest date found in the present volume (1682), he returned from an official voyage to Tangier and was appointed King's Secretary for the affairs of the Admiralty.The first ship listed in the volume is the famous Sovereign of the Seas, renamed Royal Sovereign by Charles II following her rebuild at Chatham in 1660 as a first-rate ship of the line. Here we find confirmation that she was built at Woolwich in 1637 by 'Capt. Pett'son' [Peter Pett, Master Shipwright, son of the King's Master Shipwright Captain Phineas Pett], and that she had 815 men and 100 guns when 'At home', 710 and 90 respectively when 'Abroad', and 605 and 90 when at 'Peace'.Pepys is known to have owned several fine bindings produced by the Naval Binder, to whose work our binding bears strong similarities, and this is possibly the work of a successor, also attached to the Admiralty (H.M. Nixon, English Restoration Bindings, 1974, p.37). The style also bears some similarities to a 1684 William Cox binding described and illustrated by Mirjam Foot in Studies in the History of Bookbinding (no 27, p.202-3).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
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Francis Whellan & Co., History, Topography and Directory of Northamptonshire, second edition, London 1874; and The Beauties of England and Wales: Northamptonshire [volume XI 1809] both rebound, marbled boards;John Brown, The Self-Interpreting Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, new edition, in two vols, Bungay, 1810, 4to, calf, defective; and Charles Knight, Old England: A Pictorial Museum, in two vols, bound as one; and Daniel Whitby, A Paraphrase and Commentary on the New Testament, sixth edition, in two vols, London 1764, folio calf;Sarah Tytler, The Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen, in two vols, [circa.1880], original cloth; Winston S Churchill, History of the English Speaking Peoples, in seven volumes, Purnell for BPC Publishing Limited, together with biographical gallery; and Diary of Samuel Pepys, a new and complete transcription, 1971, eleven vols.Qty: 7 and a box
Richard Lord Braybrooke, Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Secretary to The Admiralty in The Reigns of Charles II and James II comprising His Diary from 1659 to 1669......, 1828, second edition in five volumes, Henry Colburn, London, leather spines and corners with gilt titles, marbled outer boards (5)
FOLLOWER OF GILBERT JACKSONPORTRAIT OF JAMES BOEVEY, AGED 11, FULL LENGTH IN A GREEN DOUBLET AND HOSE, HOLDING A GLOVE, BY A TABLE WITH AN OPEN BOOK IN A CURTAINED INTERIOROil on canvas (in an 18th century frame)Dated 'AN.O DOM: 1634/AETATIS SUAE II' with identifying inscription146 x 99cm (57¼ x 38¾ in.) Provenance: Possibly commissioned by Andreas Boevey (1566-1625), and by descent at Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire, until sold Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire: Catalogue of the Valuable Contents, Bruton, Knowles & Co., 29 March - 5 April 1960, lot 1295Bought by Mr and Mrs Frederick Baden-Watkins and thence by descent at Flaxley AbbeyLiterature:Compiled by: Arthur W. Crawley-Boevey, 'The Perverse Widow': Being Passages from the Life of Catharina, wife of William Boevey, Esq., London, 1898, p. 37. Arthur W. Crawley-Boevey, A Brief Account of the Antiquities, Family Pictures and Other Notable Articles at Flaxley Abbey, co. Gloucester, Bristol, 1912, pp. 11-12, no. 2. J. Lees-Milne, 'Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire - III: The Home of Mr. and Mrs. F.B. Watkins', Country Life, 12 April 1973, p. 982, fig. 5, The Morning Room. This full-length painting is a companion piece to lot 51, Joanna Boevey (1605-64), aged 11, daughter of Andreas Boevey (1566-1625) and his first wife, Esther Fenne. This portrait probably depicts James Boevey (1622-96), Joanna's half-brother, son of Andreas and his second wife, Joanna (née de Wilde). The two portraits were probably painted to mark the children's coming of age when they were eleven. James, merchant and philosopher, was, in later life, only five feet tall, 'slenderly built with extremely black hair curled at the ends, an equally black beard, and the darkest of eyebrows hovering above dark but sprightly hazel eyes' (com accessed 14 June 2022). His early career was as a 'cashier' for the banker Dierik Hoste, and for the Spanish ambassador in London, while in the employ of the Dutch financier Sir William Courten. A known figure in Restoration London, Samuel Pepys described him as: 'a solicitor and a lawyer and a merchant altogether who hath travelled very much; did talk some things well, only he is a Sir Positive; but talk of travel over the Alps very fine' (Pepys, 9.206). Although his writings on 'Active Philosophy' were never published, they circulated widely amongst his friends and acquaintances. In 1642, James Boevey and his half-brother, William, made a joint-purchase of Flaxley Abbey. In 1912, it was argued that the painting was in fact a portrait of Abraham Clarke the Younger rather than James Boevey (A.W. Crawley-Boevey, A Brief Account of the Antiquities, Family Pictures and Other Notable Articles at Flaxley Abbey, co. Gloucester, Bristol, 1912, pp. 11-12, no. 2). This was based on a discrepancy between the date of the painting and the age of the sitter - in 1634, Joanna Clarke's son (née Boevey), Abraham the Younger, born in 1623, was aged 11 while his uncle and Joanna's half-brother, James, born in 1622, would have been 12 years old when the portrait was painted. In the 'old Flaxley List', the painting was recorded as 'Mr. Clarke' and attributed to Van Dyck. However, in retrospect, it seems more likely that Andreas Boevey would have commissioned a portrait of his children, Joanna and James. The Van Dyck attribution seems unlikely if he is to be credited with the companion portrait of Joanna, painted in 1616, as Van Dyck did not arrive in England until 1620 (ibid.). A 19th-century copy of this portrait was painted and published in Crawley-Boevey, A.W.C., The Perverse Widow, Being Passages from the Life of Catharina, Wife of William Boevey, 1898, p. 34. Condition Report: Overall in good condition. Canvas has been relined and mounted on a later stretcher, providing good support. A layer of surface dirt and discolouration of the varnish. A few areas of very fine craquelure. Some abrasions around the edges from contact with the frame. Condition Report Disclaimer
BOOKS, four boxes containing seventy FOLIO SOCIETY publications, fifty in hardback format and twenty in paperback format, to include sixteen titles by Charles Dickens, three volumes of Pepys Diaries, two volumes of The Life of Samuel Johnson, three Anthony Trollope titles, seven works by the Bronte's, The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer, the other authors include Cervantes, Swift, Thomas Hardy, Henry Fielding, John Bunyan, Conan Doyle, Robert Byron and others, the paperback titles are all from French authors book conditions generally vg.
Pepys (Samuel) The Diary, edited by Henry B. Wheatley, 10 vol. including Pepysiana and Index vol., no. 62 of 250 Large Paper copies, engraved plates, tissue-guards, the odd spot, contemporary crushed green half morocco gilt by Hatchards, spines gilt in compartments, spines uniformly faded, some slight rubbing to extremities, t.e.g. others uncut, large 8vo, 1893-99.
Folio Society: EF Benson 6 vol. set, Pepys 3 vol. set and 32 other Folio Society volumes (41)/Provenance: The Estate of Anthony J Beeson CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection
Two boxes of miscellaneous books, including novels: David Copperfield, The Dairy of Samuel Pepys, Life of Samuel Johnson, and Don Quixote, and non-fiction: The Origins of Species, The Count of Monte Cristo, Dear Friend and Gardener, Birds, Trees and Flowers, Fact Finder, The Golden Wonder Book, and The Marvels and Mysteries of Science.
A GEORGE III SILVER SHAPED CIRCULAR SALVERRICHARD RUGG, LONDON 1767With a shaped gadrooned border, engraved with an armorial and on four volute scroll feet41cm diameter1653g (approximately 53.1 oz)Provenance:Barnwell Manor, NorthamptonshireWindsor House AntiquesCondition Report: As far as we are aware this is not part of a set, there are no numbers to indicate thisMarks are clearEngraving is crisp, appears to have been let in. Later engraved. Centre is thin and whippySurface pushed up/creased left of the engravingWobbles, one foot possibly resolderedLight scratches and wear commensurate with age and use These are the impaled arms of Samuel Pepys COCKERELL (1753-1827) second son of John COCKERELL (born 1715) of Bishop's Hull Somerset by Frances JACKSON (1722-1769) of Clapham. In 1782 he married Anne WHETHAM (1755-1834) whose family origin is Kirklington Nottinghamshire, and with her had eleven children. Samuel Pepys COCKERELL was an architect of some acclaim having be appointed surveyor to the parish of St George Hanover Square, the Bayswater area, the Admiralty, the East India Company, St Pauls Cathedral and more. He designed and built Sezincote House and Daylesford House in Gloucestershire and Middleton Hall Carmarthenshire, all buildings of historical significance. He also served a term as Clerk of Works at the Tower of London. Through his mother he was the great-great nephew of the diarist Samuel Pepys . Notably he and his brothers had connection to and worked with the East India Company. These arms were engraved on the item at some date after 1782, the date of his marriage, and some years after the assay of 1767. Blazon: or, a leopards face between two cocks, between two flaunches gules (Cockerell). - impaling - argent, a cross sable (Whetham). Condition Report Disclaimer
A PAIR OF GEORGE IV SILVER SHAPED OVAL SAUCE TUREENS AND COVERSROBERT HENNELL, LONDON 1817With foliate loop handles to the ogee domed covers, gadrooned borders with shells at intervals engraved with the crest for Pepys-Cockerell, on four foliate and lion paw feet 21.5cm long1817g (approximately 58.4 oz)Provenance:Barnwell Manor, NorthamptonshireWindsor House AntiquesCondition Report: Marks are clear to bothCovers sit wellOne slightly wobbles, the other goodCrests and armorials crispPlay to the handlesLight scratches and wear commensurate with age and useIn our opinion these are sauce tureens due to their size Condition Report Disclaimer
NO RESERVE Walpole (Horace) Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third, 2 engraved plates, contemporary calf, quite rubbed, for J. Dodsley, 1768 § Pepys (Samuel) Memoirs of...comprising His Diary from 1659 to 1669...and a selection from his Private Correspondence, 5 vol., second edition, engraved plates, vol. 1 with ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper and head of title, contemporary polished tree calf, lightly rubbed, vol. 1 with covers detached, vol. 3 with upper cover detached, a few joints split at head and foot, 1828, offsetting, occasional spotting, gilt; with another on The Battle of Waterloo, 4to & 8vo (7)
Disraeli (Benjamin) The Novels and Tales, 12 vol., the "Bradenham Edition", engraved bookplate to pictorial endpapers, original cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, spines lightly bumped but overall a very attractive set, Peter Davies, 1926 § Scott (Sir Walter) [The Works], 25 vol., the "Victoria Edition", endpapers browned, original blind-stamped cloth, light fading to spines, very light marks to some covers, 1897; and an 11 vol. set of Samuel Pepys' Diary from 1971, together very attractive library sets, 8vo.
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NO RESERVE Bindings.- Pepys (Samuel) The Diary of ..., 10 vol., edited by Henry B. Wheatley, frontispieces, plates, occasional faint marginal staining, contemporary half-morocco, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1893-1900 § Morris (Rev. F. O.) A Natural History of British Moths, 4 vol., hand-coloured plates, scattered spotting, previous owner's pencil signature to titles, contemporary half-morocco, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1861-70 § Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 8 vol., engraved frontispiece, folding maps, some linen-backed, bookplate, later half-morocco, lightly sunned spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1862; and others similar, v.s. (85)
NO RESERVE Bindings.- Wells (H.G.) The World of William Clissold, 3 vol., limited edition signed by author, faint spotting to endpapers, original vellum-backed boards, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1926 § Pepys (Samuel) Memoirs of ... Comprising His Diary, 4 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, plates, bookplates, scattered spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt, 1828 § Lardner (Dionysius) The Museum of Science & Art, 12 vol. bound in 6, illustrations, scattered spotting, contemporary half-morocco, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1859 § Burns (Robert) The Works ..., 4 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, scattered spotting, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1813; and others, including occasional odd or incomplete volumes, v.s. (c.90).
Follower of Thomas Gainsborough. Portrait of Mrs. John Cockerell, née Frances Jackson, great niece of Samuel Pepys, diarist, and wife of John Cockerell, son of John Cockerell Esq., of Bishop's Hull, Taunton, Somerset. Half-length, seated, in a white gown, a landscape beyond, an old paper backing with inscriptions verso, oil on canvas, 74x51cm
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[Antiquarian] Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary to The Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II comprising His Diary from 1659 to 1669 ...and a selection from his Private Correspondence, edited by Richard Lord Braybrooke, published Henry Colburn 1825 in 2 folio volumes first edition with engraved plates leather backed boards (spines worn). A History of The Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland by William Cobbett, published by The Author 1829 in 2 volumes bound in half leather (worn). Letters of Lady Rachel Russell from the Manuscript in the Library at Wooburn Abbey…to which is Added The Trial of Lord William Russell for High Treason printed for C. Dilly 1793 fifth edition with two engraved portraits, bound in polished tree calf with gilt spine. English Surnames An Essay of Family Nomenclature with Several Illustrative Appendices by Mark Antony Lower 1849 in 2 volumes third edition enlarged bound in original cloth (7)
Samuel Pepys Diary and Correspondence with a Life and Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke published for Henry Colburn 1854 the fifth edition in 4 volumes with plate in each volume and folding facs of handwriting bound in gilt lettered cloth. Henry Fielding The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling printed for A. Millar 1749 in 3 (of 4 volumes) bound in leather with raised bands (lacking 2nd volume)
Ronald Searle & Alex Atkinson Russia for Beginners 1960. Lost Legends of the Nursery Songs 1920 illustrated Alice Woodward. Walt Disney’s Bambi from the Novel by Felix Salten in picture boards. Puffin Picture Books. Bindings: Collection of Cassell’s Natural Library to include Dickens, Shakespeare, Walpole, Sir Walter Scott, Pope, Defoe, Samuel Pepys, Sir John Maundeville etc (1890s) in publisher's cloth. Comic Poems of Hood. Manners for Men by Mrs. Humphry 1897. Miniature Charles Lamb in suede and Little Music Library in 4 volumes etc.
A good lot of The Folio Society books with Ten Days that Shook the World, Letter from America, The Cream of Noel Coward, The Genius of James Thurber, The Complete Molesworth, The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate, Anthony Trollope, The Pick of Punch, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales, Pepys Diary, The Mapp and Lucia Novels, The Greek Myths together with the German translation of John Gould's The Birds of Great Britain (15) Condition Report:Available upon request
FOUR RECTANGULAR VINTAGE PHOTO ALBUMS AND CONTENTS, the combined contents comprising approximately 240 carte de visite, many with pencil / ink annotations to include family names such as Tufnell, Belli, Crawford, Robert Cockrell Architect of The Ashmolean Oxford, Andrew Pepys Cockrell Groom of The Bedchamber to The Prince Of Wales, Earl of Winchelsea etc.Condition Report:Some albums with part contents
FIVE BOXES AND LOOSE VINTAGE GAMES, to include a Kumbakatel bagatelle board, card games including Disneyland Snip Game, Walt Disney's Peter and the Wolf, 1920s Strip tease, Pepys Astronaut, The 'Planes Game and The Car Game, Sooty Saves Sixpence and Pepys Rupert, boxed Super Soccer game, board games including Ideal Battling Tops, Vic Toy Ox Blocks and Invicta Four Sight, Holly Hobbie doll, a cased set of Boules, etc (sd) (5 BOXES + LOOSE)
BINDINGSJOHNSON (SAMUEL) The Works, 12 vol., contemporary diced calf gilt, ornate gilt panelled spines (some wear and a couple of chips), 8vo, G. Walker, 1820--PEPYS (SAMUEL) The Diary, 8 vol., edited by Henry B. Wheatley, contemporary half calf, gilt panelled spines with red and dark green labels, small 8vo, G. Bell, 1904; and 16 others (36)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
Various playing cards and games, John Jacques & Son - Happy Families, Snap and The Counties of England 4th Series; a H.P.Gibson In Castle Land; a Pepys Pinocchio and Shuffled Symphonies; a Jaques Picture Lotto and others, mainly in original boxes (not checked for completeness, some damage to boxes); a few books including The Baby's Bouquet arranged and decorated by Walter Crane; and a Cap Flake tin
A collection of approx twelve Royal Mint brilliant uncirculated £2 collectors coins to include 500th Anniversary of Trinity house, The Great Fire of London, The Magna Carta, Wedgwood, Armistice, Samuel Pepys, Shakespeare, VE Day, Mayflower, Charles Dickens and the 350th Anniversary of the Guinea.
A collection of eleven Royal Mint £2 collectors coins to include The Magna Carta, Bravery in the Skies, A Time to Reflect, The Next Generation, A Symbol of the Skies, Watchful & Vigilant, A Powerful Guardian, Shoulder to Shoulder, 200th Anniversary of Frankenstein, The Great Fire of London and Samual Pepys Diary. All Uncirculated and in presentation folders.
Fish. Willughby (Francis), A collection of 48 engravings, circa 1686, uncoloured engravings, originally published in 'De Historia Piscium libri quatuar', each approximately 340 x 200 mmQTY: (48)NOTE:The first large scale work on the fishes of the British Isles .All the engravings were paid for by several members of the Royal Society of London, including the Society's president Samuel Pepys.
Browne (Alexander). Ars Pictoria; Or an Academy Treating of Drawing, Painting, Limning and Etching, 1st edition, London: J. Redmayne, 1669, engraved portrait frontispiece, 30 engraved plates (complete), mostly by Arnold de Jode, small library stamp to title and lower outer corner of each plate, verso of title with manuscript library number, light damp stain to gutter margin of title and lower margins of initial few leaves, some light spotting, minor marginal tears and dust-soiling, front free endpaper with early signature Wm. Beauchamp and later signature of William Goddaire dated 1827 (repair to upper outer corner), modern calf-backed cloth, library blind-stamp to upper board, joints rubbed and scuffed, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Wing B5097.Alexander Browne (d. 1706) was a miniature painter and auctioneer and one of the first publishers of mezzotints. He was variously a 'practitioner of the art of limning' (although none of his paintings or miniatures survives or can be identified); a drawing master (to Mrs Pepys among others); a colourman; the author of drawing manuals (the first in 1660) and of a treatise on art (Ars Pictoria, 1669); an art auctioneer (conducting sales later at his own premises in Gerrard Street, Soho), and a print publisher and printseller. His shop at 'ye Blew Balcony' in Little Queen Street near Lincolns Inn Fields would have contained quantities of prints, books and artists' materials. After Browne died in 1706 his widow quickly sold his collections at auction.
Pepys (Samuel). The Diary of Samuel Pepys ... edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley, 10 volumes, London: George Bell & Sons; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., 1904-10, half-titles, monochrome frontispieces and plates, folding pedigrees and plans, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary maroon half morocco, maroon cloth sides, gilt panelled spine compartments, 8voQTY: (10)
Henry Garrity "My Unknown Chum Aguecheek" 1st Edition published by The Devin-Adair Co New York 1927, A. J. Cronin "The Citadel" 1st Edition published by Grosset & Dunlap New York 1937, Philip Dru "Administrator A Story Of Tomorrow 1920-1935" 1st Edition published by B.W. Huebsch New York 1912, John Harold Wilson "The Private Life Of Mr Pepys" 1st Printing with dust cover published by Farrar Strus & Cudahy New York 1959, Lord Dunsany "Unhappy Far-Off Things" published by Elkin Mathews 1919, H. H. McConnell "Five Years A Cavalryman" published by Jacksbro Texas 1889, Elizabeth Abbott "The Fifteen Joys Of Marriage" published by The Orion Press New York 1959 (7)
Williamson (Henry).- Up the Line to Death. The War Poets 1914-18, edited by Brian Gardner, Henry Williamson's copy with his ink ownership inscription to endpaper and note below, A. L. s. to Williamson inserted into envelope and laid onto front pastedown, original boards, dust-jacket, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, 1964 § [Freeman (Robert Massie)], "Samuel Pepys Jr.". A Last Diary of the Great War, illustrations by J. Kettelwell, original cloth-backed boards, 1919, 8vo (2)⁂ An excellent pair of First World War books, the first with a good provenance.
The Oxford History of England, 18 vols with djs Latham, R C & Matthews, W (ed) "The Diary of Samuel Pepys", G Bell & Sons 1977, 11 vols, to include the index, all with djs, green cloth with gilt decoration to front board, gilt and red titles to backstripWheatley, Henry B (ed)"The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A.Frs", G Bell & Sons 1912, 10 vols to include the index , blue cloth, gilt decorations and titles to backstrip, t.e.g.Braybrooke, Richard (Lord)"Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys ...", George Allen 1914, 4 vols, green cloth with red backstrip, inscription ffep dated 1917Norman, Philip (ed)"Occasional Papers Published for Members of the Samuel Pepys Club", vol 2 1917-1923 only, printed for the club at The Chiswick Press 1925, blue cloth, with buckram backstrip and other related materialPottle, Frederick & Bennett, Charles (ed) "Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson ...", William Heinemann 1936, red cloth, dj and other material relating to James Boswell (1 box and vols)
Bindings to include:-Southey, Robert"The Naval History of England" in 5 vols, Orme Rees Brown Green & Longman 1833, full tan-coloured morocco, gilt ruled edges, pastedown titles, raised bands, gilt decorations, marbled ep, all edged marbled Kingsley's Works, half-leather, marbled boards, all edges marbledMemoirs of Pepys, Henry Colburn 1828, in 5 vols, full tan-coloured calf, with gilt decorations and raised bands, gilt titles have faded, all edges speckled, corners a little bumpedNapier, Major General Sir W F P"History of the War in Peninsular and in the South of France", 6 vols, Thomas & William Boone 1862 (22 vols in total)Condition ReportPlease see additional images
Sir Peter Lely (Dutch, 1618-1680)Portrait of a Gentleman, thought to be the actor Henry Harris, in a feigned oval, circa 1660sOil on canvas30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)Monogrammed lower left inside the oval: PLProperty from the Collection of Bill and Margot Winspear, Dallas, Texas PROVENANCE:Blundell, Hampshire (per the record below);Christie's, London, June 16, 2005, lot 212 (attributed to John Greenhill on the basis of a partial apocryphal signature);Philip Mould & Company, London;Acquired by the present owner from the above.During the second half of the seventeenth century, Sir Peter Lely assumed the mantle of Sir Anthony van Dyck as the most dominant portraitist in England, owing both to the enviable brio of his skillful likenesses and to his considerable personal charm. Everyone of consequence in his age sat to him.The present Portrait of a Gentleman, thought to be the actor Henry Harris, in a feigned oval (circa 1660) is, as English portrait specialist Philip Mould has commented, "a superb example of Lely's technique at what is arguably the highpoint of his artistic development. Here, the complete (and exceedingly difficult) mastery of tone so perfected by Rembrandt, and redolent of Lely's early education in Holland, is combined with his admiration for Van Dyck, whose elegant style increasingly became the starting point for all Lely's later work."In this portrait, Lely has made the most of the sitter's piercing intensity through his extremely subtle tonal gradations of the man's hooded eyes and sculpted nose—the two features imparting the most character to the face. They are also the most distinguishing characteristics of actor Henry Harris (circa 1634-1704), for whom only one surviving portrait is known [Magdalen College, Oxford, circa 1663]. Painted by John Greenhill, Lely's most talented pupil, that portrait shows Harris in the role of Cardinal Wolsey from Shakespeare's Henry VIII, presented in three-quarter view, and displaying an almost complete physiognomic resemblance to the man in Lely's painting. As Mould carefully observed, Lely's palette for the present portrait was limited, containing only four colors (brown, white, black, and red). He added: "Perhaps the most ingenious touch is the emergent backlight which offsets the thickly applied pigments in the face, and which instantly adds depth to the whole composition, while the delicate highlights on the sitter's left shoulder are enough to complete the sense of dimension, as his clothing appears to spill out over the painted oval frame. This sense of drama, captured throughout with the mastery of drawing that made Lely the most accomplished draughtsman after Van Dyck, ensures that we are fastened with a piercing gaze in a portrait of presence and power that few other artists – even across Europe – could have achieved at that time."Henry Harris was one of the leading actors of the late seventeenth century, and is known to us today chiefly through his friendship with diarist Samuel Pepys. Pepys recorded that he was able to command £20 for each new play (the equivalent of approximately £5,000 today), more than any other actor, and in 1663 he was made Yeoman of the Revels for life, with lodgings at court. Mould noted: "As part of the new generation of actors eager to please a post-Puritan audience, Harris played an important role in leading Londoners out of the rigid austerity of Cromwell's republic into the florid grandeur of the Stuart monarchy. He performed regularly for the King and the Duke of York. His friendship with Pepys began in 1667, the diarist thinking him ‘a very excellent person, such as in my whole [life] I do not know another better qualified for converse... I was mightily pleased with his company.' He was a ‘very curious and understanding person in all pictures and other things – and a man of fine conversation', and Pepys seems to have relied on the actor, who was something of a rogue, to experience the wilder antics of London life. After one evening of drink and merriment, he noted, ‘Lord, their mad bawdy talk did make my heart ake.''' HID12701242017
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