Frith (William Powell, 1819-1909). Autograph Letter Signed ('WP Frith'), Ashenhurst, Sydenham Rise, 8 March 1889 , to H.Harrison, providing details and anecdotes about his series of pictures The Road to Ruin, 'one of my objects in painting the pictures was to draw public attention to the anomaly at present exisiting with regard to gambling which is lawful apparently in one place & subject to severe punishment in another. Young men may lose their estates in Ascot or Epsom but they may not bet for shillings in London streets or Parks. They were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1888 - & a railing was put up before them to prevent injury from the crowd', 3 pages, small 8vo The Road to Ruin was series of five pictures intended to serve as moralities in the manor of Hogarth. (1)
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Small quantity of zoo and pond fencing by Barratt & Sons, FGT, etc; including cage straight rails, and park fencing, curved post fencing, 2 turnstiles and pay hut and zoo gate all in metal plus 8 plastic straight lengths of cage railing. QGC to GC (mostly minor wear a few fixings and rail tips damaged) (47)
A set of nine French empire mahogany dining chairs, including three elbow chairs with crisply carved scrolling arms supported by anthemia and on lappeted sabre forelegs, upholstered in yellow woolwork, several chairs stamped J F, possibly Dutch, c1825 Some re-railing and worm damage etc, two side chairs broken and in need of restoration, the upholstery in variable condition
Fireplaces and Ranges. Frost & Winfield's Pattern Book of Register Stoves, Tiled Grates and Kerbs for Tiled Hearths, Open and Close Fire Cooking Ranges..., Plain and Ornamental Gates, Railing, Balusters, Tomb Fences, Dust Screens..., City Road Foundry, Derby, c.1870, forty?eight litho plts. (mostly chromos), orig. cloth gilt, slightly frayed to extrems., oblong 8vo, together with H.F. & Co., General Ironfounders, Manufacturers of Close and Open Fire Leamington Kitchen Ranges. Yorkshire Patent Cottage and Excelsior Range..., pub. Glasgow, c.1880, seventeen chromo plts. inc. one folding, orig. printed chromo wrappers, recent cloth spine strip, slim 4to, with Hardy & Padmore, Iron & Brass Founders & General Engineers, Worcester Foundry, Worcester, Supplementary Drawings, 1885, litho plts. inc. few partly hand?col., some plts. torn with slight loss, title page creased, surface soiling, orig. wrappers, creased, oblong folio, plus Badger & Co.'s Patent Worcester Kitchener..., Worcester, 1882, 4pp., creased, 4to (4)
Lloyd (Nathaniel). A History of the English House, Architectural Press, 1931, num. illusts., plts. from photos, contemp. quarter calf, raised bands, folio, together with Lenygon (Francis). Decoration in England from 1660 to 1770, n.d., c.1927, b&w frontis., eng. title, num. plts. and illusts., orig. cloth, sl. sunned to spine, folio, plus Riddell (Robert). The New Elements of Hand-Railing, 1871, b&w frontis. num. eng. plts., contemp. cloth gilt, sl. marked, folio,plus Blomfield (Reginald). A History of French Architechture, 2 vols. only, 1911, num. plts., a.e.g., contemp. gilt dec. blue morocco, by Bumpus, 4to, and four others of architectural interest, all 4to (9)
A set of twelve mahogany dining chairs, the ribbed top rails above a veneered tablet to leaf and floret ears above a foliate bar, the stuffed over seats on ring turned tapering legs, comprising; a pair of carvers and ten side. 19th century and later, old restoration and damage including re-railing and blocking. (12)
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