Alexander (William). A Journey to Beresford Hall the Seat of Charles Cotton Esqre. the Celebrated Author and Angler, London: John Russell Smith, 1841, half-title, lithograph frontispiece, title with vignette illustration, lithograph text and facsimile manuscript, additional clipped wood engraved illustration of the fishing house pasted in, some browning and toning, bookplate of William Macmath to upper pastedown, original green cloth, printed title label to upper board, upper board near detached, slim 4to, together with [ Manning, Frederick, editor] , A Series of Views, taken on the spot, intended to illustrate Charles Cotton's work, entitled, The Second Part of the Complete Angler ... Also views mentioned in the same work, of the Journey to Beresford Hall, the Fishing House, and others of interest, as therein described at that time, London: Truscott, Son, & Simmons, [1866], engraved portrait frontispiece, lithograph map and 24 plates (including 2 folding), occasional spotting, front blank inscribed "Presented to William Sillito, by Helen M. Salt, niece of the author, Weeping Cross, October, 1904", later endpapers[?], original red cloth, lacking spine, some wear to board edges, slim 4to (Qty: 2)
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Samuel Lane (1780 - 1859), oil on canvas - full-length portrait of Henry John Sperling (1795 - 1882) of Dynes Hall, probably painted on the occasion of appointment as Deputy Lieutenant of Essex in 1844, unsigned, 170cm x 132cm, in fine period gilt gesso frame. Provenance: By family descent from Charles Sperling, brother of the sitter. N.B. Henry John Sperling was born in Hammerwood Park near East Grinstead. His father John Sperling was a prominent fur trader throughout Europe and owned a Dublin brewery, he commissioned the architect Latrove to build Hammerwood Park in 1792, the architect later moved to the United States where he designed the White House and other buildings. When John Sperling's business suffered as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, he was forced to sell Hammerwood Park and the family established themselves at another property which they owned, Dynes Hall, Near Great Maplestead, Essex. Henry John Sperling served in the 9th Regiment under the Duke of Wellington in 1814 - 1815 in Northern France. He married his cousin, Maria, and settled in the family seat at Dynes Hall, dying at his residence in Cannes in 1882. Henry Sperling and his family were immortalised in a series on annotated sketches made by Henry's younger sister Diana Sperling (b. 1791) and published in 1981 by Gordon Mingay under the title 'Mrs Hurst Dancing: And Other Scenes from Regency Life'. Henry features in many of the comical illustrations and is variously seen falling off a horse, playing badminton, in military uniform, etc. A copy of the book is to be included in this lot. Although unsigned, the attribution to artist Samuel Lane is supported by family tradition that he painted the work. Samuel Lane was born in Kings Lynn and painted many notable East Anglian gentry and others including Sir Philip Broke, Sir Astley Cooper, Thomas Telford and Admiral Horatio Nelson
Charles II carved walnut and caned side chair with pierced putto and foliate scroll carved top rail and panel back between barley-twist supports, stuffover seat on turned block and barley-twist understructure with conforming carved front rail, old exhibition label verso reads - Cambridge – Lent by A. S. F. Gow M.A. Trinity College 1941, Walnut chair ‘English’ period of Charles II
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