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Dear Friend,
In a few days we hope to welcome you to Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair at the Saatchi Gallery. In the meantime we’re delighted to share a terrific 17th century manuscript diary and a suggestively annotated 1709 volume of Shakespeare’s tragedies. We have one of 20 copies of the private pre-publication issue of Robert Bridges’ Testament of Beauty, and an archive that charts the rebuilding of Napoleon’s home on St Helena. Do please say if you need a complimentary ticket.
Best wishes,
Christian
[THE BYBLE, THAT IS TO SAY, AL THE HOLY SCRIPTURE CONTEINED IN THE OLDE & NEW TESTAMENT] The Bible English — Edward Becke; William Tyndale — 1551
1551 English Protestant Bible boasting a complete text of the Old and New Testament, lacking eight preliminary leaves, including the general title page, up to and including AAii; AAv-vi; lacking title page to ‘The Boke of Joshua’ (Ai) and the final five leaves of the Table to the Epistles at the end of the New Testament, V4-8, the last of these being a blank. Overall thirteen printed leaves and one blank are lacking from this edition without affecting the Bible text. DESCRIPTION: Small folio (27…… Read more
DIARY WRITTEN BY ‘THE KEEPER OF THE PALACE OF WESTMINSTER’, RECORDING THE COLLAPSE OF CROMWELL’S COMMONWEALTH & THE CORONATION OF CHARLES II — John Wynyard — 1658
Extraordinary 17th century manuscript diary and day-book written by the ‘Keeper of the Palace at Westminster’ which offers an insider’s perspective on the torrid months around the collapse of the Cromwellian regime and the Restoration of Charles II, culminating on: ‘Tuesday Aprill 23 1661 Coronation day at night left in my charge the Globe & 2 Scepters Rich with Juoells [Jewels]: which I delivered to the deane of westminster Doctor [John] Earle Thursday 25: The Kings Robes left at the same tyme…… Read more
JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE’S COPY: The English Mounsieur. A Comedy as it is Acted by His Majesty’s Servants. — James Howard — 1674
Restoration comedy owned by the Shakespearian actor John Philip Kemble (1757-1823) with well-documented subsequent provenance, passing through the Arbury library of Sir Francis Newdigate-Newdigate via George D Smith (Anderson Galleries 1920); unsold at Sotheby Parke Bernet 1972), later owned by the Pennsylvania State literary scholar Robert D Hume. Full calf-gilt Riviere-style restoration to a neo-classical binding c1800, laying down the backstrip; with its label ‘J P Kemble’s Copy’; inner dente…… Read more
MANUSCRIPT OF GEORG GRAEVIUS’S COMMENTARY ON SUETONIUS’S ‘THE LIVES OF THE CAESARS’ — Johan Georg Graevius; Suetonius — c. 1700
Manuscript fair copy of the German classical scholar Johan Georg Graevius’s commentary on Suetonius Lives of the Caesars, possibly compiled by someone with connections to Graevius himself. No later than the mid 18th century this is an imposing manuscript with an end note that appears to read: ‘Datore officiore codillos’ - suggesting it might be the work of a notary. This magisterial manuscript is undoubtedly the work of someone with a steady and practised hand, making a scribal vocation seem lik…… Read more
PROBABLY NOT ANNOTATED BY ALEXANDER POPE: The Works of Mr. William Shakespear. Volume the Fifth. Containing Romeo & Juliet. Timon of Athens. Julius Caesar. Macbeth. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. King Lear. Othello. — William Shakespeare — 1709
The elusive fifth volume of Jacob Tonson and Nicholas Rowe's 1709 edition of Shakespeare's Works offering several hundred early 18th century annotations to the text. The annotator has made dozens of manuscript textual emendations, introduced additional handwritten stage directions, and attempted to elucidate difficult words in Shakespeare’s text. In a moment of great critical insight the annotator has added lines spoken by Antigone from Seneca’s Phoenician Women below the printed passage where L…… Read more
18TH AND 19TH CENTURY ENGRAVINGS CURATED FROM THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE & BOUND IN ONE VOLUME — Mr Armstrong — 1757
The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure was a periodical published in London in the period 1747–1814 by John Hinton and W. Bent. This bound volume presenting 30 contemporary engravings featured in the magazine represents its interests in Architecture, Travels, Voyages, History, Geography and Mechanics. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Contemporary landscape format album in good condition. Marbled boards with brown calf to spine, a little bumped to corners, age worn, a little faded. Spine in 5 compa…… Read more
‘A PINT OF BEER EACH DAY’: Thomas Townshend’s Minute Book as a Commissioner for Westminster Road Building and Civic Improvement in the 1760s — Thomas Townshend Esq. [later 1st Viscount Sydney] — 1762
Small octavo manuscript record book in original marbled wrappers dating from 1762, written for Thomas Townshend who was serving as one of the Commissioners for the City of Westminster. Ownership inscription in a contemporary (secretarial) hand to verso of upper cover reads ‘Mr Townshend’; an address of Cleveland Court is given for him within the minutes. The contents provide a detailed record of the workings of those responsible for the construction and maintenance of the streets of mid-18th cen…… Read more
UNRECORDED BROADSIDE Turn the Carpet; or, the Two Weavers; a New Song in a Dialogue between Dick and John — [Hannah More] — 1800
Unrecorded broadside edition of Hannah More’s poetic dialogue shared between a pair of weavers. Accompanying the broadside is a letter from the bibliophile Eric Quayle presenting the broadside to the Yorkshire art collector Ronnie Duncan. DESCRIPTION: Tall format (37x21cm) printed on paper with horizontal chainlines for the ‘Cheap Repository’ which suggests John Marshall as the most likely printer. Two woodcuts signed in the plate by ‘Lee’ which depict the weavers and their product, helpfully la…… Read more
UNRECORDED & WITH OVERTONES OF JANE AUSTEN: By Command of their Majesties, Theatre Royal Weymouth. On Monday July the 27th, 1801 — George III — 1801
Unrecorded silk playbill for two performances given before King George III during one of his summer stays in the southern English coastal resort of Weymouth. George III first came to Weymouth in 1789 to convalesce and returned many times over the next 16 years making the town highly fashionable. The playbill has strong overtones of Jane Austen’s novels as her characters repeatedly visit Weymouth, notably Tom Bertram in Mansfield Park where he is thrilled by the races and parties. One of the play…… Read more
1801 ACT OF UNION PAPERMADE NOVELTY REPRESENTING: THE HISTORY OF THE UNION JACK FLAG OF GREAT BRITAIN — Unknown — 1801
A hand-crafted from paper, fold out Union flag and attached written statement which together explain the significance of the 1801 Act of Union which united and created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Divided into its component parts this little piece of history represents the red cross of St George, the white saltire of St Andrew and the red saltire of St Patrick in their new iteration. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION In remarkably good condition. Each element of this precisely made object…… Read more
THIRTEEN WELSH ESSAYS, SERMONS AND HOMILETICS — Rev William Jones; A Booth; Isaac Harries; R Wright; John James — 1829
Thirteen Welsh imprints bound together in a small octavo volume. Tree calf binding, marbled edges to text block, a little bumped to corners and edges in good sound condition. Handsome spine in 5 compartments decoratively ruled and adorned, titled in gilt over black panel. Bumped to top and tail. Marbled endpapers and decorative text block edges in good unmarked condition. Text within browned in sections, legible and clean throughout. Several texts within are hand signed ‘Mr William Llewellyn’ as…… Read more
‘THE PRINCE OF POISONERS’- A VICTORIAN TRUE CRIME COLLECTION: Illustrated Life and Career of William Palmer of Rugeley & Illustrated and Unabridged Times Report of the Trial of William Palmer for the Poisoning of John Parsons Cook at Rugeley & A Letter to the Lord Chief Justice Campbell by The Rev Thomas Palmer brother of William Palmer. — Thomas Palmer; George Godwin; James Gordon Allan; The Times — 1856
Victorian true crime collection, centring on the notorious 1850s case of the poisoner William Palmer, known as ‘The Prince of Poisoners’, a doctor found guilty of murdering his patients and described by Charles Dickens as ‘the greatest villain that ever stood in the Old Bailey’. A quarto half binding of calf over marbled boards in fair to good condition. Shelf wear to corners and hinges. Six panelled spine, bumped to ends, worked in gilt and titled ‘Pamphlets’. Front board and spine panel loosen…… Read more
RARE PROVINCIAL IMPRINT Original Poetry by Harriot H Wormald Lawson — Harriot H Wormald Lawson — 1857
Rare printed collection of heartfelt mid 19th century poetry written by an aristocratic woman and printed to a remarkably high standard by an otherwise almost unknown provincial press new Newcastle. DESCRIPTION: Large quarto format (22x28cm) bound in ribbed red cloth with gilt decoration; a few marks to boards but very good; all edges gilt. Vibrant decorative endpapers with a long inscription on the first flyleaf: ‘Presented to Andrew Thomas Shepherd Esq.r As a token of very High Esteem, by the…… Read more
WEST LONDON PRINTING PARTNERSHIP ON BROMPTON ROAD: An Archival Collection — William Henry Brown; John Brown; — 1866
A photographic and documentary archive which combines to chart the identities, geographies and practice of a family of engravers and printers on Brompton Road in west London from the mid-19th century onwards. An apprenticeship indenture dated 6th November 1866 legally binds the son of John Brown, William Henry Brown, ‘to learn the Art, Trade or Business of an Engraver and Printer’ and ‘put himself apprentice to Henry Brown of 261 Brompton Rd, Kensington.’ The document lays out the 5-year apprent…… Read more
SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE’S VICTORIAN PAMPHLETS: The Fight at Dame Europa’s School; Aesop’s New War Fables; The Battle of Dorking — Henry William Pullen; Augustus Brackenbury; Blackwood’s Magazine — 1871
A bound volume of pamphlets, 2 alluding to current affairs, belonging to Sir Stafford Northcote, one of them inscribed to him by the writer Augustus Brackenbury. Northcote was a prominent late nineteenth century politician who spent nine years as Tory leader in the House of Commons from 1876 to 1885, almost a forgotten Tory leader in spite of the colossal statue of him in the Central Lobby of the House of Commons, seen by hundreds of visitors every day. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Three pamphlets, boun…… Read more
1870s BRITISH DOCTORS HIT BACK AT MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: British Medical Association: Minute Book — Medical Defense Association; G Danford Thomas etc — 1875
Minutes of an important but almost forgotten organisation, the ‘Medical Defence Association’, a collective, well-supported attempt made in Britain by members of the profession in the 1870s to target and outlaw malpractice and charlatanry by purported members of the medical profession. Predating the better known Medical Defence Union, the first minuted meeting within this volume is dated December 10th 1875, chaired by Mr G Danford Thomas (later involved with the Dr Crippen case) which proposes th…… Read more
ORIGINAL ARTWORK IN ILLUSTRATION TO LONGFELLOW'S EVANGELINE: ‘Silhouettes cut on paper by James Allen London 1879’ — James Allen - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — 1879
A collection of 25 beautifully executed silhouette illustrations conceived by the artist James Allen whose work is held at the Metropolitan Museum (Milton’s L’Allegro) and the Bodleian Library. Allen has responded imaginatively to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1847 poem about a young woman from the Acadian community and her search for her lost love Gabriel. Each of the silhouettes in James Allen’s 1879 album is keyed to a moment in the text, revealing the impact of Longfellow’s work which spread…… Read more
ASSOCIATION COPY WITH 4 AUTHORIAL LETTERS: A SYNOPSIS OF THE BRITISH MOSSES being descriptions of all the genera and species found in Great Britain and Ireland to the present date. — Charles P Hobkirk [James Eustace Bagnall] — 1884
Laid into this second edition is a sequence of letters between the author Charles P Hobkirk and their recipient, the book’s owner, James Eustace Bagnall. The letters mention the ‘club’ which is most probably a reference to The Moss Exchange Club set up in the 1800s with the main object of assisting its members in building up collections of correctly named specimens. Exchanges of specimens between members was instrumental in keeping interest in British and Irish mosses and liverworts alive during…… Read more
LEAVES FROM THE BUIK OF THE WEST KIRKE - Manuscript Copy Incorporating Original Manuscript by David Williamson and Neil McVicar, ministers to the West Kirke Church of St Cuthbert’s in Edinburgh — George Lorimer [David Williamson; Neil McVicar] — 1885
A handwritten reversioning of George Lorimer’s text which adds 2 original documents including one in the hand of the covenanter - and later moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland - David Williamson (1694), minister at the church in the 17th century. Additionally there is a document in the hand of his succesor at the Kirk, Neil McVicar: this is a longer piece of text which ‘refers to the case of Andrew Wilson - late Session Clerk - who was dismissed from his office for scanda…… Read more
UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT ESSAY: ‘The Art of Translation in Prose and Poetry - Original Manuscript by Arthur Symons’ — Arthur Symons — 1904
Autograph manuscript bound up with a bespoke typed transcript of Arthur Symons’ essay on translation, cased by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. This manuscript essay does not appear to have been published, and previously formed part of the collection of the bibliophile and performer Barry Humphries who had a particular interest in the theory and practice of literary translations into English. DESCRIPTION: Half crushed morocco binding over green cloth by Sangorski and Sutcliffe; marbled endpapers with Ba…… Read more
SIGNALMAN’S PERSONAL DIARY AND HIS OFFICIAL ‘SIGNAL LOG’ FOR HMS GLOUCESTER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN DURING THE RUN-UP TO THE GALLIPOLI LANDINGS, 1913-1915 — Alexander Wiseman (Leading Signalman) — 1913 - 1915
‘Reminiscences of HMS Gloucester. Commissioned at Plymouth 30th January 1913 - NOT FOR PUBLICATION’, a diary cum memoir seemingly intended as a rejoinder against those who criticised the inactivity of the British navy during the early years of the Great War. This small folio, 349pp, originally intended as a W/T Cabinet Log book is full of well preserved, valuable hand written accounts, maps, and many original photographs compiled during both peacetime and in the early years of the war which toge…… Read more
SKETCHBOOKS & ARCHIVE OF LIVERPOOL-TRAINED ARCHITECT, ACADEMIC & PRIX DE ROME FINALIST, WESLEY DOUGILL — Wesley Dougill — 1919 - 1943
Archive of the Liverpool University educated architect, academic architect at the university and town-planner, Wesley Dougill, who died suddenly at the age of 50 in 1943 while working as Chief Town Planning Assistant for the London County Council, planning post-war reconstruction. Dougill (1893 -1943) was a cmuch admired draughtsman, architect and town planner who having survived World War 1 was preparing at his death to take on the challenges of the post WW2 period to build a better England. We…… Read more
CONGRATULATIONS TO HALL CAINE ON TORY ELECTORAL VICTORY IN DORSET — Gordon R Hall Caine - son of the novelist Hall Caine; Ernest Hodder-Williams; Henrietta Bankes etc — 1922
165 pieces of Conservative Party electoral ephemera gathered together by the victorious candidate in the General Election of 1922 in East Dorset. It is a collection of original letters (handwritten and typed), postcards, telegrams and cables sent to Gordon Ralph Hall Caine on his election victory for the East Dorset seat. The letters have been tipped in to a bespoke album, bound in full burgundy roan, titled in gilt to the upper board "G. Ralph Hall Caine, CBE, MP, East Dorset, 15th November 192…… Read more
‘YOURS WAS THE VOICE I HEARD IN MY MIND’S EAR’: Musical and Personal Archive of the Soprano Dame Isobel Baillie — Isobel Baillie, Brian Crimp, Hamilton Harty, Norman Allin, Herbert Howells, Lady Jessie Wood, Harriet Cohen — 1922 - 1984
Personal archive of Isobel Baillie (1895-1983) who was Scots-born and rose via a scholarship to Manchester High School, and the patronage of the conductor of Manchester’s Halle Orchestra, Hamilton Harty (15 letters from Harty), to become the preeminent oratorio and lieder-singing soprano of her generation. The collection was compiled by the ghost-writer of her autobiography Brian Crimp and includes 16 letters from Baillie to Crimp detailing his work on this project as well as a letter to Baillie…… Read more
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Rochester A Conversation between Sir George Etherege and Mr Fitzjames — Bonamy Dobree — 1926
From the private collection of Yorkshire art collector Ronnie Duncan who befriended many artists and poets during their time at the University of Leeds as Gregory Fellows subsequently inspiring his life long love of innovative 1950s and 1960s British art. First Edition. 1954. In original dust jacket, sunned to spine, age toned. Watermarked to bottom left, chipped to spine top, tail and top corner. Boards in original blue cloth in good condition, titled in gilt to spine. Endpapers clean, very sli…… Read more
PRIVATE ISSUE - PRE-PRODUCTION SHEETS WITH MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS: Testament of Beauty — Robert Bridges — 1927
One of 25 pre-publication draft copies of what would become The Testament of Beauty, printed for the author and distributed to his friends for comment and feedback. This is a known but previously unlocated copy which was presented to the historian and novelist Ernest Thompson as an invitation to criticise and improve his friend’s work. In his 1944 biography of Bridges, Thompson recalls how the poet required ‘real criticism’ from recipients of this private printing: ‘As the draft of the poem comp…… Read more
LOWRY’S ONLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK: A Cotswold Book With Illustrations by L.S. Lowry — H.W. Timperley — 1931
A very uncommon First Edition containing L.S. Lowry’s only bookform illustrations aside from a few dust wrapper designs. In very good condition. 8vo. Russet cloth covered boards lettered in gold to the spine. Very slight bump to spine tip. Endpapers clean and unmarked. Illustrated with a frontispiece and containing eleven b/w drawings by L.S.Lowry. Text block sound. Very minimal foxing to a few leaves. Original dust wrapper in good condition illustrated with a reproduction of one of Lowry’s draw…… Read more
3D PHOTOGRAPHS: Children's Newspaper Album of Lifelike Pictures with Magic Spectacles — The Children's Newspaper — 1933
Self binder album given away with the Children’s Newspaper for February 4, 1933. Contains the original 4 pages of Lifelike Pictures given away on the day of issue and also several more sheets issued week by week dating 11/2, 18/02, 25/02, 4/03/ 11/03, 18/03 and 25/03. These early 3-D images, eclectic and often rather simplistic, reveal the contemporary moment and include: The Skyscrapers of New York as seen from an aeroplane In an Old Kentucky Home A Woman of Papua Making Pottery Workers in the…… Read more
‘REALLY A MAJOR POET’ - TRANSLATING RILKE INTO ENGLISH: An Archival Collection Charting the Creation of the Hogarth Press Editions of Rainer Maria Rilke — Rainer Maria Rilke; Leonard Woolf; Stephen Spender; James B Leishmann; Margaret West — 1933
Superb archival collection charting the complex choreography between Leonard Woolf as publisher, the poet Stephen Spender and the academic translator James B Leishman which resulted in the publication of Leishman’s Hogarth Press translation of Rilke’s Poems (1934) and in 1939 Spender and Leishman’s translation of the Duino Elegies. Leonard Woolf’s correspondence reveals his early hostility to publishing the poems due to the ‘barbarous’ behaviour of the new Nazi regime in 1933 which was countered…… Read more
MANUSCRIPT MINUTE BOOK & LECTURE SUMMARIES OF Cambridge University Anthropological Club — John Henry Hutton, Jack Driberg, [Leonard Woolley, Vivian Fuchs, Margaret Murray etc] — 1935
An exceptionally rich manuscript record of the emergence of Social Anthropology as a discipline at Cambridge University during the 1930s and 1940s. This manuscript records and gives substantial summaries of lectures, mostly by visiting scholars who included the Australian archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe, Margaret Murray on several occasions (Murray was the first woman to be apponted a lecturer in archaeology in Britain), Sir Leonard Woolley, Morris Ginsberg, and Camilla Wedgwood. These minutes…… Read more
REBUILDING NAPOLEON’S LAST HOME, ‘LONGWOOD’, ON ST HELENA: 1860-1950 — Napoleon Bonaparte — 1952
An extensive collection of diaries, photographs, blueprints, letters and documents - and even a painted sample sheet of Longwood’s famous wallpaper from the 1920s - which together record the rescue and rebuilding of Napoleon Bonaparte’s dilapidated home on St Helena. Longwood housed Napoleon from December 1815 to his death in 1821, was bought by the French government but fell into disastrous disrepair by the time Basil Lennox Hart took charge of its renovation in the 1950s. His - this - archive…… Read more
GERALD KAUFMAN’S COPY, SIGNED BY ATTLEE: As It Happened — Clement Attlee — 1954
Labour Prime Minister Clement Atlee’s signed autobiography from the personal library of the influential Labour MP, Gerald Kaufman. In original dust jacket in good condition, a little bumped to corners and edges. Nicked to spine top and tail. Red cloth covered boards in very good condition, titled in gilt to spine, a little shelf worn to top and tail. Endpapers clean and crisp. ‘GB Kaufman’ ownership signature to top right of front free endpaper. B/W full page photograph of The Right Hon C R Attl…… Read more
INSCRIBED TO AN OLD FRIEND The Nightfishing — William Sydney Graham — 1955
Inscribed first edition from the private collection of Yorkshire art collector Ronnie Duncan who befriended many artists and poets during their time at the University of Leeds as Gregory Fellows, subsequently inspiring his life-long love of innovative 1950s and 1960s British art. The copy is annotated and signed by the author to Ronnie and his wife Henriette. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION. First Edition. 1955. In original black dust jacket in fair condition. Scuffed to corners, top edge and spine top. 5…… Read more
OBSCENELY ‘GRAFFITIED BY GOON S[HOW]’ - PETER SELLARS, SPIKE MILLIGAN AND HARRY SECOMBE: Dialstone Lane — Peter Sellars, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe [W W Jacobs] — 1911 & 1957
Gloriously rudely scrawled-on 1910s children’s tale in which the trio of Goons have played off each other’s surreal suggestions to create a new and outrageously humorous hybrid book-manuscript, recalling the style of Joe Orton’s legendarily defaced library books. In this extraordinary object the Goons have misused and subverted in the most energetic way imaginable an early edition of popular novelist W W Jacobs’ novel about the inhabitants of the fictional English village of Binchester. Sellars,…… Read more
‘VERY MANY CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR “K”’ – 50 LETTERS RECEIVED BY SIR ALFRED STANLEY FORDHAM AND HIS WIFE ISABEL — R A Butler [Alfred Fordham] Diplomats and Ambassadors — 1964
Congratulatory letters to Sir Alfred Stanley Fordham K.B.E., C.M.G. (1907-81) who was educated at Eton and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge before joining the Foreign Service and becoming a career diplomat. He was Vice-Consul in San Francisco in 1932. Other stations in his career included Lima (1933–1936), Guatemala (1936–1943), Los Angeles (1943–1944), San Salvador (1944–1945) and St. Louis (1945–1948). From 1949 to 1951 he was Head of the American Department in the Foreign Office. From 1…… Read more
INSCRIBED TO A FELLOW COLLECTOR, WITH A LETTER: Savage Messiah — Harold Stanley Ede - Jim Ede [Henry Gaudier Brzeska] — 1971
Reissue of Jim Ede’s groundbreaking study of Henry Gaudier Brzeska whose archive and many of whose sculptures he owned. Ede has inscribed the book on the title page to his friend and fellow art collector Ronnie Duncan: ‘For Ronnie and Henriette Duncan most gratefully Jim Ede 30.9.71’. Laid in is a letter from Ede to Duncan, written a year later, on Kettle’s Yard headed paper, trying to arrange a visit and recommending ‘the Gaudier Exhibition in Leeds & perhaps also seeing the film which I have n…… Read more
INSCRIBED AND DOODLED WITH A CAMPBELL SOUP CAN Andy Warhol from A to B & Back Again — Andy Warhol — 1975
Very uncommon signed copy of the first British edition, elaborately inscribed on the half-title by Warhol for the Yorkshire art collector Ronnie Duncan and his wife Henriette. Above a carefully executed Campbell Soup tin Warhol has written ‘Ronnie and Henriette’, continuing below, ‘London 1976 Andy Warhol’. Warhol undertook a British tour to promote this book in 1976 where he met the recipients of this inscription. The book is very nearly a fine first edition with just a little spotting to the e…… Read more
LETTER FROM A SCHOOL-FRIEND OF WILFRED OWEN TO THE POET’S BIOGRAPHER - with a substantial archive of Correspondence about Dominic Hibberd’s Wilfred Owen Research — [Wilfred Owen] Dominic Hibberd — 1988
An archive of letters received by Dominic Hibberd while researching and publishing on Wilfred Owen which includes a remarkable letter from Alec Paton written in 1988 (he was 95 at the time) recalling his school experiences with the poet: ‘Wilfred and I were great friends at school in Birkenhead Institute from schooldays up to the time when the family moved... to Shrewsbury.’ Other letters to Hibberd touch on Craiglockhart Hospital, Owen’s sexuality and a missing pocket book owned by Owen. Domini…… Read more
LIMITED EDITION Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; Illustrations by Charles Van Sandwyk — Lewis Carroll — 2016
Mint copy of this Folio Society edition which was limited to 1,000 copies, this being number 138, signed and numbered by the illustrator Charles Van Sandwyk to the etching tipped in before the title page. Small folio bound in half vellum over decorative paper-covered boards, top edge gilt; pictorial endpapers followed by a limitation statement, and illustrated throughout with a mixture of colour plates and c50 line drawings. Housed in a solander box bound in russet cloth. A lovely book.
Dr. Christian White
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