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CATALOGUE SEVENTY SIX
A MISCELLANY,
INCLUDING IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPH LETTERS , D.H. LAWRENCE , H AILE S ELASSIE IN
E XILE, R EBECCA W EST , AND THE S URREALIST EDWARD J AMES , AIR P OST FROM THE
P ARIS SIEGE , WEST G ALLERY MANUSCRIPTS G EORGIAN P SALMODY , WORKS BY D ORÉ , A
KRAUS BILDER B IBEL , PUNCH VOLUMES OF THE F IRST WORLD W AR YEARS , AND
S TEREOSCOPE VIEWS FROM THAT CONFLICT .
Rowlandson Drawing on a Return from the Grand Tour see item 37
CLIVE FARAHAR RARE BOOKS
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1.
ABNEY (Sir W.de W. ed.) PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNAL, Including the
Journal and Transactions of the Royal Photographic Society of
Great Britain,Vol LVI No 1 - 8, hf.title, library stamp, title + 287
pp. & Vol LVII No 1- 8 , ii + 261 pp. numerous illusts, 8vo.
binders cloth, leather label,
London, R.P.S. January December, 1916, January - December, 1917
[Stock ID: 13578 ] £100
2. ARCTIC.
COLLINSON (Sir
Richard,
1811-1883)
Oval
Woodburytype Portrait Head and
Shoulders,4½ x 3½ ins within a
decorative printed border, letterpress,
11 x 8 ins. London, Lock & Whitfield,
c.1875
Collinson’s reputation in the Arctic Seas on the last Franklin
Relief Expedition. His account was not published until after
his death.
[Stock ID: 13562 ] £75
3. [AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS] LE MONNIER
(Guillaume Antoine, abbé) Satires de Perse. Traduction Nouvelle,
aves texte Latin a côté, et des notes,xxvii + [1] + 224 + [2], sm.8vo,
comtemporary cats paw calf, spine gilt with flower motif, Paris, Ch. Ant.
Jombert, pere, Librarie du Roi, L. Cellot, Imprimeur-Libraire, Cl.Ant.
Jombert, fils ainé, Libraire, 1771
The first satire censures literary tastes of the day, reflecting the
decadence of national morals. The remaining books are philosophical
discussions on themes often treated by Seneca, such as what may rightly
be asked of the gods, the necessity of self-knowledge for public men, and
the Stoic doctrine of freedom.
[Stock ID: 13556 ] £145
PARIS SIEGE AIR MAIL
4.
BALLON MONTÉ. Shannon (Charles R.) Autograph Letter Signed “My
dearest Fred All in pretty good health - nothing very new” he continues “Skirmishes
almost every day but nothing important... We are all as you may suppose dull enough,
no kind of business. How long it will all last Lord only knows”,1 side 8vo, integral
envelope inscribed “Par ballon monté Mr. Frederic Shannon 59 Strand, London”,
brown 30 centime stamp, clearly stamped Pl.de la Bourse counter stamped London
W.C. Y8 OC 18 70, Paris 14th October, 1870
[Stock ID: 13629 ] £350
5.
BALLON MONTÉ. Shannon (Charles R.) Autograph Letter Signed “My
dearest Fred In spite of the abominable bombardment the Batignolles have been so far
spared” “But should that quarter become dangerous we can go to some friends in the
Rue des Petites Ecuries which is quite central. I was told yesterday that all the English
in Paris had no kind of protection. I know that at the British Embassy no one has
remained with the exception of the Porter and his wife. I always imagined that
Washburne had taken charge of the British subjects but it would seem not. I shall go
to the American legation and if what I am told is true
I must say that I cannot understand the way in which
England is acting thro’ this frightful war! The letter
addressed to the Prussians and signed by the neutral
Representatives in Paris is the tamest stuff I ever
read”,3 sides 8vo, integral envelope inscribed “Par
Ballon Monté Mr. Frederic Shannon, Messrs.Coutts
Cie, 59 Strand, Londres”, brown 30 centimes stamp,
indistinct Place de la Bourse, counter stamped
London W.C. 75 JA 23 71, Paid, small hole near seal
with loss, small tear to foredge complete, Paris 19th
Jan. 1871
Ballon Monté a French expression meaning “balloon
with pilot”. It can be found on mail during the siege
of Paris (1870-71). For this a higher rate of postage
was charged. Balloons were used because there were
no other way to leave the city as the Germans had
surrounded the town. The first ascent was made on
23rd September, 1870. The Siege lasted until the
28th of January 1871.
[Stock ID: 13628 ] £450
PARIS SIEGE AIR MAIL
6.
BALLON MONTÉ. Shannon (Charles R.) Autograph Letter Signed “My
dearest Fred, Since my last nothing new” “For some days we all expected an armistice
but during the week nothing has been said on the subject. I suppose you know the new
system of telegrams”,1 side 8vo on” Dépêche-Ballon Journal des Évenements du Siège”
headed paper printed with a summary of events 2pp. integral envelope lilac 30 centime
stamp “Monsieur Frederick Shannon / Messrs. Coutt & Co. ‘ 59 Strand, Londres”,
Place de la Bourse, “PD” stamp, counter stamped London W.C. Y.6 No 23 70 Paid,
No. 7 Vendredi 18 Novembre 1870
Ballon Monté a French expression meaning “balloon with pilot”. It can be found on
mail during the siege of Paris (1870-71). For this a higher rate of postage was
charged. Balloons were used because there were no other way to leave the city as the
Germans had surrounded the town. The first ascent was made on 23rd September,
1870. The Siege lasted until the 28th of January 1871.
[Stock ID: 13627 ] £425
7.
BALLON MONTÉ. Shannon (Charles R.) Autograph Letter Signed to “My
dearest Fred, What a sad, sad Xmas and New Year” “ - All the horrors of war and a
most intense frost!... Do you think that thro’
Prince Christian Augustenbourg... you could send
me your letters - I knew him well when I was in
Germany with his Uncle. One of our Clerks
received a letter from London yesterday I suppose
it came thro’ Washburn the American
Plenipotentiary in Paris.”1 side 8vo. on “LettreJournal de Paris” headed paper, with a printed
summary of events by D. Jouast 2pp. integral
envelope “Mr. Frederick Shannon / Messrs.
Coutts / 59 Strand / London,” lilac 30 centime
stamp, Place de la Bourse, “PD”, counter stamped
London W.C. JA 3 71, small hole with loss at seal
Paris No. 20 Mecredi 28 Décembre, 1870
Ballon Monté a French expression meaning
“balloon with pilot”. It can be found on mail
during the siege of Paris (1870-71). For this a
higher rate of postage was charged. Balloons
were used because there were no other way to
leave the city as the Germans had surrounded the
town. The first ascent was made on 23rd
September, 1870. The Siege lasted until the 28th of January 1871.
[Stock ID: 13626 ] £450
8.
BEECH (Thomas, Cabinet Maker) Autograph Letter Signed to K.L.
Williams Esquire, 2 pp. 8vo, with small pencil sketch of the base and “swan” pillar of
a table, 10 West Street, Walworth Road, Jan. 28th 1857
“I received your letter yesterday and wish to know what I am to do about the wood
whether I am to finish it, or set it at the office”, he finishes “You can give me a correct
idea of the plan of the base (beneath the bodies of the swans) I have marked it below
as in the drawing you have sent.”
[Stock ID: 13611 ] £50
9.
BERENSON (Bernard) Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, A List of the
Principle Artists and their Works with an Index of Places... Central Italian and
North Italian Schools, 3 vols, [with] The Venetian School, 2 vols.1998 &
1333 illusts. together 5 vols. 4to. original cloth dw’s. a little wear, London & New
York, Phaidon, 1957-1968
Extra Postal Charges will be added for these heavy volumes.
[Stock ID: 13657 ] £450
10.
BIBLE.
Krauss (Johann Ulrich)
Historicher Bilder Bibel, 5 parts in 1 vol. 5
engraved titles, 136 plates, 5 printed titles and 4
pp.text, 3 plates expertly repaired, margin of 1st
engraved title strengthened, folio, original calf, gilt
spine worn, Augsburg, Johann Ulrich Krauss
1700
Johann Ulrich Kraus (1655–1719) was an early
German illustrator, engraver and publisher in
Augsberg. This work became and apotheosis for
designers and engravers of Cartouches and
decoration in the Baroque era, illustrating
facility and inventiveness of his business.
Although his business suffered during the War of
the Spanish Succession he nevertheless became a
thriving, prosperous and respected citizen of
Augsberg.
[Stock ID: 13559 ] £850
MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES
11.
BOARD GAME. AERONAUTICAL GERMAN BOARD GAME. A
Chromolithographed Board Game Showing 18 Types of Early Aircraft, A Seaside Scene
with a Fortress, a Pier, a Lighthouse, an Armoured Battleship, a Sailing Ship and
Crowds of Spectators,4 coloured sheets mounted on 4 joined boards, 39½ x 14 ins.
without instructions. in fine bright condition, Bavaria, J.W. S & S. [1910]
Much of the British Colour Printing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
century was done in Bavaria. The superiority of the raw materials had lead to the
build up of the Chromolithographic Industry in Germany.
[Stock ID: 13588 ] £500
12.
BOLAS (THOMAS ed.) The Year - Book of Photography, and Photographic
News Almanac,for 1886 - 1889,216, 216, 216, 216 pp. 1 Stanotype, 1 mounted
Woodburytype, 1 photogravure, & 1 Woodburytype frontispieces, numerous text
illusts. and diagrammes, 4 vols in one, thk.sm8vo, binders cloth, slight wear, London,
Piper & Carter, 1886 - 1889
[Stock ID: 13579 ] £200
13.
BOLAS (THOMAS ED.) The Year Book of Photography, and Photographic
News Almanac for 1887,Woodburytype frontis. numerous text illusts. and diagrams,
54 unnumbered + i-xlvii adverts + 216 pp. + xlix-clx + 18 unnumbered adverts, sm8vo,
modern binders cloth, London, Piper & Carter, 1887
[Stock ID: 13580 ] £150
14.
CADBURY (Edward 1873-1948) Signed Decorative Leaving Presentation
Certificate “Presented to Annie Harvey by the Directors of
Cadbury Bros.Ltd. on leaving Bournville as a small Token
of appreciation of 6¾ years Faithful Service February 26th
1908
for
the
Directors
Edward
Cadbury”,chromolithograph, floral and gilt border, 9 x 6
ins. some surface soiling,
Edward Cadbury was the founder of the firm of
Cadbury’s, and was himself a philanthropist and Pioneer
on Work and Management Organisations. He was one of
the founders of the Selly Oak Colleges which later merged
into the University of Birmingham.
[Stock ID: 13631 ] £35
15.
CATHOLICISM. MANNING (Cardinal Henry Edward 1808 - 1892)
Oval Woodburytype Portrait Head and Shoulders, 4½ x 3½ ins
within a decorative printed border, letterpress, 11 x 8 ins. London,
[Lock & Whitfield], c.1875
Along with Cardinal Henry Newman, Manning was at the head
of the Roman Catholic Church in England. He was instrumental
for the building of Westminster Cathedral. He was very
influential in setting the direction of the modern Catholic Church.
[Stock ID: 13563 ] £65
16.
CHRISTY MINSTRELS. Ten Little Niggers. The
Celebrated Serio-Comic Song Sung by G.W. Moore, of the Original Christy Minstrels,
at St. James’s Hall, Piccadilly, Words by Frank Green, Music by Mark Mason,pictorial
lithographed title by Alfred Concannen a little foxed, + 5 pp of music + 1 pp advert.
13½ x 9½ ins 34.5 x 24 cm, folio, disbound, London, Hopwood and Crew, c.1870
Christy's Minstrels, sometimes referred to as the Christy Minstrels, were a blackface
group formed by Edwin Pearce Christy, a well-known ballad singer, in 1843, in
Buffalo, New York.
After their disbandment after the death of Edwin
Christy, J. W. Raynor and Earl Pierce formed a new
troupe, using many of the former Christy Minstrel
members. It opened in London, England as "Raynor
& Pierce's Christy Minstrels" at the St. James's
Theatre on 3 August 1857. They then performed at
the Surrey Theatre and later the "Polygraphic Hall"
on King William Street, where they appeared for ten
months. "Nellie Grey" by Michael Balfe, as sung by
Raynor, became popular. In 1859, the troupe moved
to the St. James's Hall (Liverpool), performing for
another four months and then touring the British
provinces. It then returned to Polygraphic Hall,
disbanding in August 1860. The success of this
troupe led to the phrase "Christy Minstrels" coming
to mean any blackface minstrel show. Soon, four
new companies were formed, each claiming to be the
"original" Christy Minstrels, because they each boasted one or two former members
of the old troupe. One group played in Dublin at the Chester Theatre in 1864,
moving to London at the Standard Theatre in Shoreditch in 1865. Three months
later, it moved to St. James's Hall, where it began a run of 35 years until 1904. A
printed comment on the cover under the portrait of Moore, reads “Sung by the
Great Comedian 300 times consecutively at St. James’s Hall”.
[Stock ID: 13618 ] £75
17.
CLARETIE (Jules) Récits de Guerre, Paris Assiégé 1870-1871, 10 folding
coloured plates after oil paintings by Alphonse De Neuville,
numerous other illustrations by a variety of artists including
Gustave Doré’s Le Marseillaise, numerous photographs, ep’s a
little browned, 4to, original decorative cloth, gilt, Paris, Goupil
& Co. 1871
[Stock ID: 13473 ] £175
18.
WESTELL STIPPLE ENGRAVINGS
COMMON PRAYER (The Book of) And Administration of The
Sacraments, and Other Rites of The Church, According to the
Use of the United Church of England and Ireland: together
with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be
Sung or Said in Churches,12 stipple engravings by I.S. Agar
after designs by Richard Westall, some occasional light
spotting, 4to, full crushed red morocco, gilt panels, bands gilt
gilt dentelles, aeg, some slight wear, London Whittingham
and Arliss, 1815
[Stock ID: 13536 ] £375
19.
CRUICKSHANK (George, Caricaturist an Book Illustrator,17921878) A Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Lahee 2 sides, 8vo, crested headed
note paper 263 Hampstead Road, NW,
May 12th, 1866
“The volume you allude to is a reprint
of an article written by my late dear
friend Thackeray - for the Westminster
Review and I had hoped to have been
able to send you a copy” but instead he
refers him to “Mr. Gibbs a Prinstseller
in Newport Street St. Martins Lane, or
Mr. Harvey, Bookseller St. James’s
Street or Mr. Pailthorpe at No 7 Grays
Inn Passage, Bedford Row.”
[Stock ID: 13637 ] £150
20.
DIBDIN (Charles 1745 - 1814 musician, songwriter, dramatist,
novelist and actor) A Collection of 20 Engraved Songs by Charles Dibdin including
10 signed by him,12½ x 9½ ins 32 x 24 cm. some wear, occasional folds, some repairs,
c.1790
1. Poor Jack. A Favorite Song in the Whim of a Moment, 4 pp. folds, Preston & Son.
2. The Sailor’s Sheet Anchor, a favorite Sea Song, 4 pp. 1st page repaired, Preston &
Son.
3. The Flowering Can written and composed by Mr. Dibdin for his entertainment
called The Oddities, 3 pp. signed at the bottom of the first page, printed and sold by
the Author.
4. Roses and Lilies, written and composed by Mr. Dibdin, for his Entertainment
called Private Theatricals of Nature in Nubibus, 4 pp. restored at folds, signed
printed and sold by the Author.
5. The Dustmen, written and composed by Mr. Dibdin for his entertainment, called
The Wags, or the Camp of Pleasures, 3 pp. signed at the bottom of the first page,
printed and sold by the Author.
6. The True Hearted Tar being a Sequel to The Disconsolate Sailor, 2 pp. Preston and
Son.
7. The Tear of Sensibility Written and composed by Mr. Dibdin and sung by him in
his new Entertainment called Castles in the Air, 3 pp. stained, folded and repaired,
signed on the first page, printed and sold by the author.
8. Ben Backstay written and composed by Mr. Dibdin for his entertainment called
The Oddities, 3 pp. Printed and Sold by the Author.
9. Spirits of Distree, a favorite song composed by Mr. Dibdin, & Sung by him with
the greatest applause at his late Readings at Bath, Bristol, Worcester, The University
of Oxford, 3 pp. printed and sold by the author.
10. The Virtue of Drunkenness written & composed by Mr. Dibdin, for his
entertainment called The Wags, or the Camp of Pleasure, 3 pp. signed on the first
page, 3 pp. folded and repaired,printed and sold by the Author.
11 I was, d’ye see, a Waterman, A Favorite Ballad Composed and Sung at the Lyceum
in the Strand By Charles Dibdin, and at the
Anacreontic Society by Mr. Dignum, 3 pp.
Longman and Broderip.
12. The Shipwreck written and composed
by Mr. Dibdin & sung with the greatest
applause in the Wags, 3 pp. signed on the
first page, printed and sold for the Author.
13. Lovely Polly A Favorite Song Written,
Composed, and Sung by Mr. Dibdin, 3 pp.
Preston & Son.
14. The Lucky Escape written & composed
by Mr. Dibdin, for his entertainment called
Private Theatricals or Nature in Nubibus,
name on title, 3 pp. signed on the first
page, printed and sold for the Author.
15. The siege of Troy, a favorite song
Composed by Mr. Dibdin, & Sung by him
with greatest applause at his late Readings
and Music, 3 pp. Preston & Son.
16. The Waggoner, written and composed
by Mr. Dibdin for his entertainment called
Private Theatricals or Nature in Nubibus, 3 pp. signed by the author on the first
page.
17. The Indian Battle written and composed by Mr. Dibdin at the Lyceum, 4 pp.
Preston & Son.
18. Wives and Sweethearts or Saturday Night, a favorite song Written, Composed &
Sung, by Mr. Dibdin, at the Lyceum, 4 pp. Preston & Son.
19. Home’s Home, written and composedby Mr. Dibdin, and sung by him in his new
Entertainment called Great News or a Trip to the Antipodes, 4 pp. signed on the first
page, Printed & Sold by the Author.
20. Second Thoughts are best, written & composed by Mr. Dibdin and Sung by him
in his New Entertainment called Will of the Wisp, 3 pp. signed on the first page,
Printed and Sold by the Author.
[Stock ID: 13620 ] £550
21. DORE GERMAN BIBLE. Die Heilige Schrift Alten und
Neuen Testaments verdeutscht von D. Martin Luther. Mit
zweihundert un dreissig Bilderen von Gustave Doré,230 plates
by Doré, there are 11 plates omitted in the German edition
from the French and 3 extra plates, the text is elaborately
decorated in the margins, on exceptionally good pape, with
very occasional spotting, 2 vols thick large folio, original
decorative embossed red leather, all edges gilt, Stuttgart,
Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, [1875]
The German edition of Doré’s Bible was elaborately and
expensively produced. The paper and bindings are of
superior quality to anything that the French and English
Publishers produced. The extra decoration in the text could be said to detract from
this edition, but the printing of his electrotype plates is suberb.
[Stock ID: 13593 ] £1200
22.
DORÉ (GUSTAVE) & Alfred Tennyson. Elaine Illustrated by Gustave
Doré, 9 steel engraved plates, some occasional foxing, folio, 16 x 12 ins. original
pictorial cloth, gilt, some small marks on upper cover, London, Edward Moxon & Co.
1867
Of all Doré’s engraved works this is the finest. These are the
only illustrations which were steel engraved. The courtly
romance, sensuality and chivalry that Prince Albert had
admired in the verses, Doré translates in to vibrant black and
white. Doré met Queen Victoria at a Garden Party in 1875 and
conversed happily with her. She had bought his “Le Psaltérion”
at the Salon in 1870, for Windsor Castle.
[Stock ID: 13642 ] £350
23.
DORÉ (GUSTAVE) & Alfred Tennyson. Enid,
Illustrated by Gustave Doré, 9 steel engraved plates, some occasional foxing, folio, 16
x 12 ins. original bright pictorial cloth, gilt London, Edward Moxon & Co. 1868
.
[Stock ID: 13643 ] £350
24.
DORÉ (GUSTAVE) & Alfred Tennyson. Guinevere, Illustrated by Gustave
Doré, 9 steel engraved plates, some occasional foxing, folio, 16 x 12 ins. original
pictorial cloth, gilt, some marks on upper and lower cover,
London, Edward Moxon & Co. 1867
[Stock ID: 13645 ] £350
25. DORÉ (GUSTAVE) & Alfred Tennyson. Vivien,
Illustrated by Gustave Doré, 9 steel engraved plates, some
occasional foxing, folio, 16 x 12 ins. original pictorial cloth, gilt,
some marks on upper and lower cover, London, Edward
Moxon & Co. 1867
26. DORÉ (GUSTAVE) & BLANCHARD JERROLD.
London. A Pilgrimage, FIRST EDITION, 180 illustrations
including 52 full page plates, some occasional foxing, all edges gilt, large 4to, 16 x 12½
ins. contemporary hf. crushed red morocco, some slight wear and rubbing, the upper
cover has some damp making to the cloth alone, London, Grant & Co. 1872
One of Doré’s greatest works. He produced
the drawings for this work under great
emotional strain. France was involved in the
Franco-Prussian War and his brother was a
soldier in it. With Jerrold he had walked the
streets of London, like Dickens and Wilkie
Collins before, at night and viewed the
working of the City, the London Labourers
and the London Poor. At this period he had
also attended a Garden Party with Queen
Victoria with
whom he had a long
conversation. He experienced all the delights
of the London Season, from the Boat Race, the
Derby and various Balls and Salons. His
work was criticised for its exposure of the less
salubrious side of the city, from its Opium
Dens, the homeless and the ugly back streets,
at the same time gently mocking Society
Ladies admiring Monkeys in cages from the
animals point of view, and the prisoners
exercise yard which inspired Van Gogh. The British Public were not amused with
what had promised to be a light and entertaining work. Instead of a work of
uncomfortable social reflection of the juxtaposition between wealth and poverty, the
upper classes and the working and disposessed. The text by Blanchard Jerrold is
light and amusing, hardly reflecting the grim realities of Doré’s representation.
[Stock ID: 13641 ] £950
PLATES BY WENCESLAUS HOLLAR A ND O T HE R S
27.
DUGDALE (William) and Roger Dodsworth. Monasticon Anglicanum,
Sive Pandectae Coenobiorum Bendictionorum Cluniacensium Cisterciensium
Carthusianorum a Primordiis Ad Eorum Usque Dissolutionem...Second Edition of
volume 1, First Editions of volumes 2 & 3, engraved title, (xxxii) + 1151 pp, 57 plates
including the folding map of Thanet, (xx) + 1057 + xlvi pp, 29 plate,also text illusts.
(vi) + 393 + 218 pp. 20 plates, together 3 vols, 106 plates, folio, full contemporary
calf, spines laid down, rubbed, small
contemporary library label on engraved
title “Ex Libris D.Mazet.” London, &
Savoy, Christopher Wilkinson, Alice
Warren, & Thomas Newcombe, 1682,
1661 & 1673
“The publication was productive of
many law-suits, by the revival of old
writings; and the puritans were highly
offended at it, as they looked upon it as
a preparatory step to introducing
popery.” - Lowndes.
[Stock ID: 13634 ] £2250
28.
EDUCATION. Vaughan (Rev. Charles John 1816 - 1897) Oval
Woodburytype Portrait Head and Shoulders,4½ x 3½ ins within a decorative printed
border, letterpress, 11 x 8 ins. London, Lock & Whitfield, c1875
Dean of Llandaff and Master of the Temple, Vaughan is remembered
for his time as Headmaster of Harrow and his relationship with John
Addington Symonds.
[Stock ID: 13566 ] £50
29.
EDWARD III. ATHOLL (David of Strathbogie or Strabolgi, 13271369, from 1335 13th Earl of Atholl)
A Fine Charter on Vellum with Seal
Intact, granting his uncle Sir Aymer of Atholl, of Strathbogie, (c. 1311-1402),
brother of the grantor’s father David of Strathbogie (1309-1335, 12th Earl of Atholl),
the reversion of the Manor and Village of Felton in Northumberland, (9 miles South
of Alnwick), in Norman French with translation, currently held by the Lady Mary de
St Pol Countess of Pembroke (c. 1304-1377, daughter of Guy de St Pol, second
wife, 1321, of the famous Sir Aymer de Valence, (d. 1324, from 1307 11th Earl of
Pembroke), at a rent of Six Marks (four pounds) per annum in two equal instalments
at Pentecost and Martinmas, together with all the ‘services, profits and easements’ due
to the ‘Lords in Chief of the Fee’, the grantor guaranteeing for himself and his heirs to
defend the grantee in his tenure ‘for ever ... against all folk’, quoting as witnesses to
the sealing ‘Edmund of Cornwall Richard Stanley John of Atholl knights Gilbert
Delwyke William de Molleston Symond de Rilleston and several others’,11¾ x 5½
ins. folded, with the Earl’s seal, 1 inch diameter, bearing paly of seven, in a quatrefoil
shield with crest and supporters, a little rubbed but with clear outlines, lacking only
part of the legend which reads ‘sigi[llum] ... de atteles’ (‘seal ... of Atholl’). (The Duke
of Atholl now bears or and sable, paly of six as his
principal charge). Endorsed in Latin ‘Enrolled in the
memoranda of the Exchequer in the 15th Year of King
Richard II ... Easter Term ... on the application of the
Remembrancer of the Treasury [1392]’.
London,
‘Friday of the week of the Holy Trinity in the year of the
reign of King Edward the Third from the Conquest of
England the Thirty Fourth’, 5th June 1360
Strathbogie, where the grantee lived in Strathbogie
Castle, is the district based on Huntly, Aberdeenshire.
The grantor’s grandfather David (d. 1326, 11th Earl of
Atholl) had been Constable of Scotland and Chief
Warden of Northumberland. His wife Joan (née
Comyn) was a granddaughter of Sir William de
Valence, (d. 1296, Lord of Pembroke) and heir to her
mother’s brother Sir Aymer de Valence (d. 1324). The latter had bought Felton in
1315 from John de Stuteville, but had included it in his second wife’s dowry. Now the
grantor seeks to secure the reversion to his family, given the Lady Mary’s longevity,
though without any current payment to himself.
Mary de St Pol Countess of Pembroke was well connected. Her father William
was a half-brother of Henry III. Her mother, Mary of Brittany, was a cousin of
Edward II. In England, in spite of her large estates, she was thought of as French
and during the wars with France was twice exempted from the measures against
aliens. The famous monument of her husband in Westminster Abbey is due to her, as
is her founding in 1347 of Pembroke College, Cambridge. For the full translation see
Edward III on www.clivefarahar.com
[Stock ID: 13575 ] £1350
JAH RASTAFARI THE LION OF JUDAH
30.
HAILE SELASSIE (1892-1975 Emperor of Ethiopia) Fine Letter Signed
as Emperor in Exile to Professor J.L. Brierly, written in a neat Secretarial Hand in
Amharic on a single page of Crested Paper, signed at the base, 1 p. 4to, filing hole in
top right hand corner, Fairfield, Bath “2nd day of Nenassie 1930, “ 8th August, 1938
After the Italian Invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, Haile
SelassieHaile Selassie spent his exile years (1936–1941)
in Bath, England, in Fairfield House, which he had
puchased. Professor Brierly was an international
lawyer. He was one of the advisors to the Emperor and
his Delegation to the League of Nations in May 1938,
when he insisted that the question of Ethiopian
Sovereignty be referred to the Court of Internation al
Justice at the Hague.
Mussolini, after the invasion has systematically used
Chemical Weapons against the population and livestock
of Ethiopia. The Emperor had stood in the way of Italian
Expansion in East Africa, and Mussolini used these
dracaonian measures as a retribution for previous
Italian defeats in the region.
[Stock ID: 13585 ] £950
31.
[HENRY VI] OTEWY (John of Chelmondiston, on the Orwell, 6
miles SE of Ipswich, Suffolk) Fine Indented Deed on Vellum with his Seal Intact,
in Latin with transcription and translation, conveying “to Thomas Brandiston of the
said village two pieces of [arable] land” in Chelmondiston, both “in the field called
Rapton Field”, the first measures two acres between land belonging to Seman Write
and ‘Choland Land’, and between land formerly John Brandiston’s on the West and
currently John Salter’s on the East, the second measures four acres between the land
of Thomas de Appleton and ‘Choland Land’, and between John Brandiston’s and
Robert Teye’s on the East and Augustine de Stratton’s Wood on the West, subject only
to Thomas Brandiston paying Two Pence per annum to Otewy or his heirs to cover all
the superior feudal “services aids customary dues suits of the court and demesne”,
however, if Otewy or his heirs or assigns fail to guarantee or defend Brandiston’s
tenure, they will convey to him unconditionally “one Close ... called Pontaynys situated
in the said village”, with the list of witnesses “Richard
Hachman Thomas Tydy Roger Reed William Fuller
Thomas Runtyng Thomas Fuller John Andrew and
many others”1 side 4 x 12¾. ins.
folded,
Chelmondiston, Feast of the Annunciation in the 12th
Year of the Reign of Henry, Sixth after the Conquest
[25th March 1434]
The main charge in Otewy’s attractive seal, 1inch
diameter, is a Pheon (arrowhead), in a high gothic
ogival frame of four points. Between each pair of points
is a small tracery design.
Small defects at former fold in line 6 and at end of line 7
(wording easily supplied), seal a little rubbed including
legend, otherwise in fine condition
[Stock ID: 13623 ] £750 For the full translation and transcription see Henry VI on
www.clivefarahar.com
32.
JACK THE RIPPER. Gull (Sir William 1816 - 1890) Oval
Woodburytype Portrait Head and Shoulders4½ x 3½ ins within a
decorative printed border, letterpress, 11 x 8 ins. London, Lock &
Whitfield
Physician-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria, Gull has been cited as the
serial killer “Jack the Ripper”.
[Stock ID: 13565 ] £65
“I HAVE BEEN BORN AND RAISED IN A QUANDRY AND WILL
CERTAINLY DIE IN ONE” FRAGMENTS FROM A
SURREALIST’S LIFE.
33.
JAMES (Edward 1907-1984 Poet and Surrealist) A Collection of 3
Pamphlet volumes of Poetry, 24 Letters, Envelopes, notes, photographs, from Edward
James to his Secretary Charlotte Worth, including the typescript of her address to the
Edward James Symposium, and an unpublished draft corrected typescript of Rollo
Peters “Memoirs”, 6 Fine Damask Monogrammed Napkins and a Tablecloth,3
pamphlet volumes of poetry, 24 letters and notes on envelopes, 100 sides and 6
photographs, Worth Memoir, with 6 linen Monogrammed Napkins and a Tablecloth,
the Worth Memoirs 11pp, Peters Memoirs, 317 pp, 1955-1980
Edward James influence among the Surrealists Movement was inestimable. His
patronage and inspiration, particularly with Salvador Dali, inspiring such icons as
the Lobster Telephone and the Mae West Sofas. Also with Rene Magritte, whom he
allowed to live rent free in London, and who immortalised James in his paintings,
Le Principe du Plaisir and La Reproduction Interdite, a painting also known as Not
to be Reproduced, of the the back of James’s head looking into a mirror showing the
back of his head . For the full description see http://www.clivefarahar.com/downloads
[Stock ID: 13624 ] £15,000
HOW I DETEST AND DESPISE MY ENGLAND. I HAD RATHER BE
A GERMAN... THAN BELONG TO SUCH A NATION OF CRAVEN,
COWARDLY HYPOCRITES. MY CURSE ON THEM!
34.
LAWRENCE (David Herbert) A Fine Long Autograph Letter Signed
“D.H.L.”, to his sister-in-law Else Jaffe, complaining bitterly in the wake of Lady
Chatterley’s publication, of the Police raid in June 1929 on his exhibition of paintings
at the Warren Gallery in London, when a number of his paintings were confiscated,
502 words, 4 sides sm.4to, each page 7 x 5½ ins, on lined paper watermarked “ELS”,
overall size 7 x 11 ins. folded, marginal ink stains, faint rust stain on central fold,
Hotel Löwen, Lichtenthal, 13 Aug 1929
“Dear Else,
Hans says it rains in Bavaria, and Max Mohr says it rains in Bavaria, so I suppose
it does. Only now I hope it has left off. Here it is quite decent, sunny mornings, cloudy
afternoons, and quite pleasant. The Schwiegermutter [mother-in-law] is here, but
she says she will go back to the Stift on Thursday. On Friday her 'heissgeliebte Anita'
[dearly-beloved Anita] is due to arrive, with the nichtsoheissgeliebter aberdochgeliebter Hinke [not-so-dearly-beloved - but-still-beloved Hinke]: they will
stay a while here in the Löwen. I have never met the Hinke, so I have a joy in store.
We had the 50th Geburtstagfeier [birthday celebration] on Sunday evening, very
noble, Bowle, trout, ducks, and nine people - 3 Halms, 2 Schweikharts, 1 Kugler - and
they all seemed very happy and we all kept it up very bravely. But alas, next day
Frieda was in one of the worst moods I have ever seen her in! - a seelenkater [spiritual
hangover], or however you spell it.
You hear the pictures are to be returned to me, on condition they are never shown
again in England, but sent away to me on the Continent, that they may never pollute
that island of lily-livered angels again. What hypocrisy and poltroonery, and how I
detest and despise my England. I had rather be a German or anything than belong
to such a nation of craven, cowardly hypocrites. My curse on them! They will burn
my four picture books, will they? So it is decreed. But they shall burn through the
thread of their own existence as a nation, at the same time. Delenda est Cartago!
[Carthage must be destroyed!] - but she will destroy herself, amply. Che muoia! [May
she drop dead!]”
After a complaint about the Warren Gallery Exhibition, the police seized thirteen of
the twenty-five paintings (including Boccaccio Story and Contadini). Despite
declarations of support from many writers, artists and members of Parliament,
Lawrence was able to recover his paintings only by agreeing never to exhibit them
in England again. The largest collection of the paintings is now at La Fonda de Taos
hotel in Taos, New Mexico. Several others, including Boccaccio Story and
Resurrection, are at the Humanities Research Centre of the University of Texas at
Austin. The Paintings of D.H. Lawrence was published by the Mandrake Press in
1929.
“Your mother says we are to stay here till middle September. I hope not. We have
been here a month on Thursday, and when the heissgeliebte [cherished] Annie is here
we shall surely be a superfluity. I should like to move in another week or ten days.
Shall we come to Bavaria, to Rottach, do you think? or best go south to Lugano?
I wonder if Hans is setting off across the mountains!
We are going to tea with some Taormina
friends, Americans, who are staying in the
Stephanie! Your mother says: Du wirst was
schönes sehen, das Stephanie! [You will see
something beautiful, the Stephanie!] - It is all I
can do not to make some really rude remark. I
am so sick of all those old lies. It is terrible to
be old, one becomes a bottle of old, but never
mellow lies - lies, lies, lies! everything.
Weisheit der Alten! [Wisdom of the aged!] 19th Century lies. Well I hope it's pleasant in
Irschenhausen. Only today I threw away the
flowers you gathered when you were here and the Toadflax (wilde Löwenmäule [wild
snapdragon]) were still fresh.
Yrs D.H.L.
Remember me to Alfred, and Hans - and is
Marianne better?”
The Letters of D.H.Lawrence, Volume VII. 1928-30. Edited by Keith Sagar & James
T. Boulton. 1993. Cambridge University Press [Cambridge, 1993]. p422-423. At that
time in the collection of Frederick Jeffrey, thence public auction. The references are
to Hans [Jaffe] was Else's youngest child; Anita [von Hinke] was the daughter of
Frieda's younger sister Johanna; Hinke [Ernest von Hinke] who Anita married in
1922; Marianne was Else's daughter.
[Stock ID: 13630 ] £3750
ORIGINAL FIRST PRINTING IN PUNCH
35.
MILNE (A.A.) When We Were Very Young, First Printing in Magazine Form,
25 Poems with original illustrations by E. H.
Sheppard, 4to original decorative cloth Punch,
January - June, 1924
These were later published by Methuen in the
same year.
[Stock ID: 13574 ] £200
36.
NELSON. The Boyhood of Nelson a Silhouette “Églomisé” Scene of a
fisherman and boy with a model ship, painted on glass, small spot flaked, gilt border,
birdseye maple frame, c.1905
Although typically an Arts and Crafts style, this “Souvenir” of Nelson dates from the
centenary anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.
[Stock ID: 13592 ] £375
COMFORTS OF THE GRAND TOUR
37.
[ROWLANDSON (Thomas 1756 - 1827)] "My son Jacky returned from his
travels" watercolour inscribed in pencil, 8½ x 6¾ ins.
The delighted Country Squire and his Wife welcoming home their son back from his
Grand Tour, an imaculate slender dandified figure, in contrast to his adoring, lumpy
parents.
[Stock ID: 13594 ] £3500
38.
RUSSIA. PUSHKIN, Alexander Sergeyevich (1799-1837) Large Cast
Iron Anniversary Medallion of Pushkin, Profile, Head and Shoulders, Celebrating the
150 Anniversary of his death,8½ ins. dated on the front 1837-1937, and on the reverse
“Kacnu 1987” and “CACNAHO - CCCP”, 1987
Pushkin, is considered Russia’s greatest Poet
and the founder of Modern Russian
Literature. His most famous works are the
drama Boris Godunov, and his novel in verse,
Eugene Onegin.
He claimed ancestry
through Scandinavian and German Royalty.
Pushkin's great-grandfather, was Abram
Petrovich Gannibal (1696–1781), an African
page raised by Peter the Great. Always
sensitive about his “Honour” he fought many
duels. The final one was with a French
Officer who attempted to seduce his wife. His
early death at 37 years, was considered a
catastrophy for Russian Literature.
[Stock ID: 13107 ] £125
39.
[SEAMAN (Owen)] Mr. Punch’s History of the Great War, xvi + 302 pp.
some occasional spotting, thk.8vo, original cloth gilt, London, Cassell and Company,
1919
A small compilation from the War Years’ Editions Punch, made useful with a good
index.
[Stock ID: 13553 ] £100
FIRST WORLD WAR ISSUES OF PUNCH
40.
[SEAMAN (Sir Owen)] PUNCH Or the London Chiarivari, numerous
cartoons, artists including Bernard Partridge, L. Raven Hill, F.H. Townsend,
“Fougasse” Kenneth Bird, & H.M. Bateman, 12 biannual vols, 4to. original pictorial
cloth, gilt, uneavenly faded, some little wear, London, Punch, 10 Bouverie Street,
E.C.4 1914-1919
At the turn of the 20th Century Punch, begun
in 1841 by Henry Mayhew, was at the height
of its readership, providing “humour and
satire” to the Victorians. The New Century
brought with it the remains of the Boer War,
the Death of Queen Victoria, and a curiously
peaceful era which on the death of Edward
VII, began to crack with the events in Russia
and Europe. Punch reflected this change and
with its’ coverage of the First World War.
From the Propaganda perspective, Punch
was in the forefront of the the Prose, Poetry
and Illustration of that conflict.
Nothing
could have been so strong, uncomfortable and
emotive as Bernard Partridge’s “Cartoons”
during the invasion of Belgium in August
1914. His depiction in the 23rd August issue of
a German Officer, with banner in one hand and a smoking gun in the other, standing
over a dead Belgian family amidst the ruins of Louvian, or on October 21st
“Unconquerable” of the Kaiser to the King of the Belgians amidst the ruins of his
country “So, you see - you’ve lost everything” to which the King replies “Not my soul”,
were searchlights to the emotion and anger felt by the British.
[Stock ID: 13549 ] £650
41.
SHACKLETON. Klein (H.O.) Head and Shoulders Portrait Photograph,
fully facing, signed in pencil in the top righthand corner
“H.O. Klein 1912”,14½ x 10 ins. mounted on board,
small abrasions to surface, 1912
Shackleton (1874-1922) had just returned from his
Nimrod “Farthest South” Expedition, and was about to
embark on his “Endurance” TransAntarctic Expedition
in 1914-17. Taken in the year of Scott reaching the Pole,
Shackleton was already planning his next great
journey, although it was not across Antarctica, but
after the Endurance had been crushed in the ice, it was
the open boat journey and his own and his crew’s
personal endurance that was remembered.
[Stock ID: 13070 ] £650
42.
SHAKESPEARE. First Report of the National Shakespearian Fund. dropped
head title, signed on title “C. Lahee”, 8 pp. sm.4to, disbound, signs of mounting,
Chiswick Press, March, 1862
“This Fund was estabvlished in October, 1861, to accomplish the following objects, 1. The Purchase of the Gardens of Shakespeare at New Place. 2. The purchase of the
remainder of the Birth-place Estate. 3. The purchase of Anne Hathaway’s Cottage,
with an endowment and custodian. 4. The purchase of Getley’s Copyhold, Stratfordon-Avon. 5. The purchase of any other properties, at or near Stratford-on-Avon, that
either formerly belonged to Shakespeare, or are intimately connected with the
memoried of his life. 6. The calendering and preservation of those records at
Streatford-on-Avon which illustrate the Poet’s life, or the Social History of Stratfordon-Avon which illustrate the Poet’s life, or the social history of Stratford-on-Avon in
his time. And 7. The erection and endowment of a Public Library and Museum at
Stratford-on-Avon.”
[Stock ID: 13614 ] £35
43.
SHAKESPEARE. The Shakespeare Night, in aid of the Fund for the Purchase
and Preservation of Shakespeare’s House, is fixed for Tuesday, December 7, at the
Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden,... The Musical Arrangements, which will be
Illustrative of Shakespeare’s Plays, under the Direction of Sir Henry Bishop,3 pp.
sm.4to, signs of mounting, the date filled in in ink, London 1847
Patrons include the Queen and Prince Albert, Charles, Dickens and Harrison
Ainsworth.
[Stock ID: 13615 ] £50
UNDER THE GREENWOOD SHADE
44.
SOMERSET MUSIC. SACRED AND SECULAR MUSIC IN DOULTING
PARISH. A Collection of Seven Manuscript Music Books from the Collection of
William Davis whose name appears on the flyleaf of 2 of them,593 pages of
manuscript, sm.4to. oblong 4to. mostly disbound, [Doulting, Somerset], early 19th.
Century,
1. Music Book Hand Ruled with 12 staves, 64 pages, oblong folio, 11½ x 9¼ ins.
leather spine, boards worn, inscribed Doulting March 3rd. 1818 “And you might say
God Save the King if you think proper.”
Nine Anthems, For Funerals, Easter Day, and ones based on various Psalms, 10
chants for Psalms.
2. Music Book Hand Ruled with 4 staves, 128 pages, oblong 4to, 8 x 6½ ins. leather
boards, worn, spine cracked, inscribed “William Davis Doulting 1834”.
Forty Love Songs with words and music including “Under the Greenwood Shade”,
“Harvest Home”, “Disconsolate Virgin”, “Sylvia”, “Lotharia”, “Never Say Plain
Truth”, with patriotic songs “Smile Britannia” and “To Arms Britons Strike Home”,
also a setting of the “Wiches [sic] Glee” from Shakespeare’s Macbeth “When shall we
three meet again...”.
3. Music Book Hand Ruled with 6 staves, 98 pages, oblong 4to, 8 x 6¼ ins.
Twenty Sacred Texts, Anthems, and 21 songs with 2 or more parts, including a
version of Gibbons “Silver Swan”, 3 by Henry Purcell, 1 by John Blow, a “Meditation
upon death” by Edward Lambert, Patriotic Songs “Fight English Hearts - conquer
France and Spain”.
4. Music Book Hand Ruled with 4 staves, 111 pages, oblong 4to, 8 x 4½ ins. inscribed
Shepton Mallett.
Sixty Tunes and Songs, “Bony’s Voyage to Elba”, “The Woodpecker”, “The Downfall
of Paris”, “The Copenhagen Waltz”, “God Save the King”, “God Save the Emperor”,
and “The Bunkers Hill March”.
5.6. & 7. Three Music Books Hand Ruled with 4 staves, 66, 82, and 48 pages,
including 6 Christmas Carols, “From Bruton”, “ Three wise men by a star was
brought”, “Let Christians all with one accord”, “Awake, Arise,”, “Shepherds Rejoice”,
“ Rejoice ye earthly tribes”.
This Collection is a rare survival of West Gallery Music. It is often know as
Georgian Psalmody and was music for Churches sung and played in the West
Gallery mostly during the 18th and early 19th century, before the general use of
Organs. Thomas Hardy’s Melstock Choir would have used music books like these.
Thomas George Webster’s painting “A Villiage Choir” in the Victoria and Albert
Museum,
shows
such
a
choir
and
their
music
books.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AThomas_Webster__A_Village_Choir.jpg
The music sung by gallery choirs often consisted of metrical psalm settings by
composers with little formal training, often themselves local teachers or choir
members. Out of Church the musicians and choir accompanied local gatherings, at
dances other festivities.
William Davis (1795-1872) was born in Shepton Mallett and died in Doulting.
According to the 1839 Tithe Commutation he occupied a number of pastures, fields
and farmhouses in Doulting, rented from William Melliar, including Hurling Pot
Farm, where he is recorded as living in the censuses of 1841, 1851 and 1871.
[Stock ID: 13636 ] £2500
THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND AND THE BURNING BUSH
45.
STANLEY (Very Rev. A.P. Dean of Westminster) Notes for A
Manuscript Sermon, “Exodus III. 2 The Bush was not consumed”, delivered in
Glasgow written on 42 sides, with 31 sides of corrections and notes on the verso, total
of 73 pp. sm.4to, contemporary boards, leather spine, rubbed, lettered in gilt,
This important sermon appears to have been written out by an amanuensis, whose
script is clear, and amended and added to by the Dean on the verso and whose typical
handwriting is febrile, and very difficult to read.
Stanley had great enthusiasms for Scotland and the Scottish People. Sir Walter Scot
was his favourite author. “The Church of Scotland, established and Presbyterian,
was specially acceptable to Stanley as both a church both national in character and
reformed in its beliefs... The Scotch delighted him, and if he could ever get one with
ever so slight a taint of heresy to speak in the Abbey, it was a great delight to him.” Peter Hammond “Dean Stanley of Westminster”, 1987.
Stanley writes “It was not without reason that the Church of Scotland has chosen the
burning bush as a symbol of its history and its destiny. Struggling on to existence in
the ages preceding the reformation against barbarism which existed in the same
degree in hardly no other part of the British Isles, struggling at the time of the
Reformation when it assumed its present form against the domination / despotism
of Kings, and the contentious nobles, torn by evil discord, repressed by cruel
persecutions it nevertheless won.” Stanley continues with a rallying call to the
Scottish Presbyterian’s and praise “The winter of depression and rebuke is past; the
long generation that followed the disruption of 1843, during which vacant places
were of necessity filled by inefficient or unworthy pastors, is now over. The burden
of that long interval was borne by a few strong faithful men. Norman MacLeod first
and foremost, the Barony of this Church of this City. John Robertson of the Cathedral
of Glasgow...”.
For a transcript please see the website http://www.clivefarahar.com/book/4791/stanley-veryrev-ap-dean-of-westminster-a-manuscript-sermon-exodus-iii-2-the-bush-was-not-consumed
.
[Stock ID: 13394 ] £650
ZA46. TENNYSON
(Alfred Lord) and John
Blockley. The Charge of the Light Brigade, Balaclava,
Sheet Music Cover by Stannard & Dixon, and Music by John
Blockley,lithograph cover, depicting a Cavalry Officer
amidst the turmoil of the Charge, a few spots on cover, 7 pp
+ advertisement of Blockley’s 29 Tennyson settings, 13½ x
9½ ins 34.5 x 24 cm, disbound, London, John Blockley, 3
Argyll St. Regent Street W. c1875
John Blockley 1800 -1883, was also known for his settings
of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetry.
[Stock ID: 13619 ] £95
47.
TENNYSON (Emily, wife of Alfred, 1813-1896) Autograph Letter in the
Third Person for her husband Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, “Mr Alfred Tennyson
presents his compliments to Mr. Lahee and begs to say that as far as he is concerned
Mr. Lahee is welcome to make use of the word of the Sleeping Beauty for his music,
but the permission of Messrs Strahan is also necessary before publishing them.”1 side
8vo, blind stamped Farringford, Jany. 1871
Alexander Strahan was “a power to be reckoned with” in the
publishing world of the 1860’s and 70’s. However his zeal
and loose business practices led him into debt. In 1868 he
persuaded Tennyson into a five year contract. However in
1872 he was forced to resign from his own company, as his
creditors accused him of paying Tennyson and other
authors too lavishly for their work.
[Stock ID: 13639 ] £85
CATO STREET CONSPIRICY
48.
THISTLEWOOD ( Arthur) Broadside will a head and shoulder profile
portrait of Arthur Thistlewood, and views of the Exterior and Interior of the Hay
Loft where the Conspiritors were apprehended, with a summary of the moment when
a detachment of Foot Guards under Captain Fitzclarence, son of the Duke of Clarence,
caught Arthur Thistlewood and his co-conspirators arming themselves before the
Assassination Attempt of his Majesties Ministers, steel engraving, 10½ X 6 ins. 6.7 X
5.2 cm. fold marks, London, R. Miller, 24, Old Fish Street, Doctors’ Commons, 1820
The Cato Street Conspiracy was an attempt to
murder all the British cabinet ministers and Prime
Minister Lord Liverpool in 1820. The Cato Street
Conspiracy is notable for dissenting public opinions
regarding the punishment of the conspirators.
While some supported the attempts to ensure that
the Spencean Philanthropists were found guilty,
others remained conflicted because of the demand of
parliamentary reform.
The conspirators were called the Spencean
Philanthropists, taking their name from the British
radical speaker Thomas Spence. They were known
for being a revolutionary organization, involved in
minor unrest and propaganda.
Some of them, particularly Arthur Thistlewood,
had been involved with the Spa Fields riots in 1816.
Thistlewood came to dominate the group with
George Edwards as his second in command. Most of
the members were angered by the Six Acts and the
Peterloo Massacre, as well as with the economic and
political depression of the time. They planned to
assassinate a number of cabinet ministers,
overthrow the government and establish a
"Committee of Public Safety" to oversee a radical revolution, similar to the French
Revolution. According to the prosecution at their trial, they had intended to form a
provisional government headquartered in the Mansion House. [Stock ID: 13617 ]
£95
49.
THORLEY (John) [Melisselogia] or, the Female Monarchy. Being an
Enquiry into the Nature, Order,
and Government of Bees, Those
Admirable,
Instructive,
and
Useful Insects. With a New, Easy,
and Effectual Method to preserve
them, not only in Colonies, but
common Hives, from the cruel
Death, to which their Ignorant,
Injurious, and most Ingrateful
Owners so commonly condemn
them. A secret unknown to past
Ages, and now Published for the
Benefit of Mankind.
Written
upon Forty Years Observation and
.Experience xliii, [3], 206, [2]
p.frontis, 4 plates, 1 folding, some
occasional spotting, 8vo, modern
half calf, London, N. Thorley,
1744
[Stock ID: 13586 ] £625
EAST END MANUSCRIPT RHYMES
50.
TYSER (Thomas) Rippletonian Amusements Volume 14 by Thomas Tyser
1830, Manuscripts Volume of Poems,title, 1-277pp + 5 pp Index, nos 769 - 920, 153
separately numbered, signed and dated poems, cr.8vo, original calf boards,
spine broken, May 15th 1830 to Jan. 8th 1832
The collection begins with a poem titled "The Talisman" (no. 769) on p. 1, and ends
with "Prophetic Call" (no. 920), signed and dated “T. Tyser Jan[uar]y 8, 1832”, on p.
266. With the title page date being 1830, and the date of the last poem being January
1832, we have a probable date range for the collection of 1830-1832. At the back of
the volume, in the same hand, there is a 5 page manuscript index of the poems, which
concludes on the back pastedown. Some of the poems take local history as their
subject - "Barking Fair" and "Spring in Ripple". Others take the reader farther afield
- "Liverpool", "New Zealand", "Coast of Africa", and "The Solar System". Tyser also
writes on religions - Islam, Hinduism, even Druidism (citing Stonehenge
archaeologist William Stukeley) - races - Arabs, Chinese, Afghans - among many
other topics. His poem "An Old Friend" (p. 51) begins, “George Glenny lives near
Barking Town”. The name and the content of the poem suggest the friend is very
likely the horticultural writer and tulip pioneer George Glenny (1793-1874), who
lived in nearby Hackney (DNB).
Tyser is clearly an avid reader. A few poems give his source – for example, the British
Magazine for August 1772 (p.289, on Marco Polo and other early travellers), or The
Annual, 1830 (p. 165, about the Venetians fighting over Cyprus in the 17th century).
These are not mere transcriptions but filled with vivid comment. Tyser’s delight in
what he reads makes him eager to capture it all in the medium he enjoys – rhyming
couplets. Stories from historical romances are crammed with the names of the actors
(Saladin, Richard I ...) and of the women attracted to the knights. He has a good feel
for rhyme but in such re-tellings the iambic rhythm can suffer. Syllables are dropped
or added and elliptical phrases used – ‘ Within twice the length of his lance, wheel’d
around / To the left dextrous rode, thrice about ground / Christian turns on his own
ground, front advance’ (p.2).
In meditative pieces the
rhythm is calmer and the
scansion happier, as in
‘Louse Hall’, a charming if
sad description of a small
holder’s late wife and the
widower’s cottage (p.108),
or leaving Ripple Hall to a
tenant to reduce expense,
‘conforming to the Times’
(p. 78)..
Archaeology
(p.264) is another of his
passions, from the rivalry
of the excavators in Egypt
(p.15) to the ‘Ruins of
Caithness’ (p.118). He is
fascinated
by
such
moments as Wellington and Soult eyeing each other and their positions for half an
hour (p.30), or ordinary tourists in Paris suddenly caught up the revolutionary mob
(p.109). Other poems treat of events in the news, such as the ‘Polish War of Liberty’
(p.236) or the ‘Chinese Squabble’ in Canton (p. 254).
While Tyser has composed a poem on average every four days, it would seem the
dates are those of making the fair copy. No less than 14 were entered on 20th May
1830 (pp. 27-37), which in that year was the holiday of Ascension Day.
Perhaps the best summary of the volume is in ‘Interior Conversation’ (p.232), in
which ‘we find rare Company ... Imagination leads us ... I find in myself, admirable
means / Of enjoying
beyond, my utmost sphere ... the World unfolds ... Do we enough Meditate ?’, and
ending ‘Will see vanish, ’fore their eyes, Pride dispel / While Policy, improvement, see
unfurl’d’.
ESTC, WorldCat, and COPAC show no printed books or pamphlets by Thomas Tyser,
but he apparently wrote another work in manuscript that was once owned by the
late scholar Herbert Hope Lockwood. In his posthumously published Tithe & Other
Records of Essex & Barking (2006), Lockwood says, "The author has a manuscript
in his private possession, an autobiographical 'Memoir of Thomas Tyser 1770-1832'
... The Tyser family were Barking builders". The current whereabouts of that
Lockwood MS are not known to me. Even those few words of Lockwood’s, however,
helpfully indicate a birth year for Tyser and suggest that Tyser was approximately
aged 60 to 62 when writing the poems in this MS of “Rippletonian Amusements”.
-Ripple Castle features in Edward Churton's Railroad Book of England: Historical,
Topographical, and Picturesque; Descriptive of the Cities, Towns, Country Seats, and
Other Subjects of Local Interest (London: Edward Churton, [circa 1851]). Churton
says a "Thomas Tyser, Esq." of "Ripple Castle" is one and a half miles south of
Barking -- as long as that is the proper expansion of the abbreviation, "1 1/2 m. s.
Barking" (p. 129). --Antiquarian material relating to Barking and environs in Essex
may have some scarcity because of one disastrous event: "in April 1967, arson
completely destroyed Barking Central Library" (Lockwood, Tithe & Other Records of
Essex & Barking, 2000, p. 114).
[Stock ID: 13590 ] £1250
THREE REGICIDES OF KING CHARLES THE MARTYR
51.
WALLOP (Robert 1601-1667) Thomas
Challoner (1595-1661), Henry, 10th Earl of Kent
(1594-1651) Sir Richard Knightley, Gregory
Norton & James Semple. A Fine Letter Signed from
these Commissioners for Irish Affairs, to “Our very
loving friends Colonell Chudleigh Coote, Colonell John
Moore and Colonell Roger Fenwick”, Contractors, for
shipping Parliamentary horses and men over to Ulster
to augment the forces opposing the Royalists there,
Westminster 15th September, 1646
Robert Wallop, 1601-1667, Regicide, was a
Commissioner of the High Court of Justice that tried
Charles I. He was absent from the sentencing and did
not sign the Death Warrant. After the Resoration he
was imprisoned in the Tower from 1661 until his death.
He protested that he “ever did and doth from his soul
abhor and detest that most horrid and execrable
murder”, and that he had attended the Trial on the urging of Royalists, to protect the
King.
Richard Knightley 1610-1661, MP for Northampton, and a very active
parliamentarian during the 1640’s.
Thomas Challoner 1595-1600, Politician and Regicide , he was consistently
identified as one of the most ‘bloody minded against the king’ . At the Restoration he
was not included in the “Act of Oblivion” and was to forfeit life and estate, and so he
fled to Holland where he died.
Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent was, despite his reluctance to accept his appointment
as one of the six peers named to the High Court, to try the Kings, he sought to
collaborate with the regicidal regime of which his cousin, William Purefoy MP, was
a member. His public career ended with the abolition of the Upper House in March
1649.
Sir Gregory Norton, first baronet 1603–1652, Regicide, as Commissioner of the
High Court, attended every session of the Trial before signing the Death Warrant.
He was an energetic member of the Rump Parliament, and helped in the sale of
Crown Property. His own gains from such sales led to suspicions of corruption.
[Stock ID: 13526 ] £1750
COMMONWEALTH DEED OF TRANSFER
52.
WARRINER (Edward, Yeoman, of Above Park, Selside, formerly
Westmorland, about 4 miles West of Kendal)
Deed on paper signed with his mark, in English with transcription,.”To all pepelle to
whome these presents shall cumm to be sene red or understoode ... especially ... in
consideration of the love and nataruale affection which I doe beare toward my sonne
John Warriner”, granting him and his heirs forever “my Costimary Teniment at Above
Parke ... parcell of the lands of Henery Willson of Underlay gent.” rented at 9s 11d per
annum, “latly in the possession of John Warriner my Brother decesed ... according to
the Costome theire used and alowed”, with possession from the 2nd February 1656,
“yealding and payying to the lord or lords theire of for the time being the yearly rent
above mentioned and all other dewes sutes and services theire after to be dewe for the
same”, with the signatures of witnesses Robert Mowson, Thomas Warriner and Geo:
Mowson, Edward’s own mark is a pair of upright lines,1 side 12” x 7½” and conjugate
blank, the seal papered with a neat fold cut from the blank right margin, np 10th
December,
1655
For
the
full
transcription
see
the
website
http://www.clivefarahar.com/book/4794/warriner-edward-yeoman-of-above-park-selside-formerlywestmorland-about-4-miles-west-of-kendal-deed-on-paper-signed-with-his-mark-in-english-withtranscriptionto-all-pepelle-to-whome-these-presents-shall-cumm-to-be-sene-red-or-understoode-especially--in
[Stock ID: 13622 ] £250
FAMILY LAID BARE
53.
WEST (Dame Rebecca [Cicely Isabel Fairfield] 1892 - 1983) Fine
Autobiographical Holograph Letter Signed to “My dear Mark [Boxer])”, tipped in to
a copy of her Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, sixth
impression, ep maps, 32 plates on 16 pp. vii + 586 &`vii + 653 pp. 2 vols 8vo, original
cloth, some slight wear, 1946,4 pp. 8vo on printed note paper marked “Confidential”,
48 Kingston House North, Princes Gate, S.W.7. 6th January, 1981
The letter commences “My dear Mark, I must now, I fear, tell you the story of my
life. I have a son, who is
now sixty - seven, who has
all his life been wretchedly
unhappy.
He feels he
should be recognised as as
great as HG as well as
having my more modest
talents also to his credit he
is also perpetually in
financial
difficulties.”
Anthony West (1914–1987)
was the son of Rebecca West
and H.G. Wells. She gives
the long complex history of
his marriage, the first “a
detestable
complaining
woman called Kitty Lyle (of
sugar)...”, and his children
Caro and Eli.
Caro
“married a very delightful
Negro and went to live with
him in Africa - but became
very odd on giving birth to
the most beautiful son”.
There follows and intricate
account of her problems
and recriminations she
blames on Rebecca West.
She mentions Anthony’s
prostate operation in New
York “from which he is
recovering perfectly well ... Anthony is a close friend of Anthony Haden Guest, and
you must know all about him and it has all been too horrible.” Finally about her own
work “I think ‘1900’ is rather good, but I haven’t kept the typescript in control. My
fierce daughter - in - law is making the most hideous row about it - and it is all going
on and on and on has been going on since August.”
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield was considered to be a foremost feminist and one
of the great intellectuals of the 20th Century. She worked as an Actress in her early
years, whilst writing for the Freewoman and Clarion papers, drumming up support
for the Suffragette Movement. Her association with H.G.Wells occurred after her
review in the Freewoman of his novel Marriage in 1912, in which she described him
as “the old maid among novelists”. Their son Anthony West, was born in 1914, died
in 1987. At her death William Shawn of the New Yorker said “Rebecca West was
one of the giants and will have a lasting place in English literature. No one in this
century wrote more dazzling prose, or had more wit, or looked at the intricacies of
human character and the ways of the world more intelligently.”
[Stock ID: 13610 ] £650
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE FRONT
54.
WORLD WAR ONE. A Collection of 191 of 200 Stereoscope Cards of Views
of the First World War, from Northern France to Gallipoli, in fine bright and unfaded
condition, preserved in 2 original wooden, cloth covered book-form boxes, faded and
worn, together with a Stereoscope Viewer, London, Realistic Travels Publishers
c.1918-20
The Numbers missing are 11, 20, 32, 39, 40, 66, 68, 69, &198.
[Stock ID: 13481 ] £650