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Author:

Sotheby & Co. (London, England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81107853

Title:

Catalogue of nineteenth-century and modern first editions, presentation copies, autograph letters & literary manuscripts comprising the property of Howard Bliss, Esq., the property of St. John Ervine, Esq., LL.D., D.Litt., the property of Cyril Connolly, Esq., the property of Miss Dorothy Mary Ward, the property of Admiral Sir Peter Reid, K.C.B., C.V.O. from the collection of the late Maurice Baring ... : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, the 29th May, 1961 and the following day.

Publisher:

Messrs. Sotheby & Co.,

Copyright Date:

1961

Description:

123 pages, 3 leaves of plates : facsimiles ; 26 cm

Subject:

Cobden-Sanderson, Richard.
Charles Fairfax Murray
Howard Bliss
St. John Ervine
Cyril Connolly
Dorothy Mary Ward
Sir Peter Reid
A.R. Murray
Messrs. Crickmay & Sons
Professor H.M.O. White
Janet F. Davis
Miss A.E. McLeod
Betty Smith
Mrs. Charles L. Hill
Richard Bentley
A.T.A. Dobson
J.B. Shaw
Alfred Gordon Bennett
George C. Kenworthy
Clotilde Shakharoff
Ronald Searle
Mrs. A. Roworth
Signora Rosetti Angeli

Notes:

548 lots. Sale code: NARTHEX Place of sale: London. " ... and including presentation copies of Charles Dickens, Swinburne, Richard Le Gallienne, Thomas Hardy, Lewis Carroll, James Thomason, Maurice Baring, Hilaire Belloc, Walter De la Mare .. .and a fine copy of Helen Bannerman's very rare The story of little Black Sambo, 1899. Autograph letters of S.T. Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Southey, Dickens, Thackeray, Tennyson, Carlyle, Newman ... Arnold Bennett, Rupert Brooke, H.G. Wells...James Russell Lowell and Peter Kropotkin. Architectural drawing by Thomas Hardy for St. Juliot's Church, Cornwall; and five of Tenniel's original drawings for Alice in Wonderland. Autograph manuscripts of John Clare, W.S. Landor, George Borrow, Charles Reade, D.G. Rossetti, Swinburne, Samuel Butler, Andrew Lang ... important correspondence of Tolstoy, Turgenev, Rainer Maria Rilke, George Bernard Shaw and D. H. Lawrence; fine examples of Edward Johnston's calligraphy ... The important, and largely unpublished, collection of letters of W.M. Rossetti and John Ruskin to Charles Augustus Howell, and of Ruskin, William Morris, Burne-Jones, Graily Hewitt, T.J. Wise, etc., to Charles Fairfax Murray, the property of the latter's son, the late A.R. Murray, Esq."

OCLC:

(OCoLC)171656810

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)