Search Results: Titles starting with S from Julian Browning Rare Books & Manuscripts

London, 1 June 1876. 5 x 8 inches, in good condition. Enrico Bevignani Modesto (b.Naples, 1841 - 1903), orchestral conductor, composer and theatrical impressario. In 1864 he moved to London, and from 1871 to 1878 he was the permanent conductor at Covent Garden. On March 17 1879 he conducted the world premiere of Eugene Onegin at the Maly Theatre in Moscow.

Arley, 1844-1846. 10½ pages 7 x 4½ inches, minor blemishes only, one letter cleanly torn along centre fold. Rowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton (1804-91), poet, author of Hunting Songs and Miscellaneous Verses (1846), etc. On the subject of proofs he writes, “The dead horse wants working up a great deal, pray speak seriously to Mr. L about this, as I am quite fearful that they will all appear to be very coarse and slightly finished.”

31 Fitzroy Square, March to August 1857. 10 pp., some very light foxing, generally in good condition, all tipped on to one old album page. George Raphael Ward (1799–1878), painter and engraver. Henry Mogford, exhibition organiser, was closely associated with the Crystal Palace. “We proposed paying a visit on Saturday next to the Crystal Palace as it is a long time since I paid a visit to that enchanting place...”

Undated. 4 x 4½ inches, laid down. Sir James Crichton-Browne (1840-1938), doctor and psychologist, lunatic asylum superintendent, a pioneer of the early treatment of mental breakdown.

Venice, 26 June 1887. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, minor blemishes only. Giuseppe Da Pozzo (1844-1919), watercolour artist.

London, 1931. English edition. 247 pp., illustrated. Original blue cloth, some fading. Henri Fauconnier (1879 – 1973), French writer, known mainly for his novel Malaisie, which won the Prix Goncourt in 1930. He developed rubber plantations in Malaya and elsewhere in the Far East.

Undated. 6 x 8 inches, in fine condition. Part album page from an album compiled by Leone Levi (1821–1888), political economist. Gregorio Benites (1834-1910), Paraguayan diplomat and author.

London, 1846-47. 3 letters, 12 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, fine. Benjamin Rawlinson Faulkner (1787–1849) was an English portrait painter.

8 Clarges Street, Piccadilly, and elsewhere, probably Paris (French watermark), undated. . 3 letters, 10 pp., in good condition. Mary Elizabeth Mohl or Mary Elizabeth Clarke (1793 – 1883) was a British writer, and a salon hostess in Paris. She was known by her nickname of "Clarkey". She was admired for her independence and conversation. She eventually married the orientalist Julius von Mohl. She was an ardent Francophile, a feminist, and a close friend of Florence Nightingale. She wrote about her interest in the history of women's rights.

Budapest and London, 1931-1932. Four letters or cards, typed, signed by Lengyel, in mixed condition, one letter with a blank corner removed, generally good. Melchior Lengyel (1880 – 1974), Hungarian writer, dramatist, and film screenwriter.

London, 1903-1910, 1927-1929. 10 letters, 25 pp. generally in good condition. John Coates (1865 – 1941), leading English tenor, who sang in opera and oratorio and on the concert platform. His repertoire ranged from Bach and Purcell to contemporary works, and embraced the major heldentenor roles in Richard Wagner's operas. For more than 40 years, with only a four-year interruption for military service during World War I, he overcame the limitations of a voice that was not naturally large by impressing listeners with his intense artistic expression, lively diction, musical versatility and memorable stage presence.

c.1886-1890. 8 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. Sydney Prior Hall (1842-1922), painter of Court ceremonials, accompanied the Prince of Wales on his visit to India in 1875-6. He was commissioned by Macmillans to illustrated Tom Brown’s Schooldays.

Saint Martins Chambers, Trafalgar Square, 1886-1894. 6 pp. various sizes, ink caricature 5 x 2¾ inches. Joseph Ashby-Sterry (d.1917), poet, contributor to Punch, art critic for the Daily Graphic, etc., author of Boudoir Ballads and the Cucumber Chronicles.

Berlin, February 1820. In German. Each slip about 4 x 5 inches, very fine, all enclosed within a red morocco box, borders gilt, upper cover initalled L.J. in gilt, spine labelled ERINNERUNG.[Memory], marbled wrapper. Liber Amicorum: ‘book of friends’, an early form of autograph book, originating in Germany in the 16th century. This is an early nineteenth century equivalent, comprising slips of paper contained in a morocco box. Noted signatures include Joseph Moses, F.Wercker, Theodor Borchardt, Jacob Berend Cohen, Philippine and Caroline Jaffe, Emma Hirsch, M.Lehmann.

London, 16 August 1828. 2 pp. 10 x 7½ inches, in good condition. Abraham Stead, Missionary to South India, Jaffna and Point Pedro, in the 1820s.

Gipsy Lane, Barnes, 1898-1899. 21 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. William Harry Archibald Chasemore, (b.1844), cartoonist. He was the pre-eminent cartoonist on Judy through its long run and his distinctive work appeared in boys’ story papers and comic papers until just past the turn of the century. Much of his earliest work consisted of cartoons for puzzle pages done in partnership with Charles Henry Ross. He contributed to Judy, Fun, Punch, Ally Sloper’s Half-Holiday, Beeton’s Boy’s Own Magazine, John Dicks Boy’s Herald, The Boy’s Own Paper, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, Ladies Pictorial, Bow Bells, Every Week, Million, Dalziel’s Pictorial World, Queen, St. Stephen’s Review and the Sketch. Chasemore figures in the 1898 book At the Sign of the Brush and Pen by J. G. Reid.

The Times (4), The Daily Mail (3), British War Mission New York (1), 1906-1917. 8 letters, 1 envelope, in good condition. Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922), journalist and newspaper magnate. Most of these letters are brief acknowledgements, but two refer to plans for a biography of Northcliffe himself. “There are already four ‘lives’ of me in preparation, and in one case I have given some assistance, but I do not think there will be a demand for any of them.”

12 Tregunter Road, West Brompton, c.1859-1860. 6 letters, 11 pages, 7 x 4 inches, in very good condition. James Godwin (d.1876), wood engraver, draughtsman, illustrator and genre painter.

!8 Kensington Court Place, 1909-1912. 11 letters, each of one page, various sizes, in good condition. Claude Allin Shepperson (1867 –1921), British artist, illustrator, and printmaker specializing mainly in social scenes and landscapes. Shepperson was not only a painter, a book and magazine illustrator, a cartoonist for Punch, but also a commercial artist, producing images for advertisements.

Ranchi, Bushey, Hertfordshire, one dated 15 November 1913. About 10 pp., a few surface blemishes (obscuring one word), generally good. George Owen Wynne Apperley (1884 Ventnor - 1960 Tangier) was educated at Eagle House, Sandhurst and at Uppingham School prior to studying art at Herkomer Academy, Bushey, Herts. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, 1905 and then mounted his first individual exhibition in London, 1906. He was elected as a member of the Royal Institute of Watercolour Artists in 1913.