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LEAR (EDWARD) Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscri...
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LEAR (EDWARD) Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'S.G. Jenkinson, from the author April 1874' on the front free endpaper, half-title, illustrated throughout, browning, contents loose in publisher's cloth-backed colour-printed boards, covers detached, stained and worn, 8vo, Robert John Bush, 1872 Footnotes: INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to S.G. Jenkinson, the British collector of tax and administrator for the region, who hosted Lear during a stay at Hardwar, India from 3-6 April 1874. In his journal Lear recorded that he and his manservant Giorgio were 'received directly by Mr. Jenkinson in the kindest manner. His mother, as also Lord Northbrook's, was a sister of Sir George Grey... Mr. Jenkinson drove me in a dogcart to Hard-war, doubtless one of the most curious places in India'. Over the next few days he was able to follow Jenkinson 'judging a murder case, butchers of Jehallipur', and on 5 April recorded 'went to see Mr. Jenkinson (having last night written a letter to Mrs. Jenkinson 'with an order for two books of Nonsense and a Corsica, small return for so much kindness), but he, having risen, had gone to bed again...' (quoted in Edward Lear's Indian Journal, edited by Ray Murphy, 1953). This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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LEAR (EDWARD) Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'S.G. Jenkinson, from the author April 1874' on the front free endpaper, half-title, illustrated throughout, browning, contents loose in publisher's cloth-backed colour-printed boards, covers detached, stained and worn, 8vo, Robert John Bush, 1872 Footnotes: INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to S.G. Jenkinson, the British collector of tax and administrator for the region, who hosted Lear during a stay at Hardwar, India from 3-6 April 1874. In his journal Lear recorded that he and his manservant Giorgio were 'received directly by Mr. Jenkinson in the kindest manner. His mother, as also Lord Northbrook's, was a sister of Sir George Grey... Mr. Jenkinson drove me in a dogcart to Hard-war, doubtless one of the most curious places in India'. Over the next few days he was able to follow Jenkinson 'judging a murder case, butchers of Jehallipur', and on 5 April recorded 'went to see Mr. Jenkinson (having last night written a letter to Mrs. Jenkinson 'with an order for two books of Nonsense and a Corsica, small return for so much kindness), but he, having risen, had gone to bed again...' (quoted in Edward Lear's Indian Journal, edited by Ray Murphy, 1953). This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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