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Click here to subscribeSIR JOHN GILBERT (1817-1897) BRITISH. MISS FLUTE introduces the wards in Jarndyce to the Lord Chancellor. A superb large interior with a crafty old krook, bones bought krook dealer in marine stores, bottles on the shelves, books on the floor, a cat on his left shoulder. Signed and dated 1860. 27 x 36ins. (See old newspaper chipping on reverse).
GOSSE Edmund A collection of first editions of the works of Edmund Gosse, including two items with his bookplate and one with a presentation inscription, uniformly bound in half dark blue morocco, blue cloth boards, t.e.g., with 2 items in matching solander boxes, by Riviere, mostly with the bookplate of Oliver Brett, afterwards 3rd Viscount Esher, 8vo. (unless otherwise stated), comprising: On viol and flute, 1873; King Erik, 1876; New poems, 1879; Studies in the literature of Northern Europe, with signature of T.H. Ward in pencil, 1879; Gray, 1882; Seventeenth century studies, 1883; Firdausi in exile and other poems, 1885; From Shakespeare to Pope, 1885; Raleigh, 1886; Life of William Congreve, 1888; A history of 18th century literature, 1889; Gossip in a Library, 1891; The life of Philip Henry Gosse, 1890; Robert Browning personalia, 12mo., 1891; The secret of Narcisse; a romance, inscribed "J.A. Blaikie from E.W.G. Nov: 2.92", 1892; Questions at issue, 1893; The Jacobean poets, 1894; Critical Kit-Kats, 1896; A short history of modern English literature, 1898; The life and letters of John Donne, 2 vols., 1899; Hypolympia or the gods in the island, 1901; Jeremy Taylor, 1903; With Edmund Garnett, English literature: an illustrated record, 4 vols., 1903; In russet & silver, 1904; Coventry Patmore, 1905; Sir Thomas Browne, 1905; French profiles, 1905; Father and son: a study of two temperaments, with Edmund Gosse's bookplate, 1907; Ibsen, 1907; Biographical notes on the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, original paper boards, printed paper label, uncut and unopened, preserved in a solander case, No 46 of 50 copies, with Edmund Gosse's bookplate, London: privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1908; The autumn garden, 1909; Collected poems, 1911;Two visits to Denmark, 1911; Portraits & sketches, 1912; Inter arma: being essays written in time of war, 1916; Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1917; Three French moralists and the gallantry of France, 1918; A catalogue of the works of Algernon Charles Swinburne in the Library of Mr. Edmund Gosse, original printed paper wrappers, preserved in a solander case, no. 43 of 50 copies, London: privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1919; Some diversions of a man of letters, 1919; Books on the table, 1921; Aspects and impressions, 1922;The continuity of literature, presidential address, 1922, 1922 [bound with] Tallemant des reaux or the art of miniature biography, the Zaharoff lecture, 1925, 1925 [bound with] Malherbe and the classical reaction in the 17th century, the Taylorian lecture 1920, 1920; More books on the table, 1923; Silhouettes, 1925; Leaves and fruit, 1927; CHARTERIS E., The Hon., Life and letters of Edmund Gosse, 1931 [50]
A VICTORIAN GREEN VASELINE GLASS EPERGNE having a large central flute with crimped green rim and spirally-trailed scallop decoration, flanked by two similar smaller flutes and two clear spirally-twisted glass canes, one with pendent green vaseline glass basket (the other basket lacking), on a concave four-sided crimped green vaseline glass base, 58cm, (22.8in) high
THREE 18TH-CENTURY ENGRAVED ALE GLASSES comprising: a flute engraved with hops and barley, the stem with medial disc knop on a plain foot, 13.5cm, (5.3in) high; another, similar, with a bulge to the top of the otherwise plain stem, 12.7cm, (5in) high, and a smaller example, with bucket bowl, medial disc knop to the stem, and plain foot, 10.5cm, (4.1in) high
A FACON DE VENISE GILT GRADUATED FLUTE POSSIBLY VENETIAN OR LOWLANDS, 16TH/17TH CENTURY, the tall slender bowl formed from nine graduated compressed bulbs below a flared octagonal rim gilt with two concentric bands, set on a merese above a gilt moulded oviform stem with lion's masks alternating with flowerheads over a merese and short conical foot with gilt edge, 23cm., 9in. Applied paper labels to foot indistinctly inscribed in ink
19th CENTURY; a pair of watercolours, one depicting a boy in Eastern costume wearing a turban, buttoned tunic and cloak, resting upon the draped sill of an arched window, a rifle at his side, the other boy in 17th century costume, wearing a slashed doublet and frilled collar, a feather in his wide-brimmed hat, poised to play a flute, unsigned, contemporary printed labels to reverse, The Property of Tregonwell Monro 1878, 8 1/2in x 7 1/4in and 7 5/8in x 6 3/8in respectively, the latter with gilt slip, contained within matching ornate gilt gesso moulded frames.
Photographs.- A large collection of approximately 750 publicity photographs by Reg Wilson, Anthony Crickmay, and others, the majority depicting scenes from the ballet and opera staged during the latter part of the twentieth century, including Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Macbeth, Lulu, Don Giovanni, The Nightingale/L'Enfant et les Sortileges and Boris Godunov at Covent Garden, The Force of Destiny, Don Giovanni and Lucky Peter's Journey at Sadler's Wells, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Where the Wild Things Are, and L'Amour des Trois Oranges at Glyndebourne, The Magic Flute by the Scottish Opera, and many other productions in England and Europe, and 6 photographs by Ossia Trilling of Nureyev with Erik Bruun and Doreen Wells on the beach at Monte Carlo, the majority 10 by 8 prints with descriptive text or captions on backs. The photographs are from the collection of the opera and ballet critic Ossia Trilling.
A Derby group of "Music', the classical young woman playing the flute and wearing a puce flowered turquoise chiton, a tambourine and scroll resting on a marbled pillar to her side and with two putti in attendance, on a sprigged rocky green mound, 26cm h, William Duesbury & Co incised 217, patch marks, c1780 . Some typical firing cracks in the base and another in the upper part of the leg of the principal figure, some old discoloured restoration to the young woman's hands and the upper part of the body of the reclining child. One bell missing from the edge of the tambourine, an extending firing crack near the base of the pillar, the standing child's right arm broken and partially re-built but now heavily discoloured. No "professional' restoration