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.

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...”

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.”

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.

Torquay, November 1875. 3 letters, 9 pp. in good condition. Arthur Roope Hunt (1843-1914), geologist and naturalist.

Gli Scafari, Lerici, 1951-1953. 12 pp. 8 x 6 inches. Percy Lubbock (1879-1965), author and editor. “... old friends and young relations still make me a sort of daisy-chain of visits...” “I am much as saw me last, save that I am still more set fast in my chair and no sight left to speak of, but what of that, I have kind friends always at hand to do things that I cannot do for myself.”

36 Eaton Square, March 1893. 3 letters, 5 pp., 8 x 5 inches, occasional light foxing only. Sir John Henniker Heaton (1848-1914), Member of Parliament, redoubtable postal reformer, and journalist in Australia. John Thomas Knowles (1831-1908), editor, friend of Tennyson. In June 1893 there appeared in The Nineteenth Century Heaton’s article: Post Office ‘Plunders and Blunders’.

69 Gloucester Crescent, Regent’s park, September - November, 1896. 12 pp. different sizes, in very good condition. Ada Jemima Crossley (1871 – 1929), Australian contralto notable as the first Red Seal recording artist engaged in the US by the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1903. Her first appearance in London was at the Queen's Hall on 18 May 1895, when she had an immediate success. For many years she held a leading place at music festivals and on the concert platform, and she gave five command performances before Queen Victoria in two years. She was also successful in America, and on returning to Australia in 1904 her tour was a series of triumphs.

Switzerland, 27 February 1861; May to July, 1869. In French. 4 letters, 10 pp. folds, in good condition. Joseph Hornung (1792-1870), painter, was born in Geneva. He took drawing lessons with Constant Vaucher but was essentially self-taught in the French Romantic tradition. He was considered the leader of the Geneva school and the most representative painter of the Reformation. He exhibited at the Salon in the Musée Rath, Geneva, as early as 1826 and subsequently at the Royal Academy, London (1839) and the Paris Salon (1831, 1840, 1841, 1843 and 1847). He was praised by the critics and Louis-Philippe and Ary Scheffer were among his admirers.

Bromley, Kent, 1898 and undated. 6 letters, 17 pp., in good condition. J.A.Shepherd (b.1866), Strand illustrator, One of his teachers was Alfred Bryan, the Judy caricaturist. He was introduced to the Punch audience in the 1894 “Punch Almanac.” J. A. Shepherd was a regular contributor of illustrations to the Strand Magazine. He illustrated “Zig Zags at the Zoo” in 1894, “Zig Zag Fables” in 1897, “The Story of Chanticleer” in 1913, “Uncle Remus” in 1921, and “Songs of the Birds” in 1922.

4 Albert Cottages, Hammersmith & 4 Haymarket, 1854-1856. 3 letters, neatly tipped on to an old album page, in good condition. Alexander Frederick Rolfe (1815-1907), painter.

1909-1948. 11 pp. 10 x 8 inches. Horace Annesley Vachell (1861 –1955), prolific English writer of novels, plays, short stories, essays and autobiographical works.

3 Clifton Hill Studios, N.W., undated. 4 letters, 11 pp., in good condition, with a separate sepia photograph of the young Stampa. George Loraine Stampa (1875-1951), black and white artist, a contributor to Punch and other illustrated papers and magazines, also designed posters for London Transport. “The portraits I have been trying to paint lately from photographs have been ... breaking great lumps off my Spirit ... Now with one sad blow you have shattered the remaining slab, & I see like the pilgrim of love, there’s no rest for me but the grave ... you pain me more than words can tell, or ears can hear, or crocodiles forget.”

Trinity College Cambridge, 1811-1815. 6 letters 9 x 7 inches, in good condition, with the integral address leaves (postal markings). Thomas Robinson (1790-1873), Master of the Temple, and Arabic scholar, was educated at Rugby and at Trinity, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1813 as thirteenth wrangler and second classical medallist. He went out to India as a missionary priest, and there he began the translation of the Old Testament into Persian. He was chaplain to Reginald Heber, and was present at Trichinopoly on 2 April 1826 when Heber was drowned. In 1837 Robinson was appointed lord almoner’s professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge.

Bristol, 1802, 1810, 1822, 1825. 4 letters, 12 pp., in good clean condition. Thomas Tregenna Biddulph (1763–1838) was an English cleric, a leading evangelical in the Bristol area. He particularly opposed the evangelical secession around George Baring (1781–1854), the "western Schism". A lengthy catalogue of Biddulph's writings is in Bibliotheca Cornubiensis. All his works were of evangelical doctrine and theology; he engaged in controversy with John Hey, Richard Warner, and Richard Mant. A periodical called at first Zion's Trumpet, then known for many years under as The Christian Guardian,' was set up him in 1798.

1851-1880. 11 letters, 20 pp. in good condition. David Masson (1822-1907), Scottish scholar and literary critic, whose works included Memories of London in the Forties.

44 Montpelier Road, Brighton, 1854-1855. 6 letters, 7 pp. in good condition, lightly tipped on to an old album page, overlapping. Frederick Nash (1782-1856), watercolour painter, architectural draughtsman. His published works include: A Series of Views of the Collegiate Chapel of St.George at Windsor [1805], Twelve Views of the Antiquities of London [1805-10], and some of the drawings which were engraved for Ackermann’s History of the University of Oxford [1814].