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Literature 2019 LITERATURE This year, Sotheran’s would like to present our first dedicated Literature catalogue in over 5 years. This catalogue spans more than 350 years of published Literature and represents authors from all walks of life; from Sagan to the Beatniks, Victorian sensation fiction to Tagore and the ancient wisdom of Confucius huddled up next to Angela Carter's grim tales. In a time of new development for the company, with an exciting new website and shop renovation, our core values remain the same - to source and offer the rare, unusual and unique. Each and every one of the books in this catalogue has a story behind it, and we're confident that there's something here for everyone. We will shortly be releasing a short guide to our catalogues. ‘A Conversation about Book Collecting’ will aim to answer some of your most frequently asked questions, and will also include a guide to some of the terms that we use in our catalogues, so you can tell your 8vos from your ffeps, and your a.e.gs from your ALS’s. They will shortly be available upon request, and will be free to all Sotheran’s customers. Highlights in this catalogue include the First Edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover, signed by D. H. Lawrence; a copy of The Waste Land printed on Virginia Woolf's kitchen table, and a miniature smaller than a penny (with magnifying glass included!) We hope you enjoy perusing its pages. Rebekah and Oliver. Rebekah Cron Oliver Clegg Literature and General Antiquarian Department Fine Books [email protected] [email protected] CONTENTS Pre-1900 1 1900 onwards 24 Poetry 69 Drama and Plays 86 Henry Sotheran Ltd 2 Sackville Street Piccadilly London W1S 3DP tel: 020 7439 6151 email: [email protected] web: sotherans.co.uk PRE-1900 2. BEATTIE, James. The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genuis: in Two Parts. With Some Other Poems. Alnwick: Printed by W. Davison, sold by the Booksellers in England and Scotland, 1810. £100 1. AUSTEN, Jane (author). Chris. HAMMOND (illustrator). 12mo, 17 x 10.5cm; paper covered cloth boards with paper label to Pride and Prejudice. A Novel. London: Gresham Publishing Co, [1900]. spine; blue speckled edges; 6 full-page and 10 vignette wood £450 engravings by Thurston after Clennel; pp. 144; boards slightly 8vo. Original straight-grained burgundy leather-backed brown soiled and spine somewhat darkened; previous ownership sticker to cloth boards, single line vertical rule to sides in gilt, strikingly half title and name/number to front paste-down; small tear reinforced with sticker to p. 11; loss to lower RH corner of p.98; decorated and lettered in an Art Nouveau design in gilt to flat spine, grey endpapers; pp. xxi + [iii] + 392; with title in red and black, a the odd crease and spotting to endpapers; good overall. frontispiece, and 5 other plates after engravings by Hammond on One of many numerous copies of The Minstrel, originally published coated paper; a very handsome copy with just minor abrasions to in 1771. Beattie was a Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher, and spine extremities, and joints, and slight dulling to spine gilt, this is one of his most famous works, together with An Essay on the internally crisp and clean throughout, without inscription, and with Nature and Immutability of Truth written as a response to David Hume. only a few small fox marks to the fore-edge margins; rather scarce The work, which is unfinished, is written in Spenserian stanzas, and in this binding. anticipates Wordsworth’s Prelude, with its emphasis on the great First edition illustrated by Hammond, presented in the superior de benefits of solitude representing an early manifestation of luxe publisher’s leather with very pleasing Art Nouveau detailing; Romanticism. Indeed, Wordsworth greatly admired Beattie’s work, issued simultaneously in decorated dark blue cloth. Many of the and this was to become one of his favourite poems, which greatly casings of Hammond’s books were designed by A.A. Turbayne and influenced him in adult life. Talwin Morris (leading designers of their day) and this binding Beattie began writing the poem in 1766. It describes the childhood might be one of that number. Certainly, this is one of the most of Edwin, a shepherd boy brought up in a solitary mountainous handsome editions, presented in a publisher’s binding, of the country and his imaginative response to nature. In less than three country’s favourite novel. months he had finished the first book, but the second took longer Christiana Mary Demain Hammond (1860-1900) was one of the than five years to complete, and a third was never written. most productive book illustrators of the 1890s. She was of lower John Thurston (1774 - 1822) enjoyed an enviable reputation as a middle-class stock, born in Camberwell, London, however quite draughtsman who provided images for a number of books. Luke remarkably she and her two siblings all went on to distinguish Clennell (1781 – 1840), also a fine draughtsman, learned his trade themselves as successful artists. She trained at Lambeth School of as apprentice to Thomas Bewick, to whom he was indentured for Art and exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of seven years on his sixteenth birthday. Painters in Watercolours, both in 1866. Supporting herself as a jobbing artist and illustrator she never married, finding regular and lucrative work illustrating for various magazines of the day 3. BLACKMORE, R.D. Lorna including Pall Mall Magazine, Quiver, and The Idler. Doone. A Romance of Exmoor. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., Hammond was unusual, as a woman illustrator in a predominantly male-dominated industry. She followed a trend by embracing the [1900]. £98 popular ‘Regency’ or ‘Cranford’ style alongside Hugh Thomson 8vo, 2 vols; bound in brown cloth and the prolific brothers Charles and Henry Brock, although she with lavishly gilt art nouveau floral had no contact with them. This idiom dictated that period details design to upper covers and spines; were closely preserved with regard to dress, interiors, and manners, upper edge gilt; with 51 phototype however this did not preclude sharp and confident characterisation prints; pp. vol I [ii], 516, [ii]; vol II of the protagonists. Hammond’s main focus is on small nuances of [ii], 565, [iii]; very light fading to facial expression and gesture, as she varies posture and expression spine, ribbon markers frayed and one to highlight the individuality of the characters. All of this made her near detached; light offsetting to the perfect illustrator for Austen. Indeed she is probably best known frontis of vol. I, very good to near-fine overall. for her versions of Sense and Sensibility and Emma, which were both Later, decorative edition. Illustrations by Dr. Charles L. Mitchell published in 1898, and her edition of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair (also and F. Frith, & Co.; photogravures by A.W. Elson & Co. 1898), which is considered her finest work. Tragically she died 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of this suddenly, and unexpectedly, in her studio in 1900, when only 40 historical romance. years of age, in the same year this book was published. SOTHERAN’S, LONDON 2019 1 4. [BRONTE, Charlotte]. BELL, Currer. Villette.New York: Derby & Jackson, 1857. £200 8vo. Later nineteenth century half tan calf, with light offsetting onto title and light marginal staining, occasional marbled boards, gilt spine with gilt raised light spotting or marking in other volumes, but nonetheless a very bands and two gilt black morocco lettering fresh set in a Regency binding; provenance: Sir John Gladstone, 1st pieces, marbled endpapers, all edges Bt, Fasque (1764-1851, engraved booklabels with pencilled marbled; pp. 502; very good. pressmarks on upper pastedowns), pencilled markings on V, p. 435. Early American edition in a handsome This set of Burke’s Works is from the library of the Scottish-born binding. merchant and politician Sir John Gladstone, first Baronet, who Though one of Bronte’s lesser-known moved to Liverpool and accrued great wealth through trade with novels, Villette was actually one of her most the colonies. An interest in politics led him to manage Canning’s pioneering and controversial works and is sometimes celebrated as election campaigns for Liverpool in 1812, 1816, 1818, and 1820, an exploration of gender roles and repression. It was to be her last and he was elected MP for Lancaster in 1818, for Woodstock in novel, and maintains similar themes found in Jane Eyre - the female 1820, and for Berwick upon Tweed in 1826; although he lost his heroine, gothic atmosphere, and bursts of passionate lyricism - seat in the following year, he pursued politics vicariously through while developing a revolutionary understanding of human the career of his son, the future Prime Minister William Ewart loneliness, drawn from Bronte’s own experiences of the loss of her Gladstone (his other two sons Thomas and John Neilson also sibling and the unhappy experience she had as a governess in became MPs). In 1829 Sir John purchased Fasque House with its Brussels. ‘particularly good first-floor library with a commanding view to the south-west’ (R. Jenkins Gladstone (London: 1995), p. 6), together As Virginia Woolf would later write in The Common Reader: “It is her with the estate of Fasque and Balfour, for nearly £80,000, and he finest novel. All her force, and it is the more tremendous for being settled there permanently a few years later, assembling important constricted, goes into the assertion, ‘I love. I hate. I suffer.’” collections of paintings, furniture and books in the house. It seems probable that Sir John Gladstone would have admired Burke as Canning — who considered Burke’s thought ‘the manual of my politics’ (quoted in ODNB) — did, and W.E.
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