forthcoming sales - Dominic Winter Book Auctions

PERIODICALS
328 The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politicks, and
Literature of the Year, vols 1-89, 1758-1848, an unbroken run,
together with two index vols, contemp. full calf, maroon morocco
spine labels, spines marked and chipped with a few boards detached
(one vol. lacking spine), together with four duplicate vols, 8vo
(96) £700-1000
329 Illustrated London News, 10 vols., Jul-Dec, 1856; Jul-Dec,
1860; Jul-Dec, 1861; Jan-Jun, 1862; Jan-Jun, 1865; Jul-Dec, 1870;
Jan-Jun, 1872; Jan-Jun, 1873; Jan-Jun, 1875; Jul-Dec 1876, num.
eng. illusts., one or two inkstamps, mostly contemp. cloth with gilt
label to spines, rubbed and marked, folio, plus five others
(15) £200-300
330 La Vie Parisienne. A complete volume of fifty-two issues, vol.
64, 1926, colour and b & w illusts., commercial ads., orig. col.
pictorial wrappers preserved, as issued with title and contents
leaves, remains of orig. printed spine preserved, 4to
(1) £400-500
80
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS,
AUTOGRAPHS & EPHEMERA
331* Autograph album. An Edwardian autograph album compiled
by Zoe de Candia, of Cotswold House, Lower Quinton, Stratford on
Avon, containing approx. forty-five signatures and autographs of
literary figures, theatre, operatic and music hall performers, artists,
military and political figures, etc., including Sarah Bernhardt, Arthur
Conan Doyle, W. G. Grace, Louis Wain, Mark Twain, Lillian Nordica,
Gertie Millar, Marguerite Moreno, Captain Onslow, Alfred Duke of
Edinburgh, Duke of Norfolk, Madame Albani, Albert Chevalier, Bruce
Bairnsfather, Edward Carson, Earl of Kerry, Harry Furniss, Edna May,
Marie Corelli, Madge Kendal, Brigadier General Buller, Claude Lovat
Fraser, Henry Irving, Dan Leno, Paolo Tosti, Lord Leighton, Alfred
Austen, Lord Roberts, Charles Coquelin, the violinist Johannes Wolff,
Mrs Patrick Campbell, etc., orig. padded maroon morocco, rubbed,
contents det., small 8vo
(1) £300-500
332+ Baden-Powell (Lord Robert, 1857-1941). Orig. pen and ink
and watercolour drawing, signed ‘Robert Baden-Powell’, n.d., c.
1920s, depicting an idyll of worldly harmony, with a hand-holding
chain of boy scout and girl guide leaders and children, plus a mallard,
monkey, rabbit, kangaroo and African native, the scout and guide
leader sitting on a log in the foreground jointly holding a small
cherub-like child and looking over their shoulders through a threeleafed
clover to a scene of woodland, rocky coast and sea with blue
and white sky and a rainbow, a few stars and birds decorating the
top, a little dust soiled, pin holes to extrems., and a few short closed
marginal tears, pubs. pencil marks to verso, 254 x 320 mm
An accomplished drawing which was probably used for one of the scouting
publications. This item and the accompanying lot of photographs come from
the Estate of Mrs Rebecca “Beccy” Manser, Guide Commissioner for
Bournemouth, which was considered a show division to which visitors from
abroad were directed if they wished to see the best of British Guiding. Mrs
Manser became a friend of the Baden-Powells and especially of Olave, Lady
Baden-Powell, who, like Mrs Manser had lived in Parkstone, Dorset. Mrs
Manser died in 1969.
(1) £200-300