Lot 35
Dorset.- Autograph Letters upon Dorset, Letters to John Symonds Udal, including: William Barnes, John Clavell Mansel-Pleydell, Charles Herbert Mayo, Henry Joseph Moule, John Wordsworth, Walter Boswell-Stone, Wilmot Pilsbury, together c. 176 letters in 3 vol., contemporary morocco-backed boards, 1876-1915 (3).
Hammer Price: £1,000
Description
Dorset.- Autograph Letters upon Dorset, Letters to John Symonds Udal, including: William Barnes (2), & one letter by Barnes in the hand of his daughter; John Clavell Mansel-Pleydell (1817-1902), natural historian and antiquary) (9 one incomplete); Charles Herbert Mayo (1845-1929), Dorset clergyman and antiquary (18); Henry Joseph Moule (1825-1904), watercolour artist and friend of Thomas Hardy (28); John Wordsworth (1843-1911), Bishop of Salisbury (3); Walter Boswell-Stone, Shakespearian scholar, Bridport (4); Wilmot Pilsbury (1840-1908), watercolourist and art teacher (c. 42, 4 watercolours and 11 chromolithographed Christmas and New Year cards), together c. 176 letters in 3 vol., numerous pp., folds, some browned and slightly creased, ink ownership signatures of John Symond Udal on front free endpapers, bookplates of Frederic Markham Tindall on front pastedowns, contemporary morocco-backed boards, gilt spines, rubbed, mostly 8vo, 1876-1915 (3).
⁂ Dorset etymology and history.
"I thank you very heartily for your kindly given list of Dorset words which I have not yet studied. I suppose they are rather of West than East Dorset, as Ingledog a Devon word is I believe, not heard till one comes off the chalk hills between Dorchester and Bridport... ." - William Barnes, 1876.
"If you have not yet read Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a great pleasure awaits you. Hardy tells me that a cheaper edition is coming out in the autumn. The D'Urbervilles, by the way, are the Turbervilles, who still exist in Dorset, though their estate has fallen low." - Boswell-Stone, 1892.
John Symonds Udal (1848-1925), historian of Dorset, cricket, author, lawyer and judge.
Description
Dorset.- Autograph Letters upon Dorset, Letters to John Symonds Udal, including: William Barnes (2), & one letter by Barnes in the hand of his daughter; John Clavell Mansel-Pleydell (1817-1902), natural historian and antiquary) (9 one incomplete); Charles Herbert Mayo (1845-1929), Dorset clergyman and antiquary (18); Henry Joseph Moule (1825-1904), watercolour artist and friend of Thomas Hardy (28); John Wordsworth (1843-1911), Bishop of Salisbury (3); Walter Boswell-Stone, Shakespearian scholar, Bridport (4); Wilmot Pilsbury (1840-1908), watercolourist and art teacher (c. 42, 4 watercolours and 11 chromolithographed Christmas and New Year cards), together c. 176 letters in 3 vol., numerous pp., folds, some browned and slightly creased, ink ownership signatures of John Symond Udal on front free endpapers, bookplates of Frederic Markham Tindall on front pastedowns, contemporary morocco-backed boards, gilt spines, rubbed, mostly 8vo, 1876-1915 (3).
⁂ Dorset etymology and history.
"I thank you very heartily for your kindly given list of Dorset words which I have not yet studied. I suppose they are rather of West than East Dorset, as Ingledog a Devon word is I believe, not heard till one comes off the chalk hills between Dorchester and Bridport... ." - William Barnes, 1876.
"If you have not yet read Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a great pleasure awaits you. Hardy tells me that a cheaper edition is coming out in the autumn. The D'Urbervilles, by the way, are the Turbervilles, who still exist in Dorset, though their estate has fallen low." - Boswell-Stone, 1892.
John Symonds Udal (1848-1925), historian of Dorset, cricket, author, lawyer and judge.
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