Lot 389
Browning (Robert) Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, William James Gillum's copy, Chapman & Hall, 1850.
Hammer Price: £300
Description
Browning (Robert) Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, ?proof copy, with numerous ink corrections (?by the publishers), ink inscription on B1 'With Mr. Browning's last alterations', front free endpapers and title loose, lightly browned, ink ownership signature of W.J. Gillum to front free endpaper, contemporary morocco, head of spine and corners worn, rubbed, extremities heavily so, g.e., 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1850.
⁂ Provenance: William James Gillum (1827-1910) patron of the Pre-Raphael group. He served as an officer of the 1st Foot at the siege of Sebastopol, where he was badly injured (losing a leg). He left the Army and subsequently moved in artistic circles, being a founder member of the Hogarth Club and associated with the Working Men's Club. He was introduced to Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Robert Browning and had painting lessons with Ford Maddox Brown. In 1860 he bought Church Farm at Barnet in Hertfordshire for use as a school for poor London boys of good character. Philip Webb designed a house for Gillum on the estate (ink signature).
Description
Browning (Robert) Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, ?proof copy, with numerous ink corrections (?by the publishers), ink inscription on B1 'With Mr. Browning's last alterations', front free endpapers and title loose, lightly browned, ink ownership signature of W.J. Gillum to front free endpaper, contemporary morocco, head of spine and corners worn, rubbed, extremities heavily so, g.e., 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1850.
⁂ Provenance: William James Gillum (1827-1910) patron of the Pre-Raphael group. He served as an officer of the 1st Foot at the siege of Sebastopol, where he was badly injured (losing a leg). He left the Army and subsequently moved in artistic circles, being a founder member of the Hogarth Club and associated with the Working Men's Club. He was introduced to Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Robert Browning and had painting lessons with Ford Maddox Brown. In 1860 he bought Church Farm at Barnet in Hertfordshire for use as a school for poor London boys of good character. Philip Webb designed a house for Gillum on the estate (ink signature).
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