Description
Wilde (Oscar).- The Shakespeare Birthday Book, signatures of many authors and artists, including: Austin Dobson, John Ruskin, George Meredith, Mortimer Menpes, George Du Maurier, Robert Barrett Browning, Edward Poynter, Andrew Lang, William Holman Hunt, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, R.D. Blackmore, John Everett Millais, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, W.L. Wyllie, Charles Keene, Walter Crane (with sketch), Edward Burne-Jones, Edmund Gosse, Helen Allingham, Oscar Wilde (October 16th, the cataloguer's birthday!) and W.B. Richmond, original cloth, embroidered "dust-jacket", 12mo, 1875.
⁂ A pencil inscription reads "This book belonged to A.C. Swinburne poet, later it went to Gerald W. Henderson Librarian of St. Paul's Cathedral..." Loosely inserted is a receipt for three books purchased by Swinburne from Bickers and Son in November 1879, signed by Swinburne.
Saleroom Notice:
The receipt for three books purchased by Swinburne has been withdrawn from the lot
Lot 97
Wilde (Oscar).- The Shakespeare Birthday Book, signatures of many authors and artists, 1875.
Hammer Price: £3,500
Description
Wilde (Oscar).- The Shakespeare Birthday Book, signatures of many authors and artists, including: Austin Dobson, John Ruskin, George Meredith, Mortimer Menpes, George Du Maurier, Robert Barrett Browning, Edward Poynter, Andrew Lang, William Holman Hunt, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, R.D. Blackmore, John Everett Millais, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, W.L. Wyllie, Charles Keene, Walter Crane (with sketch), Edward Burne-Jones, Edmund Gosse, Helen Allingham, Oscar Wilde (October 16th, the cataloguer's birthday!) and W.B. Richmond, original cloth, embroidered "dust-jacket", 12mo, 1875.
⁂ A pencil inscription reads "This book belonged to A.C. Swinburne poet, later it went to Gerald W. Henderson Librarian of St. Paul's Cathedral..." Loosely inserted is a receipt for three books purchased by Swinburne from Bickers and Son in November 1879, signed by Swinburne.
Saleroom Notice:
The receipt for three books purchased by Swinburne has been withdrawn from the lot