Sales catalogue 570: Maggs Bros

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/115
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 570: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i139 DRINKWATER (JOHN, born 1882). Poet and Dramatist. POPVER CROMWELL, THE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH Ma eiSercet ll Obes PHS: PAY: Extending to 76 pages, Ato. £105 This play was produced for the first time in Brighton, 10th February, 1923, and was reviewed as follows: ‘Oliver Cromwell came into his own on the British stage. Strange as it may seem, the man who did more than any other to fight for our lberties has always been treated with scorn by our dramatists. The cavalier was so picturesque, the Roundhead such, a killjoy. In Will’s ‘ Charles I.’ we were even given a libel of Oliver Cromwell, and only a generation ago the libel was applauded. ‘¢ John Drinkwater has rehabilitated Oliver Cromwell. That the dramatist has made him the creature of circumstances rather than the moulder of them is due in part to the structure of the play. ‘¢ Tt is like ‘ Abraham Lincoln,’ a pageant in a number of scenes. The period of the action, begins in 1639 and ends in 1654, and covers practically the whole of Cromwell’s public hfe. ‘¢The drama reaches its climax in a scene with Charles I, who rather melo- dramatically is discovered in his intrigue with Scotland. The King’s execution makes the end of the drama in a conventional sense, but the author, with finer insight, brings down the curtain in a quiet scene a year after Cromwell has been made Protector. The play ends with a quiet prayer from Cromwell.”’ 140 DUDLEY (JOSEPH, 1647-1720). Chief Justice of New York. Colonial Governor of New England. Pik Ree ol GN Be bO THE KARI OF SUNDERLAND. I page, 4to. Boston, 24th October, 1709. £3 10s Written when Governor of New England, reporting the capture of a Spanish ship with the King of Spain’s representative on board. ‘‘ Captain Smith in the Enterprise in her voyage hither tooke a Prize Ship wherein was Don Carlos d’Sucre goinge the King of Spaines Lieutenant to Cartha- gena in New Spain, and at his arrival here brought the said Don Carlos with his Lady and one Child, an infant, hither. He has desired of me to go from hence to his Government; but being a person of such consideration I have not adventured to let him proceed without giving Her Majesty account of him.’’ Ete. 141 DUGDALE (SIR WILLIAM, 1605-1686). Antiquary and Historian. Garter Principal King of Arms. Wrote ‘“‘ Monasticon Anglicanum,”’ ral by DOCUMENT SIGNED. 3 pp., folio. 8th May, 1665. Also signed by Thomas Lee Chester, Henry St. George Richmond, and Thos. George Somerset, the other Heralds. £2 2s Concerning the title, arms, etc., of the family of Walker of Nether- stowey in the County of Somerset, taking same back to 1539. oe
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