Sales catalogue 623: Maggs Bros

Date:: 1936

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/160

Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 623: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Kipling (Rudyard)—continued. ‘‘ The outcome seems to me about this : — (a) The publishers will try to make a ring. (b) All publishers do not trust each other. (c) There are big profits for any one who stays out of such a ring. (d) The Ring will.not be formed. It has been mooted in America & dropped for very Much reason (b).’’ Etc. ““. . . I have given my testimony in the matter of Putnam who is now embarking on a new kind of fraud. He has bought from Smith Elder a lot of com- plete Thackerays; has also bought Harpers book on T. with Mrs. R. Ritchie’s introduction. Has inlaid ‘the introduction into the S. & E. books and is now advertising an edition ‘ unique, extraordinary and definitive.’ Mrs. R. R. says that ‘there is nothing to be done.’ . . . What’s the sense of bothering to publish anything if any d d bookseller can take up composite editions. I be- lieve in never suffering anything from a publisher if I can possibly make him un- happy and some day we’ll see the result of my work.’’ Ete. ‘* T saw the news yesterday—Saturday rather—and forthwith sent you a small cable of congratulations which I follow now with a letter. You are probably swear- ing at the mass of correspondence that is rolling round you; so I’ll only try to say how pleased I am, and also how wrath to see that it was not a baronetcy.”’ Etc. 103 KNELLER (SIR GODFREY, 1646-1723). Famous Portrait Painter. Ten reigning Sovereigns and almost all persons of importance in his day sat to him. AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED AT FOOT OF A LIST OF PAINT- Gove AnCUl ni eBy sHIM AND SOLD, TO); ELADYSELIZABETH CROMWELL FOR 4400. I page, folio. 5th June, 1703. £7 15s The list comprises 17 paintings, including :— ‘* Ld Edward’s picture whole length £30. ‘‘ Ld Vere’s picture whole length £30. ‘* Ld C(romwells’) picture whole length £50. ‘‘ A Diana, whole length £50. ‘‘ Mr. Fitzherbert & his wife, 2 half-lengths £30. ‘* A Cecilia for Mr. Congreve £15.”’ Etc. The signed Autograph note at foot reads :— “The 5 of June 1703 received of the Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Cromwell the above mentioned summe by a bond of four hundred pounds. Signed and sealed by her Ladyship this day and accepted in full by me.—G. Kneller. 104 LEY (JAMES, 3rd EARL OF MARLBOROUGH, 1618-1665). Royalist Commander. Established a Colony at Santa Cruz, West Indies. Governor of Jamaica. Killed in Naval action with Dutch 1665. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. ‘I page, Ato. Gravesend, 22nd March, 1661. £3 3s Written just preparatory to his voyage to the East Indies to receive Bombay from the Portuguese. ‘¢T went downe the river this day in order to see what the ships committed to my charge did. I find that all his Maties are fallen out of the hope towards the downes, the pink excepted for the wch, some excuse is made, and the fault if any shall be amended, but the ship experiment moveth soe slowly that unless it be amended our hastning signifyeth nothing. I therefore desire such course may be taken that we may not stay for her.’ ~

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