Sales catalogue 597: Maggs Bros

Date:
1934
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/138
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 597: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    274 BEACONSFIELD (BENJAMIN DISRAELI, EARL OF, 1804-1881). Statesman and Author. ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE FIRST PART OF ‘‘ IXION IN HEAVEN.’’ 38 pp., folio. £63 An extremely interesting manuscript differing very slightly from the printed text. Disraeli was a perfect master in the art of describing what we call society, its sayings and its doings, its sense and its folly, its vices and its virtues, and in ‘‘ Ixion in Heaven,’’ a burlesque which he wrote in his youth, this talent is displayed at its best. 275 BEARDSLEY (AUBREY, 1872-1898). Artist. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ‘‘A. B.’? TO LEONARD SMITHERS. I page, I2mo. (Epsom, 16th August, 1890). With addressed envelope. £2 5s ‘“‘ With many thanks for the £15... I am up & about once more. Doctors say that Boscombe is the very place for me. Dont Forget Juvenal.’’ 276 BEARDSLEY (AUBREY). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ‘‘ A. B.’’? (ON LETTER CARD) TO THE SAME. I page, small 8vo. The Spread Eagle Hotel, Epsom, 24th June, 1896. £2 2s ‘“‘T have fallen on my feet here. Two palatial rooms & the additional com- fort of being able to feed in a pretty little restaurantish dining room. ... The air is lovely & view from my sitting room quite sweet.’’ Etc. 277 BEERBOHM (MAX, born 1872). Caricaturist. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MR. STEVENS. 3 pp., 8vo. Cromwell Road, 13th December, 1902. £1 5s . . IT am glad you were glad to find me malleable. I should have been a fool had I been otherwise and not taken every advantage of your knowledge and your imagination, which were both of such very great service in the setting of the play. When next I write a play I shall be tempted to pitch it again in India, so as to have you as local-colourist.’’ 278 BENEDICT XIV (1675-1758). Pope. And GLEMENT XIII (1693- 17600).')*Pope: FIVE BRIEFS OF DISPENSATION OF POPE BENEDICT XIV AND ONE OF CLEMENT XIII. 5 pp., folio (vellum). Bound together in half calf. 1748-1768. £5 5s These briefs are to dispense with the Cardinal’s formal installation from time to time, and to allow him all the rights and privileges of his rank. Four of the documents bear the signature of Cardinal Passionei.
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