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condition. ¶ Colin Trodd, “Ford Madox Brown and the William Blake Brotherhood”, Visual Culture in Britain , 15:3, 277–298, 2014. £2,750 [155258] 15 BLIXEN, Karen, as Isak Dinesen. Last Tales. London: Putnam, 1957 Presented to a bon vivant First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Philippe Jullian, from Isak Dinesen. 13. 11. 1957”. The recipient was artist, author, and gay bon vivant Philippe Jullian (1919–1977). Jullian was the author of the book which effectively launched the Symbolist art revival in France, Esthètes et Magiciens (“Dreamers of Decadence”, 1969), and the dedicatee of Philip Core’s Camp: The Lie that Tells the Truth (1984). As an illustrator, he contributed to works by Violet Trefusis, Natalie Clifford Barney, and Vita Sackville-West, and illustrated editions of Proust, Wilde, and Dickens. In his later years, Jullian moved to England, but regularly spent his winters in Africa. Blixen and Violet Trefusis became closer friends around the time of this inscription, and it is likely that Blixen knew Jullian through her; Trefusis was one of Jullian’s closest friends, and he wrote a biography of her, published in 1976. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, top edge blue. With dust jacket by Owen Wood. Spine cocked, upper corners lightly bumped, covers a little soiled, contents slightly foxed. A very good copy indeed in toned jacket with a few spots of foxing, damp stains to front panel and rear flap, shallow chips to head of spine and one corner, extremities a little rubbed and creased with occasional nicks. ¶ Ian Buruma, Theatre of Cruelty, Art, Film, and the Shadows of War , 2014. £2,500 [155698]
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Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893), who praised Blake as “the most imaginative artist who ever lived . . . in the matter of genius second to none”. The first blank is inscribed with a note on the provenance: “From the Collection of the historical painter Ford Madox Brown . . . and purchased by his pupil Frank Rathbone at the sale of Madox Brown’s effects after his death. 29th May 1894. H.S.R.”. The binding also has one of the title labels declaring Brown’s ownership of the volume. Brown was friends with Alexander Gilchrist and influenced by Gilchrist’s 1863 biography The Life of William Blake . Small quarto (240 × 185 mm). Bound c .1900 in smooth red calf, spine gilt in compartments with raised bands and two black morocco title labels, sides bordered in gilt and panelled in blind, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. 24 lithographic facsimile plates, each hand coloured. Bookplate of Panof Grafsos Skinos on front pastedown, Japanese note on Ford Madox Brown tipped in to first blank. Some light rubbing to ends and corners, small abrasion to marbled paper at upper outer corner of pastedown, plates somewhat foxed, still an attractive volume in very good
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