23 CHRISTMAS – CALLIGRAPHIC MANU SCRIPT. The Wonderful Christmas Story told by St Luke. Snowshill, Cotswolds: November 1928 cotswold calligraphy A beautiful arts and crafts style calligraphic Christmas gift, inscribed in orange ink to the final leaf “Written for Miss Ellen D. Sharpe by her friend S. B. Russell at Snowshill, on the Cotswolds, in November 1928”. The work was created by Sydney Bolton Russell (1866–1938), the father of the arts and crafts furniture designer Gordon Russell (1892–1980). The recipient of this Christmas gift was Ellen Dexter Sharpe (1861– 1953) a patron of the arts in Providence who gave numerous donations to the Rhode Island School of Design. Russell travelled to Boston in October 1926 and likely met Sharpe on this visit.
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churchill’s “elegiac” autobiography – in the famously elusive dust jacket First edition in a very presentable example of the extremely rare dust jacket, retaining much of its vibrant colour. This is a conspicuously attractive copy of Churchill’s “witty and elegiac account of his youth shot through with regret at the decline of the social and imperial order in which he had grown up” ( ODNB ). Churchill’s first volume of sustained biography is a highly entertaining account of his childhood, schooldays at Harrow, military training at Sandhurst, experiences as a war correspondent in Cuba, and service attached to the Malakand Field Force on the NW Frontier of India, charging with the 21st Lancers at Omdurman, and as a POW in South Africa during the Boer War.
This copy is of the second state, with 12 lines of Churchill titles on the half-title verso, and in the second state binding, with 5-line lettering to the front cover (the first state has 3-line lettering). Octavo. Original pinkish-violet cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Half-tone frontispiece and 15 other plates, folding map, maps to text. Gilt of spine a little oxidised, a few other minor pale marks, slight tape residue to front free endpaper recto and offsetting to following leaf, a bright, square copy, title page unopened; jacket spine sunned, variable fading to panels, a few scuffs to front, splits to folds, other nicks, chips and tears, old tape repairs on verso but remaining very good. ¶ Cohen A91.1.b; Woods A37(a). £22,500 [156835]
Quarto, (280 × 186 mm), pp. [18]. Finely bound at time of presentation in blue morocco, spine in compartments, raised bands ruled in gilt, titles in gilt to front board, blue marbled endpapers, turn-ins elaborately rolled in gilt. Text written in black with red initials, colour nativity illustrations pasted to title page and final page of text. Spine very lightly toned, minor scuff to edges, faint offsetting to free endpaper margins, a near-fine copy. £1,250 [145380] 24 CHURCHILL, Winston S. My Early Life. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930
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