STONE
(Reynolds, 1909-1979, Designer & Engraver)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Professor MYNORS
(Sir Roger Aubrey Baskerville, 1903-1989, Classicist and Medievalist who held senior chairs of Latin at Oxford and Cambridge) saying that he would “be most grateful for your ruling on a point that has given me a lot of trouble over the Oxford Press shield. I cut the design in wood, as enclosed proof, and the Clarendon Press were delighted with it for a month when my division of the word ILLUMINATIO was noticed, and condemned as unthinkable in the 1st century. If it is possible to conceive a letter cutter in the classical era being faced with the problem of dividing a word into 3 parts in this way can one say that he would have found it unthinkable to cut it as I have? The point is that if I have to revert to MINA-TIO all my letters will have to be much smaller and there will be ugly gaps. As I have cut it one avoids the awkward tendency to read across the word domina or dominina. Ideally also, from my point of view DOMINUS would be happier DOM-INUS. If you say my divisions are impossible and a hopeless solecism I shall re-cut the shield without feeling that I am a victim of of pedantry or plain conservatism. The Latinists among my friends are not outragesd but then they are not palaeographers...”, with an autograph postscript on the verso about their last meeting, The Old Rectory, Litton Cheney, Dorchester,headed paper, 22nd February
Item Date:
1956
Stock No:
42521
£276
Add to Wish List
Order/Enquire
Full Details
|
|
STONE
(Marcus, 1840-1921, Artist, R.A.)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Spalding'
saying that he has "been on the sick list for the last few days so that, with my usual bad luck, I was not able to make use of the invitation which you were good enough to procure for me. I suppose all went well? ...", 1 side 8vo., Russell House, Tavistock Square, 29th April
Item Date:
1865
Stock No:
41585
£65
Add to Wish List
Order/Enquire
Full Details
|
|
STORY
(William W., 1819-1895, American Sculptor)
Fine signature, Rome, 20th November
Item Date:
1866
Stock No:
8657
£10
Add to Wish List
Order/Enquire
Full Details
|
|
STOTHARD
(Thomas, 1755-1834, English Painter, Illustrator and Engraver)
Autograph letter signed to Mrs Will Cribb
Sending her "the two subjects you receive from me are fron Spencer's Fairy Queen and the Decameron ... the first is Una with the Satyres, ... & the other a secluded meadow scene from the latter ...", 1 side 8vo., Newman St, 25th September
Item Date:
1822
Stock No:
38833
£175
Add to Wish List
Order/Enquire
Full Details
|
|
STRANGE
(Lt.-Col. Edward Fairbrother, 1862-1929, Keeper of Woodwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum)
Autograph Letter Signed to George Roland Halkett,
(1855-1918, artist and journalist), telling him that "We must have our red tape", and asking him to sign a document, "Rule 1 is the only one bearing on the case. With apologies and many thanks", 2 sides 8vo. black-edged, Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, S.W., 7th July
Item Date:
1910
Stock No:
16388
£35
Add to Wish List
Order/Enquire
Full Details
|
|