Earl feversham (8 risultati)

Paper Cover. Condizione: Very Good+. 26pp Eighteenth Clarke Hall lecture chaired by Viscount Samuel.

Drawn by Ape. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18.5cm. Very good. With original leaf of biographical text.

1958. The Clarke Hall Fellowship. Soft covers. Pamphlet - VG. Number of pages 26.

Carbon print, mounted, from "Cabinet Portrait Gallery", slight spotting on surround.

Unbound. Condizione: Very Good. 1st. original print from Vanity fair Size: 9" x 14". Color Lithograph; Spy (Sir Leslie Matthew Ward0 (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Third Printing. Third printing hardcover in red paper covered boards showing lightly bumped spine ends and sharp tips. Bright gilt spine title. Internally fine, no names, tears or soil seen in the tight, crisp 186pp text illustrated with 16 line drawings by Peter Beigel. Original, un-clipped color illustrated dust wrapper is like new without sunning, creases or chips. Negligible handling soil on cream back panel, jacket now in new mylar and displays well. The authoress and her brother have long been addicted to Foxhunting and the supernatural. They are a family steeped in strange occurrences and ghostly happenings in Yorkshire for generations. The Countess of Feversham, born into an atmosphere in which the chase and stories of the unknown were constantly daily features, has brought the two together in an excellent collection of nineteen stories, collected from friends and relations, which are bound to cast that cold shiver down the spine. The connection between foxes and the mysterious forces of the unknown has long been common knowledge among hunting people - but few of those who do not hunt will be familiar with this phenomenon. As dusk falls and firelight plays across the ceiling, you may still hear the ghostly sound of hounds in full cry, as you read these excellent tales.…

No Binding. Condizione: Some Creasing. First. A fine original colour lithograph from Vanity Fair, a magazine which was published from 1869-1914, featuring a large caricature portrait each week. These were drawn by various artists, the most famous of whom was Leslie Ward who used the 'nom de crayon' of "Spy". This portrait will come mounted/matted and ready to frame using archivist quality materials, mount size 18 x 12 inches, 47 x 31 cms. It will be presented in a cellophane wrapper with our label guaranteeing authenticity. We pack very well, between sheets of hardboard. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of the Earl of Feversham, with the caption "a Conservative". With a one-page biographical sheet. drawn By Ape (illustratore). …

Manuscript in ink, two pages, smallish 4to, with integral blank leaf. A good letter to a fellow army officer, apparently one especially concerned in the treatment of the sick. Duras was born a Frenchman, but came to England in the early 1660s to serve the Duke of York; he inherited the title Earl of Feversham from his father-in-law (d. 1677). He was a competent soldier (he commande the royal forces at Sedgemoor that defeated Monmouth), but this attractive letter shows that he had not really mastered the English language: 'I desire you to lett me have a liste of the officiers of every bataillons that have been at bruxelles, comanded to take care of the sick men, for the king is pleased to lett them have a gratuity to recompense them towards their expense, and how good is to those that does their duty.'.…