Barron, Oswald ; (editor and founder) ; Pierre Chaignon la Rose (bookplate) ; David K. E. Bruce (bookplate):
THE ANCESTOR A Quarterly Review of County and Family History, Heraldry and Antiquities - signed or inscribed book
2015, ISBN: f2c935b91a2dbef3dda585aad747006f
Hardcover, First edition
Postdam: H. F. Ullmann; Tandem Verlag, 2010 Pictorial boards, 520 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First English Language Edition. Dust jacket protecte… More...
Postdam: H. F. Ullmann; Tandem Verlag, 2010 Pictorial boards, 520 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First English Language Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Neoclassicism, as a return to the forms and ideals of ancient art, and Romanticism, as an intellectual attitude, are no longer seen as mutually exclusive alternatives. This book aims to present painters as widely varied as Johann Heinrich Fussli, John Constable, William Turner, William Blake, Philipp Otto Runge and Francisco de Goya." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The renaissance to the romantic movement: an outline of ideas, by Peter Putz; Neoclassical and romantic architecture in Britain, by Ute Engel; Neoclassical architecture in the United States of America, by Barbara Borngasser; Neoclassical and romantic architecture in France, by Georg Peter Karn; The architecture of neoclassicism and romanticism in Italy, by Georg Peter Karn; Neoclassical and romantic architecture in Spain and Portugal, by Barbara Borngasser; Neoclassical and romantic architecture in Holland and Belgium, by Ehrenfried Kluckert; Historicist and romantic architecture in Germany, by Klaus Jan Philipp; Neoclassical and romantic architecture in Scandinavia, by Ehrenfried Kluckert; Neoclassical and romantic architecture in Austria and Hungary, by Peter Plassmeyer; Neoclassical architecture in Russia, by Hildegard Rupeks-Wolter; The landscape garden, by Ehrenfried Kluckert; Neoclassical sculpture, by Uwe Geese; Neoclassicism and the Romantic movement: painting in Europe between two revolutions 1789-1848, by Alexander Rauch; Neoclassical and romantic drawings, by Angela Resemann.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Collectible., H. F. Ullmann; Tandem Verlag, 2010, 5, London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. C.O. Murray. To Harry A Merry Xmas! J. H. Magonigle 1894. Book plate with HP monogram and Italian text that reads: IF GOD LEAVE YOU, READER, TAKE FRUIT OF THIS LESSON. Introductory essay by Andrew Lang Only 750 copies printed for both America and England. Printed by T. And A. Constable, Edinburgh,Printers to Her Majesty.1895. Quarto, red cloth, 1st edition (1895), 87 pages + 12 etchings. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white plates. Moderate tanning to pages, with light thumbing throughout. Heavy tanning to rough-cut text block edges. Inserts and inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Inscription written by J. H. Magonigle, the manager and friend of Edwin Booth - the most prominent actor of the 19th century. Booth retired following the April 14, 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by his brother John Wilkes Booth. He feared the public response and worried that theatergoers would blame him for his brothers actions. Edwin later returned to the stage where is career continued to grow. Harry P., the books recipient is Harry Phillips, and American Photographer who photographed Edwin Booth. Harry Phillips Photographic collection is stored in large part at the New York Public Library and has been displayed in numerous exhibitions.In terms of book ownership this one is certainly interesting meeting at the intersection of American History and the American Arts. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Heavy bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Heavy tunneling on boards from book worms. Treated with 6 weeks of freezing to remove book worms. No bugs in this book, several pages have tunneling. Illustrations are etchings. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR, Lawrence and Bullen, 1895, 2, Lee of Fareham, 1930. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). Three articles by W.C. Constable custom bound in blue cloth with gilt title on the front cover and a shorter title stamped in gold on a leather spine label. Two corners bumped else Near Fine. Contains the color cover of the Feb. issue along with 3 articles, full pages and some columns cut and laid on to blank folio pages. this copy is inscribed by Viscount Lee of Fareham to fellow art collector and banker, Jules Bache. A lovely production. Arthur Hamilton Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham, GCB, GCSI, GBE, PC (8 November 1868 - 21 July 1947) was an English soldier, diplomat, politician, philanthropist and patron of the arts. After military postings and an assignment to the British Embassy in Washington, he retired from the military in 1900. He entered politics, was first elected in 1900, and later served as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and First Lord of the Admiralty following the First World War. He donated his country house, Chequers, to the nation as a retreat for the Prime Minister, and co-founded the Courtauld Institute of Art. Julius Bache was born to a Jewish family[1][2] in New York City.[3] His father, Semon Bache [né Bach] (1826-1891), emigrated to the United States from his native Nuremberg[4] Bavaria, settling in New York City where he started the glassmaking firm Semon Bache & Company.[5] In 1881, he started work as a cashier at Leopold Cahn & Co., a stockbrokerage firm founded by his uncle. In 1886, he was made a minority partner and in 1892 took full control of the business, renaming it J. S. Bache & Co. Jules Bache built the company into one of the top brokerage houses in the United States, outranked only by Merrill Lynch. In the process, he became an immensely wealthy individual, a patron of the arts, and a philanthropist.., Lee of Fareham, 1930, 4, South Kensington, London: V & A Publishing, 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 223 pages, illustrations; 25 x 29 cm. Notes: Venue: Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the V&A, London, 20 Sept. 2014 - 11 Jan. 2015. Contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- Origins: seeking the truth at second hand -- Outdoor oil sketches and studies: faithful and brilliant transcriptions of the thing of the moment- nature caught in the very act -- Collector: the interesting and valuable collection formed by the late John Constable, Esq. R.A. -- Methods: I imagine myself driving a nail -- Sources: we challenge the Dutch Masters to shew us any thing better than this -- Canon: the Chiar Oscuro of Nature. Subjects: Constable, John 1776-1837; Exhibitions. Constable, John. Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England); Exhibitions. Naturalism in art; Exhibitions. Painting, British; Exhibitions 19th century. Genre: Bibliography. Catalogue. Exhibition catalogues., South Kensington, London: V & A Publishing, 2014, 0, London: Archibald Constable & Co.. Very Good. 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 p.l., 282 & ads pages; Contemporary full calf, flamed decoration, swirl marbled endpapers, edges decoratively stained red. Minor rubbing to the binding; outer hinge of front board tender -- still quite handsome; some diffuse foxing to the title page and the fore-edges of the first several leaves. With two large, impressive bookplates facing one another mounted to the paste-down and front free-endpapers. The first is an engraved heraldic bookplate of Pierre Chaignon la Rose (engraved by George W. Eve -- "signed" in the plate). La Rose was born in New York City. Non-admirers of his in the greater Harvard community sniffed that his name had once been Peter Ross, but it is beyond question that he prepared at Phillips Exeter, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1895 from Harvard, where was Phi Beta Kappa and had edited the Harvard Review. He taught at Harvard in the English Department until 1902, after which he described himself as a "man of letters." He was an expert in Heraldic design and designed arms for a number of institutions including The Catholic University of America, Saint Anselm College and Rice University. Closer to home, he designed the seals of all the graduate schools at Harvard University and served on its Committee on Arms, Seal, and Diplomas. La Rose also designed armorial bearings for Princeton, Yale, and Radcliffe College. His undergraduate roommate. the future composer Daniel Gregory Mason remembered that La Rose was frequently and expertly drawing bookplates even in his undergraduate days. It is notable that he had his own bookplate engraved (or more likely, etched) by one of the other great bookplate designers of their time: George W. Eve [ 1855-1914] -- an English artist who shared his involvement with Heraldry. Eve was a member of the Heralds' College and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers -- (his colleages in the latter chose him to design their diploma). Eve designed and etched bookplates for many notables, including Queen Victoria, and Kings Edward VII and George V. Eve also designed and etched the bookplate for the Library at Windsor. We do not know whether Eve merely etched this plate for Pierre Chaignon la Rose, or designed it as well. The result is certainly consistent with George Eve's other work. The design incorporates the motto, 'Fortiter et Suaviter,' -- [“Patience and Fortitude"] Special Collections at the University of Delaware have an entirely different bookplate for Pierre Chaignon la Rose, dated 1905. The only similarity between the two bookplates is the retention of La Rose's Latin motto. An old friend of ours who had been at Harvard in the 1930's remembered La Rose well and relates that he engaged some quiet and genteal trading in rare books. One wonders whether he sold this first volume of 'The Ancestor' to the man whose even larger bookplate is mounted to the facing endpaper: David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce [1898-1977]. Bruce headed the Europe branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during the second World War and subsequently helped in the administration of the Marshall Plan before entering the diplomatic service. He served as the United States Ambassador to France from 1949 to 1952, United States Ambassador to West Germany from 1957 to 1959, and United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1961 to 1969 -- and remains the only American to hold all three of these pivotal posts. For good measure, he came out of retirement to serve as the first United States emissary to the People's Republic of China from 1973 to 1974. David K. E. Bruce's distinctive bookplate is decidedly non-Heraldic. It depicts Staunton Hill, the 1850 castellated Gothic-style mansion that architect John E. Johnson designed for Charles Bruce in Charlotte County, Virginia ... etc. Our volume is just the first of the series of twelve volumes published. How many of these 1902 volumes had a more interesting pair of bookplates mounted by previous owners? Contents include: Some Anecdotes of the Harris Family; The Origin of the Fitzgeralds; The English Gentleman; Miniatures at Belvoir; Heraldic Glass from Lytes Cary; The King's Coronation Ornaments; The Grosvenor Myth; etc. ., Archibald Constable & Co., 1902, 3<
