thomas wright olney (4 Ergebnisse)

Both items in good condition, lightly aged and worn. Letter: 1p., 4to. With RSA stamp and manuscript note. He would like 'a list of the plaques you have placed in London', and would like to hear from Menzies, if he has 'anything to say on the subject, or have any article in your Journal'. Press release. 2pp., 8vo. Headed 'Literary Notes', it deals with E. T. Raymond's 'All and Sundry', Thomas Wright's 'The John Payne Society', Arthur Hayden's 'Bye-Paths in Curio Collecting' and H. C. Dowdall's 'Local Development Law'. Of the second book Unwin writes: 'Mr. Wright by an extraordinary exercise of tact and sympathy was able to pass the barrier which shut Payne off from anybody who sought to know the man behind the books. For twelve years before Payne's death in 1916 he was his most intimate friend, [.]'.

Neatly written out on one side of a stamped, postmarked postcard, the other side addressed by Wright to 'Miss Alice A. Leith | 10 C Gardens | London | N.W 3'. He is 'very pressed with work', and refers her to his 'Life of Blake', which 'gives all I know respecting Blake's attitude to Bacon - or Coban (altering the letters) as he sometimes calls Bacon'.

12mo, 134 pp each on one side of a ring-punched loose leaf, with the leaves attached by green thread within an original worn buckram binder with discoloured endpapers. The leaves themselves in good condition on lightly-aged paper; with those of the draft story ruled in red, and sometimes utilizing scrap paper (for example the blank reverses of prospectuses for Wright's books and scrap pages from Blake Society material). The story, with title in autograph on a separate leaf, covering 78pp, and made up of at least four chapters, but with the order of some of the leaves disturbed, so that it is difficult to ascertain whether it is complete. The first chapter of the story is entitled 'A Wedding in Camden Town', and begins 'One day in 1866 there was a wedding in St Paul's Church in the parish of St Pancras, London. The beautiful and accomplished Helen Marks was married to Mr George Wingrove.' The non-fiction notes cover 56 pp, the first headed 'Daniel Defoe'. Numbered in blue pencil to 70 (plus A and B), with some gaps in the numeration. Begins 'This evening I purpose giving an acct of D with special ref. to his conn with Stoke N. His life is more wonderful than a fairy tale. It is a story of wonder & daring of high endeavour & marvellous success.' Rear endpaper carries a few phrases in autograph relating to the story, including names of characters, beginning 'Helen Wingrove, Mrs Marks her mother' and ending with 'When he comes in one feels that someone of importance has come in'. Neither the fiction nor the non-fiction work features on COPAC, or corresponds to any of Wright's known works. Author of many books and founder of several literary societies, Wright is a puzzling omission from the New Dictionary of National Biography. For some biographical information, see his obituary in The Times (6 April 1936, 'Mr. Wright of Olney | An Industrious Biographer') and his 'Autobiography' (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1936).

The Pippets of Solihull were a Roman Catholic family that worked closely on ecclesiastical designs with the Gothic Revival firm Hardman & Co (whose archives are held by the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery). Wilfrid also collaborated with J. B. Trinick on the striking illustrations to A. E. Waite's rosicrucian 'Album of the Great Symbols of the Paths' (1917-21; copy in the British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings). Eleven attractive illustrations in black ink (over pencil draft). Each on a piece of board ('Faced with Whatman Hand-made Paper'), and ranging in size from 16 x 19.5 cm to 15.5 x 13.5 cm. All in good condition, lightly aged and worn. Each is annotated in pencil, several with the line of poetry being illustrated, and some with instructions for transferring the illustration to a block. Several of the illustrations are to the ballad 'The Three Men of Yardley Chase', with one showing the three men (George, Ben and Hob) standing in front of a tree used on the front cover when the ballad was issued as a separate fascicule ('Part I', with 'Leather and Thread and Tears', 3rd ed, 1925). This illustration, and two others, are signed 'Wilfrid Pippet', while the other eight are signed 'W. P.' The most striking illustration (featuring on p.13 of the printed volume) is of the ghosts of the three men dancing over their graves around a tree with an owl in it. Two illustrations depict the doorway of the 'WHITE HART HOTEL | HELEN SMITH', one with three figures in Georgian dress in the foreground. Another shows the three men with 'Hedge-hog meat', and another (depicting a beggar with a raven on his shoulder is captioned with a line from the poem 'Base people bred to mar their peace'. There are also: a drinking scene (including mother with baby), a dandy admiring himself in the mirror with a woman in a bonnet behind him, a man and woman in Tudor costume, three men (with a badger) listening to a beggar with a crow on his shoulder, and two lovers, in seventeenth-century garb, in front of two trees with owl, pixie and white rabbit. See Image.