31st May, 2017 10:00

Printed Books and Manuscripts
 
  Lot 94
 
Lot 94 - POETRY - c. 1889- 1939. An album containing a...

POETRY - c. 1889- 1939. An album containing a number of original pieces including a poem by E.V. Lucas entitled 'Aristocracy', Herbert Hensley Henson entitled 'Roses', Annie Matheson 'To a Snowdrop', an untitled poem by Andrew Cecil Bradley 'Were I but fat, I should not freeze...' two pages of musical notation by Lucius Smith. (Occasional light spotting). Original cream boards, border ruled in gilt (rubbed). Provenance: an annotation in a 20th century hand comments: 'Charles A. Frankenberg, left to me by Auntie Bez (Mrs G.T. Denis de Vitre H. C. Beeching's Sister'. Loosely inserted in a MS which deciphers a number of the initialed pieces including: 'W M' which the writer questions: ' Could it be either: - William Morris or Wilfred Morden? pupil of H C.B. (?) at Yattendon. Later Director British Museum- (I'll ask Noel if he signed himself this?). Although no record of this WM monogram can be found, some of the characters in the MS especially the word 'the' match examples of Morris' hand found in other recorded examples of his hand.

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