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War And Peace,
£220War And Peace,
Framed Chromolithograph by SNAPP picturing Leo Tolstoy, Russian moralist, novelist and social theorist, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Tolstoy visited England only once in his life. For sixteen days from the 2nd May 1861 he lodged with the philosopher Alexander Herzen and took in the sights of London as well as attending a reading by Charles Dickens of A Christmas Carol at St James' Hall on Piccadilly. He returned to Russia on the 17th, immediately upon learning of the emancipation of the Russian serfs by the Emperor Alexander II.£220 -
He insists that his pen is mightier than his sword,
£200He insists that his pen is mightier than his sword,
Framed chromolithograph by Spy (Sir Leslie Ward) picturing Mr Egerton Castle MA FRSA, author, antiquarian and swordsman. He was an early practitioner of reconstrucred historical fencing he went on to be apponted British fencing and sabre captain in two Olympic Games. A keen collector of bookplates, he also published several novels, often in partnership with his wife Agnes Sweetman Castle, a number of which were turned into early motion pictures.£200
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The Moon by André Masson, Verve Vol. 1 / No. 2.
£600The Moon by André Masson, Verve Vol. 1 / No. 2.
The Verve Review was a purposefully luxurious. It ran from 1937 to 1960, but with only 38 editions available, due to the high degree of design and editorial work dedicated to each issue. Each edition contained unique lithographic prints, commissioned by the editor, and each cover a double-page lithograph elaborated by one of the artists contained within. It was the brainchild of its editor Stratis Eleftheriades, a Greek National who moved to Paris in the early thirties to take part in the growing Modernist movement, writing under the name of Teriade.£600 -
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£600The Four Elements, Earth by Francisco Bores, Verve Vol. 1 / No. 1.
The Verve Review was a purposefully luxurious. It ran from 1937 to 1960, but with only 38 editions available, due to the high degree of design and editorial work dedicated to each issue. Each edition contained unique lithographic prints, commissioned by the editor, and each cover a double-page lithograph elaborated by one of the artists contained within. It was the brainchild of its editor Stratis Eleftheriades, a Greek National who moved to Paris in the early thirties to take part in the growing Modernist movement, writing under the name of Teriade.£600 -
Henri Matisse, ‘The Last Works of Henri Matisse’
£900 eachHenri Matisse, ‘The Last Works of Henri Matisse’
From Verve Vol. IX No. 35/36 published by Tériade under the title 'The Last Works of Henri Matisse'£900 each