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On Heroes Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History

[SYDNEY CARLYLE COCKERELL]; edited by VIOLA MEYNELLBiblio.com

PRESENTATION COPY SUBSEQUENTLY ANNOTATED Friends of a Lifetime: Letters to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell.

19409683London: Jonathan Cape 1940. Inscribed by Sydney Cockerell in black ink to the front free endpaper: "To Brian S. Cron / from Sydney Cockerell". Two-sided manuscript letter in black ink addressed to Cockerell from the palaeontologist Arthur Smith Woodward 1864-1944 on British Museum Natural History Department headed notepaper dated May 4th 1885 discussing an upcoming exhibition of fossils at the museum to which Cockerell has donated some specimens. The text of the work is annotated in pencil possibly in Cockerell's hand but more likely Cron's with numerous marginal lines scattered throughout and a series of pencil numbers in the margins of the section comprising the letters of the artist and bookbinder Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson. In addition there is a list of three addresses on the rear endpaper the first being a residence of Cockerell's the second apparently pertaining to Philip Webb as well as an ink annotation clearly in the hand of Cockerell correcting a spelling error to a preliminary page charting the key dates in his life. A compendium of letters written to Sydney Cockerell 1867-1962 the museum curator and collector director of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 1908-1937 and secretary to William Morris's Kelmscott Press from his wide circle of artistic and literary friends including John Ruskin Octavia Hill William Jane and May Morris Leo Tolstoy Philip Webb Lady Burne-Jones Emery Walker Thomas Hardy and many others. First edition. Inscribed by Sydney Cockerell. Publisher's original light-blue cloth with titles in brown to the spine. Bottom edge untrimmed. Illustrated with 16 black and white photographic portrait plates. A very good copy the binding square and firm with some scattered spotting to the boards and spine minor wear to the spine ends and a little bumping to the corners. The contents with a couple of small areas of abrasion to the title page causing slight loss to the wording of the subtitle/editor's name and with three small dots of related paper adhesion to the frontispiece as well as the occasional spot of light foxing to page edges are otherwise in very good order throughout. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1940 Jonathan Cape hardcover

Christian White Rare Books Ltd. · Royaume-Uni275,00 £GB≈ 314,00 €

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