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A PAIR OF FRENCH PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE GREY-GROUND RECTANGULAR PLAQUES CIRCA 1865
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A PAIR OF FRENCH PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE GREY-GROUND RECTANGULAR PLAQUES CIRCA 1865decorated by Marc Louis Solon,one incised M, the other MILES,eachdecorated in white slip with a seated female figure wearing a diaphanous costume, one holding a candle with four cupids flying around it, the other holding a vase of flowers with three flying cupids, reserved on a mottled-grey ground, enriched with gilt foliage, bothincised Rousseau/Paris, letter R, inscribed Rousseau/ rue Coquilliére/ Paris, partially legiblescript 'no100/Pates ce (?)/ blanc decor c 4 (?)/ No - ch...',framed.Plaques 4½ x 3½ in.11.3 x 8.9 cm
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Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
From Oct. 23, 2019 to Oct. 23, 2019 in New York
LAWRENCE, T.E. (introduction) | DOUGHTY, Travels in Arabia Deserta, 1921, 2 volumes, signed
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From the Library of Alan MilneLAWRENCE, T.E. (CONTRIBUTOR) DOUGHTY, CHARLES M. TRAVELS INARABIADESERTA. (LONDON AND BOSTON:) PHILIP LEE WARNER, FOR THE MEDICI SOCIETY AND JONATHAN CAPE,19218vo, 2 volumes, second edition with new preface by the author and introduction by T.E.Lawrence, ONE OF 500 COPIES, photographic frontispiece in volume 1, SIGNED BY DOUGHTY ON THE HALF-TITLE,plates and folding maps in volume 1, extra folding map in pocket at end of volume I, original green cloth pictorially gilt, black endpapers, top edges gilt, prospectus loosely inserted, spotting, upper joint weak, some edge-wear to bindingA SIGNED COPY OFDOUGHTY'S CLASSIC OF TRAVEL LITERATURE. T.E.Lawrencehad long admiredDoughty's classic work and in 1920 he persuaded Jonathan Cape to undertake a new edition. It was Cape's first book, published in January1921.LITERATURE:O'Brien A013
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Books and Manuscripts: A Summer Miscellany
From July 28, 2020 to Aug. 4, 2020 in London
