Golden Remains, of the Ever Memorable Mr. John Hales, of Eaton-Colledge, &c. With Additions from the Authors own Copy, viz Sermons and Miscellanies. Also Letters and Expresses Concerning the Synod of Dort. From an Authentick Hand

HALES, John ~(Rex Whistler / Ronald Fuller)

Verlag: T. B. for George Pawlet, London, 1688

Beschreibung

~Original dark brown speckled calf, double blind fillets forming frames to boards, decorated at the corners with small tools. Flat spine ruled with double blind fillets. Gilt decor to board edges, rubbed. All edges speckled red. Board corners slightly pushed in. Chipping to base and top of spine, and splitting at top of spine over front (5.5cm) and rear (11cm) hinges. Endpapers split at gutters. Both hinges cracking but strings holding. Front pastedown partially detached. Front and rear free endpapers trimmed to stubs. Loss to bottom corner of rear blank endpage. A little scattered foxing. Minor dampstaining to top outer corner of pp. 271-481. Lacking the additional engraved title page (plate) called for in ESTC. 8vo (12.2 x 19.5cm). Pictorial bookplate of Ronald Fuller to inside front board, together with Fuller's signature dated September 1965. This is the first bookplate designed by Rex Whistler (1905-1944), who was a close friend of Ronald Fuller's at Haileybury School, 'where they shared a love of eccentricity and illustrated books - Whistler generally illustrating Fuller s stories (in later life, Fuller co-wrote Whistler s catalogue raisonne ). An exceptionally bright student, Fuller went on to study at Merton College, Oxford in the 1920s (the pair remained friends and Whistler designed his first-ever bookplate for Fuller while at Merton)' (Sim Fine Art, Holding the Line , p. 40). Fuller went on to establish himself as a literary critic and wrote 'a pair of distinctly eccentric but scholarly books called The Beggars Brotherhood (a history of begging) and Hell-Fire Francis (a history of the notorious Francis Dashwood and the Hell-Fire Club)' (ibid). Whistler's ornate bookplate, complete with Death, Devil, and Medusa, certainly suggests the fascination with dense decoration and rococo whimsy that was to mark his later work. Fuller, who was a conscientious objector and served as an ambulanceman during the Blitz, long outlived Whistler, who was killed in action in WW2. Title page printed in red and black. John Hales (1584-1656), celebrated Oxford scholar and fellow of Eton, described by Andrew Marvell as 'one of the clearest heads and best prepared brests in Christendom' (The Rehearsal Transpros'd, 1971 edn, p. 79). ESTC R14621. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable, others on request. Size: (16), 591, (1)pp. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers FF5769

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Golden Remains, of the Ever Memorable Mr. ...

Verlag: T. B. for George Pawlet, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1688

Einband: Hardback

Zustand: Good+

Auflage: 3rd edn / 1st edn thus.

Art des Buches: Binding sound, text unmarked