WOOLNER, THOMAS. My Beautiful Lady, 1863, cloth, cloth slipcase , a fine copy of the author's first book, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Woolner at top of title-page: "For Roden Noel from the Author" (the recipient was a fellow poet -- see note to lot ). The title poem first appeared in The Germ ; Pygmalion, 1881, cloth, top of spine defective . Tipped in is an autograph letter signed from Woolner to the Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Madox Brown Godstone (the Rajah of Sarawak's residence), 11 September [1859], one page, 8vo, integral blank leaf , congratulating Brown on a prize he had won at Liverpool, discussing in some detail a bust he is doing of Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, and noting: "...I have been so much absorbed in writing my poem that I have not been able to tear myself away for anything that I could possibly avoid: but I hope you will call and see my bust of the great Rajah when I return..." Ownership inscription of Thomas Hutchinson (editor of various reprints of the poets) and bookplate of F.L. Pleadwell; Silenus, 1884, cloth, cloth slipcase , PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Woolner on front free endpaper: "To George Bell with the Author's Kind regards 1885" (the recipient was the publisher of Woolner's next two books); Poems: Nelly Dale, Children, 1887, small 8vo, original printed wrappers bound into red morocco covers (the latter rebacked) , with the name "Alfred." on title-page in Woolner's hand, scarce; all London, together 4 vols., 8vo, original bindings , FIRST EDITIONS of four of the five (lacking Tiresias , 1886) of Woolner's books of poetry. Fredeman 40.1, 40.2, 40.3, and 40.5. "Woolner may well have been the most minor of all the Pre-Raphaelites, both as a poet and an artist, but he does reveal the Pre-Raphaelite concern with universal artistry, and the tendency to fuse (or confuse) the plastic and the verbal arts"--Fredeman, p. 149. (4)
WOOLNER, THOMAS. My Beautiful Lady, 1863, cloth, cloth slipcase , a fine copy of the author's first book, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Woolner at top of title-page: "For Roden Noel from the Author" (the recipient was a fellow poet -- see note to lot ). The title poem first appeared in The Germ ; Pygmalion, 1881, cloth, top of spine defective . Tipped in is an autograph letter signed from Woolner to the Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Madox Brown Godstone (the Rajah of Sarawak's residence), 11 September [1859], one page, 8vo, integral blank leaf , congratulating Brown on a prize he had won at Liverpool, discussing in some detail a bust he is doing of Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, and noting: "...I have been so much absorbed in writing my poem that I have not been able to tear myself away for anything that I could possibly avoid: but I hope you will call and see my bust of the great Rajah when I return..." Ownership inscription of Thomas Hutchinson (editor of various reprints of the poets) and bookplate of F.L. Pleadwell; Silenus, 1884, cloth, cloth slipcase , PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Woolner on front free endpaper: "To George Bell with the Author's Kind regards 1885" (the recipient was the publisher of Woolner's next two books); Poems: Nelly Dale, Children, 1887, small 8vo, original printed wrappers bound into red morocco covers (the latter rebacked) , with the name "Alfred." on title-page in Woolner's hand, scarce; all London, together 4 vols., 8vo, original bindings , FIRST EDITIONS of four of the five (lacking Tiresias , 1886) of Woolner's books of poetry. Fredeman 40.1, 40.2, 40.3, and 40.5. "Woolner may well have been the most minor of all the Pre-Raphaelites, both as a poet and an artist, but he does reveal the Pre-Raphaelite concern with universal artistry, and the tendency to fuse (or confuse) the plastic and the verbal arts"--Fredeman, p. 149. (4)
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