(1) Mounted photograph (235 x 170mm) of Anthony Dickins playing the piano, inscribed on the front: 'for Tambi in remembrance Tony'. (2) Photograph (250 x 195mm) of a pen and wash portrait, inscribed on the verso: 'John Waller: Portrait by Sevek'. Published as the frontispiece to Waller, The Me...
M J T Tambimuttu: 'Art Among Lunatics' (exhibition) by Frank Morse-Rummel
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Introductory text (3 sheets, Anglo-American Press Service) for an exhibition, 'Art Among Lunatics' by Frank Morse-Rummel, together with 10 photographs (each approximately 180 x 130mm) of various paintings. Each photograph has a label (typescript) attached to the verso, indicating that the pain...
Decorative Printed Advertisements for Various London Tradesmen
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Copies of decorative 18th century trade cards of various London tradesmen, printed one or more to a sheet, including John Edwards (collier); Thomas Berry (leather cloggs), Garnham Edwards (silk clothing); Robert Legg (undertaker); Thomas Edwards ('asses milk'); William Conanay (lamps, lanthorns a...
Two labels for J Tambimuttu marked 'P&O Cabin' (Cabin 307), and two labels for J Tambimuttu marked 'P&O Hold', both for the ship S S Canton. Also, two labels for 'P&O S N Co' London to Colombo, and a smaller baggage label for the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. The...
Various items, comprising: lunch menu written in pencil for Tuesday 14 September [1948]; address for V M Philips, Lampeter, Cardiganshire; a list of classical records; notes (Italian) in pencil headed 'Santa Lucia' and on the verso notes (French) headed 'Madame la Marquise'; brief letter to Tam...
A folding promotional sheet from the Lyrebird Press Ltd, with 'Greetings From Tambimuttu' printed inside, opposite an image of printer's instructions for the title-page of Poems from Bangla Desh: The Voice of a New Nation (published by the Lyrebird Press in 1972). Also, a single folded sheet with...