MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. LXV. T. A. Guthrie, 'The Brass Bottle'; 1907. Autograph. First produced 1909. Paper; ff. 131. 275 x 225mm. approx. Original foliation 1-128 through ff. 5-131. Tan morocco binding by W. H. Smith & Son for E. G. Millar.
Vol. XCVII (ff. 209). Correspondence relating to acquisition of manuscripts to Millar's collection and (from f. 80) of a general bibliographical nature; 1903-1957. Some French. Eric George Millar, DLitt.; Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum: Correspondence and papers rel. to manuscripts: 1903...
MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. XLIX. T. A. Guthrie, notebook from the Cambridge period; circa 1877. Autograph drafts. Paper; ff. 23. 223 x 180mm. Binding of stiff card with black cloth cover.
MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. LV. T. A. Guthrie, notebook, including material for Mr. Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas (1892), Voces Populi, Second Series (1892). Reversed is material for The Travelling Companions (1892); circa 1891-1892. Autograph. Paper; ff. 35. 175 x 110mm. Red morocco bind...
MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. LXIX B. Notes, etc.; circa 1898, n.d. Included is material for Love Among the Lions (1898), for a pantomime, for other children's stories, and a sketch of In Brief Authority. Reversed are further notes on pantomime and other miscellaneous reading, etc. Paper; ff. 83. 113 x...
MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. LXXXII. T. A. Guthrie, film scenarios; 1915-1918. Chiefly autograph drafts. Paper; ff. 239. Contents: 1. ff. 1-72. 'The Tinted Venus'; 1915. Autograph draft and typewritten copy. The draft is dated 21 March 1915 (f. 28). 2. ff. 73-106. 'The Two Andromedas' (based on Lyre a...
MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. XIX. St Antoninus of Florence, 'Interroghatorio', written in Italy, possibly Florence; third quarter of the 15th cent. Italian. One of the Confessionale composed by St Antoninus Forciglioni, Dominican Archbishop of Florence (d.1459; canonized 1523) to whom four confession ma...
MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. XXI. Miniatures by Caleb W. Wing; circa 1855. From a series of nine miniatures added by Wing to a Flemish Book of Hours owned by John Boykett Jarman. J. M. Backhouse, 'Forgeries', BMQ, xxxiii, p. 40; J. M. Backhouse, 'A Victorian Connoisseur and his Manuscripts. The Tale of Mr. Jarman and Mr. Wing', BMQ, xxxii (1968), pp. 76-92. Jarman sale, Sotheby's, 13 June 1864, lot 72. The MS. was purchased by Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham (1896) from Lilly in 1866, and incl...
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Caleb W. Wing, artist: Forgeries: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Miniatures by Caleb W. Wing: circa 1855.