Contains copies of the Exeter City and East Devon edition of The Western Morning News, commemorating the 800th anniversary of Exeter Cathedral, for 26, 28, 29 and 30 June and 1 July 1933, with the colour supplement of 24 June.
Printed ephemera of Gordon Bottomley relating to illumination and calligraphy - postcard sets
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Contains postcard sets from the British Museum: reproductions from Cotton Domitian A XVII, Stowe 17, Add 18850, and Harley 4379, 4380, 4425, and 4431. Also contains reproductions from the Book of Kells and of manuscripts from the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Contains pamphlets and programmes issued to commemorate the 800th anniversary of Exeter Cathedral, including the performance of Bottomley’s Acts of St Peter, as well as associated press cuttings, original artwork and photographs of the performances at Exeter, and afterwards at Westminster, Peterb...
Designs and illustrations, engraver’s proofs etc., with associated printed material, of James Joshua Guthrie for his own publishing house, along with other book illustration work, bookplates, etc, and other illustrative work by John Guthrie and Stuart Guthrie, and work by Daniel Phaër (a pseudony...
Charles Ricketts's work for Salome and The Merchant of Venice
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Contains a small black album of photographs of Ricketts’s designs for these productions, along with a guide by Gordon Bottomley to the colour of the costumes, and two associated envelopes of further prints and negatives, together with some assorted prints of Ricketts’s theatrical set designs and ...