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Richard Bentley the younger (1854-1936), member of celebrated firm of London publishers, son of George Bentley (1828-1895) and gBiblio.com

Richard Bentley publisher. Two copies one proof of his pamphlet 'Death of the Broad Gauge' describing a Great Western Railway journey during the switch to Narrow Gauge in a series of letters to his father George Bentley. With printed envelope.

ref. 15960Privately printed for Richard Bentley the younger of Richard Bentley & Son New Burlington Street London. 1892 and 1893. All three items in good condition lightly aged and worn. ONE: Untitled proof with 'Proof 6.12.92 i.e. 6 December 1992' in manuscript at foot of first page. 20pp. 8vo. Unbound and unstitched. Two manuscript corrections and two indications of where maps are to be placed. The first letter is written from 'Dawlish S. Devon May 20 1892' and the last from 'Clifton May 31 1892'. A passage on pp.5-8 is under the heading 'The End of the Broad Gauge' the first paragraph reading: 'On Thursday the men arrived from all parts of the G.W. system and brought tents tools and cooking-pots. Tea was handed round in huge galvanized Swindon pails twice the size of an ordinary pail into which the mugs were dipped. The men slept on straw by the side of the line in tents and in somem places were billeted out. All preserved steady industrious quiet demeanour with purpose and alacrity quite unlike the bad half of the army which cannot go abroad and we put up with at home.' TWO: drophead title 'DEATH OF THE BROAD GAUGE.' 18pp. 8vo. Unbound and stitched. Same text as Item One but with title and entirely reset in smaller type and with substantial alterations. As an example the following passages from the conclusion of the final letter p.20 are not present in the same letter in this version p.18: 'I am making use of a smudged sheet of paper as three sides of it are quite good. Coutts have advised a payment in of £150 for which I am much obliged. . I am glad that M. M. was so considerate.' Two extra footnotes. No maps. THREE: 12mo envelope with printed form on cover headed 'TRAIN LETTER per blank Railway.' The envelope is 'To be handed in at the Railway Parcel or Booking-Office.' At foot: 'In the event of miscarriage please return to RICHARD BENTLEY & SON New Burlington Street London.' No copy listed on WorldCat and COPAC or via Libri. See Image includes partial of train letter. [Privately printed for Richard Bentley the younger, of Richard Bentley & Son, New Burlington Street, London. 1892 and 1893.] unknown

Richard M. Ford Ltd · Reino Unido£ 320,00≈ € 380,83

MOORE, Olive (pseud of Constance VAUGHAN); BOTZARIS, Sava (frontis portrait); [LAHR, Charles & BRISTOW, Alec (publishers)]Biblio.com

D. H. Lawrence-interest Further Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine

1932ref. 279168 Red Lion Street London: Blue Moon Press 1932. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION no. 14 of 99. 4to pp. 34 incl. b/w photographic frontis of Sava Botzaris' sculpture 'Olive Moore' pasted to verso facing title page. Original wood-effect patterned paper boards printed paper label to upper board. Bottom edge untrimmed. Printed on grey paper in black ink first initial green. Slight bend to boards wear to lower extremities corners bruised some darkening and cockling. Signed by Moore in black pen in her minute hand to limitation page. Else clean bright and tight. In the original delicate glassine dust-jacket preserved by a second brown paper one fashioned by PO with hand-written title to spine: worn and torn. Near fine/ good-only Jisc LHD locates 7 copies 5 legal deposit libraries except NLW/LGC UoNottingham & Senate House Library. A rather glorious copy of this fragile and oddly attractive edition of Moore's meditation on D H Lawrence which sold out almost immediately and within a year was "almost impossible to obtain." The elusive British author and journalist Olive Moore pseud. of Miriam Constance Beaumont Vaughan; 1901-1979 described variously as an "enfant terrible of British literature" "a cross between Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes but with a more biting wit" and aptly for this title "the female Lawrence" is perhaps best known for her sudden disappearance from the London literary scene from 1934. Recent scholarship which has significantly swelled knowledge of her later life and work reveals that "despite her rising success and notoriety as a novelist Moore was clearly unhappy": "I feel on the verge of collapse; all day; I weep down streets uncontrolled and unladylike" she wrote to the poet Rex Fairburn in 1932 the year her friends Charles Lahr and Alec Bristow of the Red Lion Bookshop published her Lawrence essay Cavey 2022. Lahr had known Lawrence well and Blue Moon Press had published the first unexpurgated edition of his final poetry collection Pansies three years earlier. 1932 saw a glut of Lawrence-related publications the author having died in 1930. A marked departure from her earlier three novels all published by Jarrolds Further Reflections proved Moore's penultimate literary publication and was included in her final outing the collection of pensées The Apple is Bitten Again Wishart 1934 as she was "sick and tired of being quoted and plagiarised without acknowledgement". The striking photographic frontis featuring Sava Botzaris' sculpture of the author was also reproduced in The Apple Is Bitten Again as well as being reused in the Dalkey Archive Press edition of Moore's Collected Writings 1992. Moore had married the Serbian sculptor in 1924; they separated in the late 1930s and divorced sometime in the following decade. Sophie Cavey 2022 'Olive Moore: A new biography' in Feminist Modernist Studies 5:1 pp. 1-20 Blue Moon Press hardcover

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