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Tyrone Power I [William Grattan Tyrone Power] (1797-1841), celebrated Irish actor, great-grandfather of the eponymous film starBiblio.com

Tyrone Power I celebrated Irish actor. Seven items: two drafts of Typed Article on him for 'Everybody's' magazine by theatre historian W. Macqueen-Pope with page proof of the same and related correspondence and other items.

Best.-Nr. 24587Seven items all dating from 1950. ‘Everybody’s’ magazine 114 Fleet Street London. From the Macqueen-Pope papers. See his entry and that of Power in the Oxford DNB. The seven items are in good condition lightly aged and worn. ONE: Typed article titled ‘The Other Tyrone Power / by / W. Macqueen-Pope.’ Undated. 11pp 4to paginated 1-9 with two-page ‘Inset’. With a few minor autograph emendations. Begins: ‘At the present moment Mr Tyrone Power “in person” is appearing at the London Coliseum in a play called “Mr Roberts”. . The fact is that there was another Tyrone Power who was a very celebrated actor indeed in his time.’ TWO: Another copy of Item One but without any autograph emendations. THREE: Page proof of MP’s article stamped ‘19 AUG 1950 / EVERYBODY’S’. 1p folio with small square of paper with additional text attached at foot and proof of a cartoon titled ‘Ferrier’s Searchlight critical of Noel Coward’s play ‘Ace of Clubs’. FOUR: TLS to MP from Sidney Gordon Features Editor. 1p small 4to. He informs him that the editor ‘Mr Poke’ Greville Poke 1912-2000 who also has an Oxford DNB entry ‘would very much like to go ahead with it. / It would certainly tie-up with “Mister Roberts” and perhaps you would send the MS in to us as soon possible’. FIVE: Carbon of TL from MP to ‘Mr. Gordon’ 28 July 1950. He is enclosing the article with suggestions for illustrations including photos of the film star by Angus McBean. SIX: Typed acknowledgement of receipt of article ‘The other Tyrone Power’. On printed envelope addressed to ‘Macqueen Pope Esquire. / 359 Strand / W.C.2.’ 1p 12mo. SEVEN: Carbon of Typed Letter from MP to‘Mrs Guthrie’. 3 October 1950. 1p 4to. He is especially grateful to her for her informative letter as he would ‘like to put this actor who has been so neglected into some sort of proper recognition and remembrance’. He discusses the colour of Power’s hair before concluding ‘I know Mr Tyrone Guthrie but never knew of his connection with Power.’ Postscript: ‘Besides my work in the Theatre and at Drury Lane I am a theatre historian with a fair amount of books to my credit.’ Seven items, all dating from 1950. [‘Everybody’s’, magazine, 114 Fleet Street, London.] unknown

Richard M. Ford Ltd · Vereinigtes Königreich120,00 £≈ 142,81 €

STAR WORSHIP IN JAPANABAA

Two finely illustrated handscrolls on fine paper related to star worship the first entitled at beginning “Chojo hitoki” “Ascending to the Heavens or possibly Mt. Meru the central axis of the universe in Buddhist cosmology Written Down”; the second scroll with indecipherable title on outer front endpaper

Best.-Nr. 9137Numerous fine paintings & diagrams throughout using blue green red gray yellow much gold silver & flesh-colored pigments. Siddham script in several places. Two scrolls 185 x 17660 mm.; 175 x 9210 mm. each with gold-speckled inner endpapers at front dark blue paper on outsides. At the end of the first scroll a note states these texts were first written in 1192 Kenkyū 建久 3 & copied on an auspicious day in the 12th month of Genna 元和 5 this part of Genna 5 corresponds to 1620; the second scroll is also dated at end “the 12th month of Genna 5.” These two scrolls are related to a kind of Daoist-influenced star worship that was associated with esoteric Buddhism. This practice became popular within the Japanese aristocracy in the medieval period. It drew on several strands of thought imported from China that were synthesized in Japanese religious practice. Buddhism as it appeared when imported to China from India and Central Asia in the first millennium CE carried with it astronomical and astrological knowledge including an identification of the planets and their association with the calendar e.g. the association between the planets and the days of the week still apparent in the modern Japanese names for them. In China this knowledge became influenced by Daoism exemplified for example by the worship of the stars of the Big Dipper Ch.: beidou J.: hokuto 北斗. In medieval Japan star worship under the auspices of esoteric Shingon and Tendai Buddhism became popular and highly ritualized. One star-related ritual expressed the worship of an individual’s birth and year stars. During these rituals offerings were made to a star or a constellation to obtain fortune or longevity. Such rituals are described in these two scrolls. Mandala dhÄraṇī and mudrÄ were important features of ritualized star worship and the three of them are present in the first scroll. There is a fine series of 158 flesh-toned paintings of mudrÄ gestures of the hand depicted and labeled. MudrÄ were hand and arm gestures made during the course of ritual practice or depicted in images of buddhas bodhisttvas tantric deities and other Buddhist images. With the development of Mahayana and Vajrayana iconography the number of mudrÄ proliferated and reaching the hundreds. DhÄraṇī were incantations and are presented as lists of syllables written in the Indic Siddham script. There is also a diagram a mandala depicting the Big Dipper the legends reference the earthly branches each listed as either yin or yang. The second scroll includes among other things a list of the Seven Planets sun moon and the planets of the solar system minus Neptune and Pluto and associated Buddhist deities stars in the constellation of the Big Dipper and years in the sexagenary calendrical cycle. Through this list an individual’s personal star can be determined. Further into the scroll the layout of the altar featuring e.g. silver coins food offerings and candles and the conduct of the rituals for various kinds of worship are described and illustrated in a series of scenes. Ritual objects like mandalas with Siddham characters are depicted as well. The instructions for the conduct of these rituals include the performance of combinations of mudrÄ and dhÄraṇī associated with the mystery of the body and the mystery of speech respectively. In addition to the importance of the Big Dipper the Daoist influence on these scrolls is evident in its mention of deities such as the Dongyue emperor and Huang Shigong. Very good preserved in a modern box. Some worming carefully repaired. unknown books

Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. · Vereinigte Staaten13.500,00 $≈ 12.037,45 €

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