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LOT 3166
26th July 2023
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LOT 3166
MANUSCRIPT. [A 'Visitors Book' for The Bruton Galleries, Bond Street, London, n.p.: 1904-1936.] 113pp., manuscript, folio (283 x 245mm.) 113pp. of hand-written names and addresses, recto only, being approximately 2000 names including numerous members of the 'Discovery' expedition, including Ernest Shackleton, Edward A. Wilson, Charles Royds, Reginald Skelton, Clement Markham, Ernest E Joyce, and three Shackleton family members, two of them from the '12, West Hill' address, as well as Ellen Terry, Walter Jerrold, Baden-Powell, and Maria Ameila, Queen of Portugal, also a section of names under 'Hunting Exhibition- March 1936', numerous blank leaves to rear. (Mild toning.) Contemporary red morocco, gilt borders, g.e. (extremities rubbed, scuffing). Note: Bruton Galleries opened in 1904 and closed in 1907, having held exhibitions of the work of Beardsley, Austin Spare, Evelyn de Morgan and Edward Gordon Craig. One of the Bruton Galleries first exhibitions was of the 'Discovery/ Antarctic' expedition. The crew returned home in February 1904 and the exhibition, showing sketches, photographs and objects, opened in November of the same year.
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