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Edité par Miniature Print Society, Kansas City, Missouri
Vendeur : Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, Etats-Unis
Livre
No Binding. Etat : Collectible-Very Good. Circa 1940s. One of 250 copies. Print: 2 x 3 1/2 inch, impressed onto a paper rag sheet (6 x 4 1/2 inch) which is mounted into the original folder (8 1/2 x 11 inch). Includes separate inserted sheet with brief essay entitled "Man with a Drunk Horse" by Paul Gardner and the original envelope. The print was taken from a engraved plate made in 1806. Thomas Butts, junior was the son of William Blake's patron Thomas Butts and was trained by William Blake who he did not like. This plate was created four weeks after the son began his training. Very good clean copy of this plate.
Edité par 'Given at Our Court at Carlton House the Sixteenth Day of March In the Fifty fifth Year of Our Reign.', 1815
Vendeur : Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Royaume-Uni
Manuscrit / Papier ancien
On one side of a 29 x 39 cm piece of vellum. In fair condition, with the usual discoloration found in vellum. A printed document, completed in manuscript, with a good example of George IV's signature as Prince Regent ('George P R') at top left. The royal seal has been removed from the space beneath the Prince Regent's signature. The signature of the Home Secretary ('Sidmouth') is at bottom right, somewhat faded. The document is a warrant appointing 'George Philips Esqr. Captain in the York Chasseurs', 'Commanded by Our Trusty and Welbeloved Major General Hugh Mackay Gordon'. Printed at the head of the document: 'In the Name and on the Behalf of His Majesty.' Tax stamp on blue paper in left-hand margin, with corresponding label on the reverse. Beneath the text, towards bottom left is the signature of William Blake's patron, Thomas Butts, as Assistant Commissary of Musters: 'Entered with the Comsry General of Musters. | Tho: Butts'. In the margin beneath the tax stamp: 'Entered with the Secretary at War | Robt Lukin' (i.e. Robert Lukin (1772-1835). From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.