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FRY, ROGER: : FLEMISH ART: a critical survey by Roger Fry. [ALS by Author]

LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS LTD.,1927.

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UK,protected,slim Qrto HB,minus issued dw/dj, SIGNED Autographed letter/association copy,1st edn.[ALS (Autographed letter,Signed).Tipped/ pasted to front pastedown,on Roger Fry's personal,address-headed notepaper,an inked handwritten correspondence letter with dateline and his signature,for the book's owner; who has her own ex-libris bookplate tipped/pasted in to front free endpaper opposite the letter.] VG. Owner's b/w line illustrated ink handwritten named EX LIBRIS bookplate pasted to ffe,and author's ALS pasted to front pastedown and minus issued dw/dj.Tipped/pasted to front pastedown is the author's personal,address-headed notepaper with handwritten ink letter which includes a dateline and his signature thus: "48 Bernard Street,W,C,1 Telephone: Museum 7311 Dec. 17. 27 'Dear Joyce Agnes tells me she thinks you would like a copy of these family lithographs.So I send them with my best wishes.I am very anxious to see your photographs I shall be at Failand from Dec. 23 to about Dec. 28 Could you arrange for me to see them? Yours very sincerely Roger Fry.' Publishers original beige paper-covered brown designed illustration to front board and bright, crisp,stamped brown ink lettering to a brown+beige cloth blindspine,rear board unillustrated but lightly grubbed and foxed/ spotted; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Inevitable but minimal and ubiquitous rubbing to card boards' paper-covered corners. Top+fore-edges aged/toned and untrimmed; contents generally bright,tight,clean with limited and minor,minimal foxing/spotting noticeably to prelims; solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread apart from my own collation.UK, protected,slim Qrto HB,minus dw/dj,SIGNED autograph letter/association copy,1st edn,v-viiipp+1-55pp [paginated] includes a preface, illustrations list/table,31 b/w illustrations in 3 blocks, between pp16/7,pp32/3 and pp48/9 respectively; plus [unpaginated] off-set foxing to half-title page,b/w frntis,and foxed/spotted title page. An interesting and a warmly personal and definable association copy.See also my book ID rja34099 for another familial antecedent's association copy for Elizabeth Fry's first published book 'OBSERVATIONS ON THE VISITING, SUPERINTENDENCE,AND GOVERNMENT OF FEMALE PRISONERS.' Flemish Art and artists - an aesthetic interpretation by Roger Fry.Artists include: John & Hubert van Eyck,Petrs Christus,Quentin Metsys,Pieter Brueghel, Rubens and Jordaens amongst others.The exhibition of Flemish Art held at Burlington House in the winter of 1926-7 aroused such widespread interest that the committee of the National Art Collections Fund decided to to invite the members of that society to a lecture on the exhibition,which was delivered in the Queen's Hall om March 24,1927. The following pages are the text of that lecture with a few minor alterations and with the inclusion of some passages which were not delivered on that occasion for want of time. The 'Bloomsbury Set' or 'Bloomsbury Group' were an influential group of associated English writers,intellectuals, philosophers and artists,the best known members of which included Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes,E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey.This loose collective of friends and relatives were closely associated with Cambridge University and lived,worked or studied together near Bloomsbury,London,during the first half of the 20th century.Taking their name from the West Central 1 district of London known as Bloomsbury where many of them lived,it was an influential and informal network that supported each other's careers. Failand House in Somerset near Bristol,was built in 1720 by Abraham Elton who was an ancestor of Sir Edmund Elton of Clevedon Court.It was bought by the family of Sir Edward Fry in 1875.Through the ownership of that house,and through the gradual acquisition of land from the previously mixed ownership around it,the Fry family eventually formed the estate that would later be given to the National Trust,on the death of his daughter Agnes Fry.The Frys mainly used the house and the 200 acres attached to it as a country retreat. Sir Edward Fry was born in 1827 in a house next to the original Frys chocolate factory (built 1795) in Union Street, Bristol.His father Joseph was involved in the family's chocolate business.Edward became a lawyer and later a London High Court Judge,he retired in 1892 and made Failand House his permanent residence.Sir Edward Fry died in 1918 aged 91.It was Agnes Fry,one of his daughters,who left the 363 acre estate to the National Trust in 1958.The house is now owned privately and is without public access. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free.Free P+p available UK only. ** N.B. 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UK,slim Qrto HB,minus dw/dj,SIGNED autograph letter/ssociation copy,1st edn.
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