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GATHORNE-HARDY, Robert (1902-1973). Village Symphony. Stanford Dingley: The Mill House Press, 1926. 8°. Hand-set and printed. Original black, fried-egg pattern oversized wrappers with label. ONE OF ONLY 15 COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 5. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in green ink 'Lady Ottoline from Bob'.
GATHORNE-HARDY, Robert. The Old Companion: A Poem. Stanford Dingley: The Mill House Press, 1927. 4°. Title, poem titles and colophon printed in red, title-page device in blue, hand-set and printed by Kyrle Lenge and Robert Gathorne-Hardy (with single correction in ink). Pages unnumbered. Original red marbled paper boards (faded and perished at spine). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Lady Ottoline from Bob Sept 19. 27.'
GATHORNE-HARDY, Robert. Lacebury Manor. London: Collins, 1930. 8°. Illustrations. Original green cloth binding, front panel of dust-jacket bound in. ONE OF 12 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'One of 12 illustrated copies to Lady Ottoline Morrell with love from Bob' (and with identical inscription upside down at end).
GATHORNE-HARDY, Robert. Village Symphony and Other Poems. London: Collins, 1931. 8°. Original red cloth, dust-jacket (dust-jacket darkened at spine). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'For Lady Ottoline with very best love from Bob June 27/31'. With a letter presenting the volume and asking about progress with her memoirs, which he was to edit more than 30 years later.
GATHORNE-HARDY, Robert. The White Horse. Stanford Dingley: The Mill House Press, 1931. 8°. Original red cloth faded at spine. ONE OF 50 COPIES PRIVATELY PRINTED. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'For Lady Ottoline with love from Bob Nov 28/31'.
GATHORNE-HARDY, Robert. The Wind and the Waterfall. London: Collins, 1938. 8°. Original blue-grey cloth stained. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'For Ottoline with fondest love from Bob 1.1.38'. With two others, similarly inscribed.
[GATHORNE-HARDY, Robert (1902-1973)]. Darian. Stanford Dingley: The Mill House Press, 1928. 8°. Hand-coloured initials in red and blue, hand-set and printed by Kyrle Lenge and Robert Gathorne-Hardy, pages unnumbered. Original marbled paper boards faded, vellum spine. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Lady Ottoline, with best love from Bob for Christmas 1928'.
GATHORNE-HARDY, Robert. Three autograph letters signed ('Bob'), to Lady Ottoline, The Mill House, Stanford Dingley, 27 November 1933, 4 February 1934 (including a discussion of Henry James's short stories, 'there is such beauty in them'), 29 December 1934 (sending a book of his latest poems, as she is setting off for India), together 4½ pages, 4to. 'I have just finished reading your memoirs I found them beautiful and fascinating, & in parts very moving' - his constructive criticism and suggestions for changes reveal much about Morrell's character: 'I miss the sense of the ludicrous which you have in conversation....that appalling scene ... those horrible letters. While it was infinitely unpleasant, you were aware of an absurd, grotesque aspect.' As a postscript he includes a poem he has just written entitled 'After my Death'.
Robert Gathorne-Hardy developed his bibliographical interests while working at Elkin Mathews bookshop under Percy Muir. In 1925 he went to live with his friend Kyrle Leng at Stanford Dingley in Berkshire. As well as Gathorne-Hardy's own writing, they printed work by Sassoon and others. Gathorne-Hardy, very much a 1920s Oxford aesthete, wrote several well-received works about plants and gardens as well as Recollections of Logan Pearsall Smith. As one of Morrell's literary executors, he edited the two volumes of Ottoline Morrell's memoirs in 1963 and 1974. (13)
GATHORNE-HARDY, Robert. The Old Companion: A Poem. Stanford Dingley: The Mill House Press, 1927. 4°. Title, poem titles and colophon printed in red, title-page device in blue, hand-set and printed by Kyrle Lenge and Robert Gathorne-Hardy (with single correction in ink). Pages unnumbered. Original red marbled paper boards (faded and perished at spine). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Lady Ottoline from Bob Sept 19. 27.'
GATHORNE-HARDY, Robert. Lacebury Manor. London: Collins, 1930. 8°. Illustrations. Original green cloth binding, front panel of dust-jacket bound in. ONE OF 12 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'One of 12 illustrated copies to Lady Ottoline Morrell with love from Bob' (and with identical inscription upside down at end).
GATHORNE-HARDY, Robert. Village Symphony and Other Poems. London: Collins, 1931. 8°. Original red cloth, dust-jacket (dust-jacket darkened at spine). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'For Lady Ottoline with very best love from Bob June 27/31'. With a letter presenting the volume and asking about progress with her memoirs, which he was to edit more than 30 years later.
GATHORNE-HARDY, Robert. The White Horse. Stanford Dingley: The Mill House Press, 1931. 8°. Original red cloth faded at spine. ONE OF 50 COPIES PRIVATELY PRINTED. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'For Lady Ottoline with love from Bob Nov 28/31'.
GATHORNE-HARDY, Robert. The Wind and the Waterfall. London: Collins, 1938. 8°. Original blue-grey cloth stained. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'For Ottoline with fondest love from Bob 1.1.38'. With two others, similarly inscribed.
[GATHORNE-HARDY, Robert (1902-1973)]. Darian. Stanford Dingley: The Mill House Press, 1928. 8°. Hand-coloured initials in red and blue, hand-set and printed by Kyrle Lenge and Robert Gathorne-Hardy, pages unnumbered. Original marbled paper boards faded, vellum spine. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Lady Ottoline, with best love from Bob for Christmas 1928'.
GATHORNE-HARDY, Robert. Three autograph letters signed ('Bob'), to Lady Ottoline, The Mill House, Stanford Dingley, 27 November 1933, 4 February 1934 (including a discussion of Henry James's short stories, 'there is such beauty in them'), 29 December 1934 (sending a book of his latest poems, as she is setting off for India), together 4½ pages, 4to. 'I have just finished reading your memoirs I found them beautiful and fascinating, & in parts very moving' - his constructive criticism and suggestions for changes reveal much about Morrell's character: 'I miss the sense of the ludicrous which you have in conversation....that appalling scene ... those horrible letters. While it was infinitely unpleasant, you were aware of an absurd, grotesque aspect.' As a postscript he includes a poem he has just written entitled 'After my Death'.
Robert Gathorne-Hardy developed his bibliographical interests while working at Elkin Mathews bookshop under Percy Muir. In 1925 he went to live with his friend Kyrle Leng at Stanford Dingley in Berkshire. As well as Gathorne-Hardy's own writing, they printed work by Sassoon and others. Gathorne-Hardy, very much a 1920s Oxford aesthete, wrote several well-received works about plants and gardens as well as Recollections of Logan Pearsall Smith. As one of Morrell's literary executors, he edited the two volumes of Ottoline Morrell's memoirs in 1963 and 1974. (13)
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