GEMS OF THE KOLKHORST COLLECTION, A Series of Artistic Plates specially wrought by hand, n.d. Five drawings in ink or pencil, all with watercolour, with calligraphic title and individual captions, 6 pages, small 4°, unbound. The objects portrayed are “An Old Firing Stool .. [XIIth Century]”; “A Chickhatch..”; “Spanish Renaissance Light Fixture once in the Study or Den of Lope de Vega”; “An Old Rabbit dug up from an Old Earthwork”; “Staffordshire Figure .. of Dr George Alfred Magee..” (caricature of Kolkhorst). George Alfred Kolkhorst, Oxford University Reader in Spanish, salonist and dedicated to the preservation of the aesthetic standards of the nineties, was often the butt of Betjeman’s affectionate raillery. Provenance: Kolkhorst sale, Sotheby's 23 March 1959.