细节
Art and Ballet
A selection of books, various titles include:
- SAND, Maurice Masques et Bouffons (Comédie Italienne) Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1860, 2 vol. 8°, 50 engraved plates (very light spots, light marginal browning) original pictorial cloth gilt, (edges and corners rubbed with loss) g.e., volume 1 with loosely inserted autograph letter, signed, from Donald George MacLennan, Edinburgh, 31st Dec. 1954 To my dear friend and collague of the R.A.D. Miss Margot Fonteyn, C.B.E. on her acceptance of the Presidency of the Royal Academy of Dancing...I offer these 2 old French volumes from my library..in the hope that when leisure days permit time for study she may manage to evolve some special type of ballet...bringing new lustre to the Academy and her own honoured name....;
- BOURNONVILLE, Auguste Études Chorégraphiques, Copenhagen: Imprimerie De Bianco Luno, 1861, 12°, front end paper with presentation inscription from the author, contemporary cloth, lettered on upper cover in gilt (rubbed), with loosely inserted autograph letter, signed from Adeline Genée on Hyde Park Hotel, Knightsbridge, London headed paper, [n.d. but Dec. 1965] asking Margot Fonteyn to ...accept the enclosed Bournonville book with my loving good wishes. It is one of my treasures & I could not think of it in anybody's hands but yours.... 1p.;
- SMITH, Albert The Natural History of the Ballet Girl, London: D.Bogue, 1847, 12°, engraved frontispiece and title, illustrations throughout, (one or two light spots), contemporary calf spine, raised bands and gilt in compartments, two calf lettering pieces (rubbed and water stained) t.e.g. book plate of Fritz Reiss on front pastedown, pencil inscription as front free endpaper, publisher's catalogue at the rear;
- The Uncollected work of Aubrey Beardsley, Suffolk: Richard Clay & Son, 1925, the flyleaf signed and dedicted by Ninette de Valois Margot, To wish you this evening all the success your lovely dancing deserves, Ninette de Valois - 1st performance of "Giselle" Covent Garden Opera House, June 12th 1946, illustrations throughout, contemporary pictorial cloth, (some loose pages);
eight other books and related material(a lot)
A selection of books, various titles include:
- SAND, Maurice Masques et Bouffons (Comédie Italienne) Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1860, 2 vol. 8°, 50 engraved plates (very light spots, light marginal browning) original pictorial cloth gilt, (edges and corners rubbed with loss) g.e., volume 1 with loosely inserted autograph letter, signed, from Donald George MacLennan, Edinburgh, 31st Dec. 1954 To my dear friend and collague of the R.A.D. Miss Margot Fonteyn, C.B.E. on her acceptance of the Presidency of the Royal Academy of Dancing...I offer these 2 old French volumes from my library..in the hope that when leisure days permit time for study she may manage to evolve some special type of ballet...bringing new lustre to the Academy and her own honoured name....;
- BOURNONVILLE, Auguste Études Chorégraphiques, Copenhagen: Imprimerie De Bianco Luno, 1861, 12°, front end paper with presentation inscription from the author, contemporary cloth, lettered on upper cover in gilt (rubbed), with loosely inserted autograph letter, signed from Adeline Genée on Hyde Park Hotel, Knightsbridge, London headed paper, [n.d. but Dec. 1965] asking Margot Fonteyn to ...accept the enclosed Bournonville book with my loving good wishes. It is one of my treasures & I could not think of it in anybody's hands but yours.... 1p.;
- SMITH, Albert The Natural History of the Ballet Girl, London: D.Bogue, 1847, 12°, engraved frontispiece and title, illustrations throughout, (one or two light spots), contemporary calf spine, raised bands and gilt in compartments, two calf lettering pieces (rubbed and water stained) t.e.g. book plate of Fritz Reiss on front pastedown, pencil inscription as front free endpaper, publisher's catalogue at the rear;
- The Uncollected work of Aubrey Beardsley, Suffolk: Richard Clay & Son, 1925, the flyleaf signed and dedicted by Ninette de Valois Margot, To wish you this evening all the success your lovely dancing deserves, Ninette de Valois - 1st performance of "Giselle" Covent Garden Opera House, June 12th 1946, illustrations throughout, contemporary pictorial cloth, (some loose pages);
eight other books and related material(a lot)
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