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THEOPHILUS JOHNSON (1836-1919)
Shells of Mollusks systematically arranged. [Dartford: privately printed,] 1906 [but 1909-1910]. 8° (228 x 148mm). 30 full-page watercolour drawings of shells, numbered in pencil 1-13, 15-23, 25-31 and one unnumbered at end, 38 letterpress leaves paginating:[2, title], [1-]6 (preface), [7-]24, [1, blank], 27-29, [1, blank], 25, 30-54, 55 (cancel page of text pasted onto cancelland), 56-69. (Perhaps lacking plates 14 and 24, one leaf pp.53-54 chipped and creased, light soiling throughout, the whole loose.) Disbound, retaining original stitching and original printed upper wrapper with title Examples of the Art of Theo: Johnson as shown in his principal works, dated 1909-1910, with central watercolour vignette of a shell with Latin name captioned in pencil (upper wrapper lightly soiled and unevenly faded).
UNRECORDED EXAMPLE OF ONE OF JOHNSON'S LAST WORKS. Radclyffe mentions that Johnson, in a letter to Messrs Sotheran in 1913, stated that 'under the simple title of "The Art of Theo. Johnson" I hope then to compile a selection of subjects from my principal works and let that be the last effort of my pen and pencil. I do not quite like the idea of leaving nothing behind me for those who may like something in the way of art by which to remember me.' This would appear to be part of that project, an example of which Radclyffe could find no copy, though he states: 'it would not completely surprise me if such a work should someday surface from oblivion' (p.190). The only copy of Johnson's 1906 publication The Shells of Mollusks that we can trace was sold by Sotheby's 29 June 1931, lot 356, bought for 2 shillings by Bernard Quaritch.
Shells of Mollusks systematically arranged. [Dartford: privately printed,] 1906 [but 1909-1910]. 8° (228 x 148mm). 30 full-page watercolour drawings of shells, numbered in pencil 1-13, 15-23, 25-31 and one unnumbered at end, 38 letterpress leaves paginating:[2, title], [1-]6 (preface), [7-]24, [1, blank], 27-29, [1, blank], 25, 30-54, 55 (cancel page of text pasted onto cancelland), 56-69. (Perhaps lacking plates 14 and 24, one leaf pp.53-54 chipped and creased, light soiling throughout, the whole loose.) Disbound, retaining original stitching and original printed upper wrapper with title Examples of the Art of Theo: Johnson as shown in his principal works, dated 1909-1910, with central watercolour vignette of a shell with Latin name captioned in pencil (upper wrapper lightly soiled and unevenly faded).
UNRECORDED EXAMPLE OF ONE OF JOHNSON'S LAST WORKS. Radclyffe mentions that Johnson, in a letter to Messrs Sotheran in 1913, stated that 'under the simple title of "The Art of Theo. Johnson" I hope then to compile a selection of subjects from my principal works and let that be the last effort of my pen and pencil. I do not quite like the idea of leaving nothing behind me for those who may like something in the way of art by which to remember me.' This would appear to be part of that project, an example of which Radclyffe could find no copy, though he states: 'it would not completely surprise me if such a work should someday surface from oblivion' (p.190). The only copy of Johnson's 1906 publication The Shells of Mollusks that we can trace was sold by Sotheby's 29 June 1931, lot 356, bought for 2 shillings by Bernard Quaritch.
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