Showing 2542 results

Vol. I. Paperback.

'Edited, and the pianoforte accompaniment revised from that of the German Handel Society, by Ebenezer Prout; the English translation and adaptation by the Rev. J. Troutbeck'. Novello's original octavo edition. Hardbound. Contains pencil annotations by Samuel Butler.

'Edited, and the pianoforte accompaniment revised from that of the German Handel Society, by Ebenezer Prout'. Novello's original octavo edition. Hardbound. Contains brief pencil annotations by Samuel Butler.

Handwritten copy, made by Edward Clodd in November 1905 [see item VIII/1/3c/5 for the note with which this copy was enclosed]. Butler thanks him for sending his friend's notes on 'Life and Habit'.

Page extracted from the Spectator, featuring Samuel Butler's poem 'A Psalm of Montreal'; with two further printed copies of the poem, one from the Secular Review.

Linen-backed folding map (scale 1:300,000; colour; measures 45 cm x 50 cm). Labelled on verso in Alfred Cathie's hand.

Typescript of 'Marriage: a little tale' by T.C. Gotch and 'Marriage: another little tale' by Henry Festing Jones. A handwritten prefatory note by Henry Festing Jones reads: 'Thomas Cooker Gotch, an art-student whom Butler & I used to meet at Heatherley's, wrote the first of these little tales & I wrote the second. They appeared in The Examiner 7 June 1879. Butler was at that time publishing A Clergyman's Doubts & God the Known & God the Unknown in that periodical & had brought influence with the Editor D'Avigdor to induce him to insert our productions.'

On verso is a sketch by Henry Marriott Paget, done during Paget's time in Italy (during his wedding tour), when he joined Samuel Butler and Henry Festing Jones.

Pen and ink on paper (13.5 x 7 cm). Artist not known.

Featuring 'A Clergyman's Doubts' [no. 1], signed 'An Earnest Clergyman'. Annotated by Samuel Butler and A.T. Bartholomew.