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    • With Childhood Drawings by Jack Butler Yeats Yeats (Jack B.) ‘A Broth of a Boy’ [Michael Joseph
      Dec. 07, 2022

      With Childhood Drawings by Jack Butler Yeats Yeats (Jack B.) ‘A Broth of a Boy’ [Michael Joseph

      Est: €1,000 - €1,500

      With Childhood Drawings by Jack Butler Yeats Yeats (Jack B.) ‘A Broth of a Boy’ [Michael Joseph Barry]. The ‘‘Kishoge Papers’’, Tales of Devilry and Drollery. Dublin, Gill 1877. First edition. Sm 8vo pictorial boards, much used, inscribed in ink by Fredr. Pollexfen and Jack Yeats, and with characteristic sketches and drawings on a number of pages by the youthful Jack Yeats. In a recent folding cloth case. Fredr. H. Pollexfen, who signs twice on f.f.e.p., was evidently the original owner of this book. Directly under his signature is ‘J.B.Y.’, and opposite, on the glued endpaper, Jack Yeats has signed his full name twice in a childish hand. There are also eight or ten lines of ballad poetry in a pencilled hand, possibly Fred Pollexfen’s. The book itself is a collection of droll stories told in ballad verse. On the half-title is a pencilled drawing, ‘The Irish Bat’; on contents page a drawing of a reclining figure, possibly a tramp; at head of preface, ink signature ‘J. Yeats’; at head of page [1] ‘F.H. Pollexfen’; on p. 31 drawings of a mounted knight and a huntsman; top of p. 35 an ink drawing of a ship; top p. [63] ink drawing of shoe, foot and calf (only). At rear, the blank after p. 202 has drawings of a huntsman, a woman’s head, stars and a pitchfork; on rear e.p.’s caricatured drawings of two men, and a striking ink drawing of a couple dancing or skating – all evidently by the young Jack Yeats, aged perhaps eight or ten, who also signs his name on back of rear e.p. Frederick Henry Pollexfen was the ninth of the 12 Pollexfen children of Sligo, born 1852, eleven years after his sister Susan, who married John Butler Yeats. Her son Jack Yeats, born in 1871, spent most of his childhood in Sligo with his Pollexfen relations. Evidently, he acquired this book from his uncle Fred. There is nothing to suggest that Fred Pollexfen was an artist, and there is no doubt that the sketches in this book are by a youthful Jack Yeats. From his early childhood he drew compulsively, on any paper that came to hand, and even his earliest drawings – as here – often have an element of exaggeration or caricature which is very distinctive. In this he differs from his father, who drew exactly what he saw. One wonders if the Pollexfen household contained copies of Punch. A remarkable survival. Dating from probably the early 1880s, these childhood sketches may be the earliest by Jack Yeats that have been preserved. Jack Yeats’ early sketches (including those sold at Sothebys 2017) are unlike any other childhood drawings we have seen, showing that Jack’s humorous and quizzical view of life took shape very early.  (1)

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    • Watts (Isaac).- Butler (Joseph) The Analogy of Religion Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, first edition, Isaac Watts' annotated copy, 1736.
      Feb. 10, 2022

      Watts (Isaac).- Butler (Joseph) The Analogy of Religion Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, first edition, Isaac Watts' annotated copy, 1736.

      Est: £1,500 - £2,000

      Watts (Isaac).- Butler (Joseph) The Analogy of Religion Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, first edition, Isaac Watts' copy with his ink ownership inscription dated 1736 laid onto endpaper and marginal marks and annotations in Watts' hand throughout, half-title, very occasional light foxing, contemporary calf, neat and sympathetic early reback, rubbed,, light wear to extremities, 4to, John and Paul Knapton, 1736. ⁂ An important work of 18th century theology annotated by a prominent theologian and logician. Watts (1674-1748) prolific hymn writer, logician, theologian and astronomer. His annotations both celebrate and critique Butler's work and include mention of Locke whose theory of personal identity Butler famously critiques in the appendix. Provenance: Ink note to rear endpaper initialled "C.S." and dated March, 1766, states: "I bought this book from ?Paterson Auctiiers London at the sale of the Library of Nathanael Neil Esq. Son of the author of History of the Puritans. It belonged originally to Dr. Isaac Watts whose name is in his own handwriting & also notes in the margin, exemplifying his his directions in his book on the improvement of the mind".

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    • Joseph Bütler
      May. 15, 2011

      Joseph Bütler

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      Joseph Bütler (1822 Küssnach - 1885 Düsseldorf) Vogel-Stillleben Öl/Lwd.; R. u. sign. u. dat.... Taxe € 850,-

      Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden
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