Sala (George Augustus, journalist, 1828-95) The Miscellaneous Writings of the late George Augustus Sala... edited with notes by Joseph Charles Parkinson, comprising: 6 autograph pieces (including part of the original manuscript of the Hogarth papers edited by Thackeray for the Cornhill Magazine) by Sala; 3 autograph notes by Joseph Charles Parkinson (1833-1908), journalist; 7 autograph notes and letters by Edmund Yates (1831-94), journalist; 8 portrait photographs of Sala, all laid down on 7 album sheets, v.s., v.d., 1853-75. *** "Hogarth 2. 12", with note appended by Joseph Charles Parkinson, "The above is from the original MSS of the Hogarth papers published in Cornhill Magazine. - J.C.P."
Sala (George Augustus) The Seven Sons of Mammon: A Story, 3 vol., first edition, half-title to vol. 1 (all called for), lacking advertisements, bookplate of James B. Pond, margins very slightly toned, the odd spot or light finger-soiling, bound in green half morocco over marbled boards by J. Larkins, spines sunned, wear to corners, rubbed, mainly to spines and extremities, t.e.g., [Wolff 6130], Tinsley Brothers, 1862. *** Rare.
Sala (George Augustus, 1828-1895). Life and Adventures, 2 volumes, 1895..., and others Sala (George Augustus, 1828-1895). Life and Adventures, 2 volumes, London: Cassell & Company, 1895. Extra-illustrated and extended by A. M. Broadley [and retitled]: The Story of George Augustus Sala. His World, Ways, and Writings, as Related in his own Life and Adventures. Enlarged and Extra-Illustrated by the Addition and Insertion of Many Holograph Letters of the Author, his Friends and Contemporaries, Together with an Extensive Collection of Portraits, Views, Etc., 9 volumes, The Knapp, Bradpole, Dorsetshire, 1902, with approximately 300 mostly autograph letters signed by musicians and composers, writers and artists, actors and theatre professionals, royalty and politicians, etc., including Nicolo Paganini, Franz Liszt, Gaetano Donizetti, Daniel Auber, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Maria Malibran, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Robert Browning, Mark Twain (last page of a letter), Charles Lever, Charles Reade, Pierce Egan, Emile Zola (letter on a visiting card), Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas (Senior and Junior), Charles Kingsley, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, George Cruikshank, Robert Cruikshank, Charles Landseer, Walter Jerrold, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Mazzini, King William IV, Queen Adelaide, Napoleon III, Queen Isabella of Spain, Ismail Pasha, Pope Gregory XVI (signature only), John Franklin, Frederick Burnaby, P. T. Barnum, T. F. Bayard, Alexis Soyer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Lady Blessington, Madame Pleyel, Samuel Parr, Henry Mayhew, Fanny Kemble, Adelina Patti, Dion Boucicault, Lucia Vestris, William Maginn, Eugene Sue, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Gull, Antonio Panizzi, George Hudson, etc., and including approximately 36 Autograph Letters Signed and two Manuscripts from George Sala, (many to Macaulay), plus a few drawings and watercolours, numerous engraved and lithographic portraits and views, all tipped in or hinged with clear tape (now dried and browned but largely not affecting letter contents and autographs), the text heavily underscored for the purposes of identifying subjects to extra illustrate, the ninth volume being an enlarged, new manuscript index of names and places taking account of the autographs and illustrations and with an introduction by the compiler and indexer A. M. Broadley, the original printed index bound at end, bookplates of Broadley and W. A. Foyle, manuscript indexes of autograph material inserted at front of each volume (with a few discrepancies for items no longer present), top edges gilt, contemporary green half morocco gilt over boards, rubbed and some scuffing, spines and some corners darkened, 8vo (220 x 145 mm) QTY: (9) NOTE: Provenance: A. M. Broadley (bookplates); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplates). An extraordinary example of book grangerisation by the notable exponent, Alexander Meyrick Broadley (1847-1916), also known as Broadley Pasha. Broadley was a British barrister, author, company promoter and social figure. He is best known for being the defence lawyer for Ahmed 'Urabi after the failure of the 'Urabi Revolt. Following a colourful life he spent his last fifteen years devoted to writing and book collecting. He made significant acquisitions of manuscript material, accumulating original letters and documents, some of which he relates in his book Chats on Autographs. His library included 135 works he had grangerised by adding additional illustrations, which then amounted to about 600 volumes. While some of the autograph letters listed in the manuscript indexes at the front of each volume have since disappeared (notably Oscar Wilde and Hester Piozzi), the majority are still present and appear to have largely remained undisturbed in the Foyle Library for many decades. Among the more notable autographs present are: Daniel Auber (1782-1871), French composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire. Autograph Letter Signed, Auber, Monday 5 June, no year, to an unidentified person, telling him that he begins at the Conservatoire at 9:30am each day and wondering if the correspondent might come to meet him between 10am and 12 midday, 1 page, small 8vo Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), American showman, businessman and politician. Autograph Letter Signed, P. T. Barnum, Hotel Victoria, Northumberland Avenue, London, 8 March 1890, to Colonel Routledge, accepting a lunch invitation for himself and his wife the following day, 1 page on hotel letterhead, 8vo Robert Browning (1812-1889), English poet and playwright. Autograph Letter Signed, Robert Browning, 19 Warwick Crescent, [London], 12 November 1880, a brief note to Mrs Stanley saying he will be delighted to dine with her on the 20th, 1 page, 8vo Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859), British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Autograph Letter Signed, I. K. Brunel, Friday, no date, to an unidentified recipient, a brief note wondering if he might call to ask his opinion on something of no importance for two minutes, 2 pages with integral blank leaf, 16mo Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1809-1894), known by the pen name Mark Twain, American writer, humorist, essayist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Postscript from an Autograph Letter Signed, Twain, no date, c. 1872, to an unknown recipient, in full: P.S. Since penning the foregoing, the Atlantic has come to hand with that most thoroughly and entirely satisfactory notice of Roughing It [published 1872], in it; and I am as uplifted and reassured by it as a mother who has given birth to a white baby when she was awfully afraid it was going to be a mulatto. I have been afraid and shaky all along; but now, unless the N[ew] Y[ork] Tribune gives the book a black eye, I am all right. With many thanks, yours, Twain, ruled paper, 1 page, 8vo William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), English novelist and playwright. Autograph Letter Signed, Wilkie Collins, 90 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London, 10 March 1879, to H. Herman, with an apology, having acted in this matter in perfect good faith, under the impression that Mr Davenport was treating with me in your behalf , 1 page, 8vo Charles Dickens (1812-1870), English novelist and social critic. Autograph Letter Signed, Charles Dickens, Devonshire Terrace, 3 April 1857, to Manby [Charles Manby, 1804-84, Secretary to the Institution of Civil Engineers 1839-1856; sometime involved with the management of the Adelphi and Haymarket Theatres], in response to his enquiry and saying that [?]Jerdan had written to him mentioning names and asking if he would be a committee member, saying that he would, but that he thinks it should not be made a public matter, but research for the committee alone, 2 pages on rectos of a bifolium, 8vo Jefferson F. Davis (1808-1889), American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865. Autograph Letter Signed, Jefferson Davis, London, 31 July 1876, to the Right Reverend W[illiam] M[ercer] Green, Bishop of Mississippi, a lengthy apology by way of explanation that he had been delayed in Liverpool and so unable to get to London for a meeting under the care of the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, which was to cover the subject of university education in the ten southern dioceses of the United States, subscription and autograph presumably cut from second blank leaf and pasted at foot of second page, 2 pages, 8vo Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), Italian composer. Autograph Letter Signed, Donizetti, no place, no date, to his friend the Italian composer [Antonio] Dolci [[1798-1869], in Italian, wondering what he should do, whether to come or not and asking what Dolci thinks of the performance, 1 page, addressed to verso, 8vo John Franklin (1786-1847), British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. Autograph Letter Signed, John Franklin, 55 Devonshire Street, Saturday night, no date, c. 1830s, to Joseph Kay, saying that he and his wife are very keen to get his advice and assistance as to letting their house, 3 pages with integral address panel, 16mo Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian general, patriot, revolutionary and republican. Autograph Note Signed, G. Garibaldi, Milazza, 21 July 1860, referring to a newspaper that his friend Dumas wants to establish in Palermo, which will be called The Independent, which Dumas deserves all the more since he will want to start by not sparing him should he ever stray from his duty as a child of the people, and his humanitarian principles, two small marginal tape repairs away from text and signature, 1 page with integral blank leaf, 8vo Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French Romantic writer and politician. Autograph Letter Signed, Victor Hugo, Hauteville House, 4 January 1866, to his editor, asking him to give a copy of [Les] Miserables (an illustrated copy of a popular edition) to a teacher, I. B. Bocquet, for the library for French refugees in London, 1 page with integral blank leaf, 8vo Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), English biologist and anthropologist. Autograph Letter Signed, T. H. Huxley, 26 Abbey Place, St Johns Wood, 11 June 1861, to [William] Sharpey, sending Carpenters claims for approval or not, saying that he is in despair of Agassiz, having just discovered that in moving, my rough notes about his claims have been displaced are hidden God knows where, among my books, 3 pages, 8vo Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor. Autograph Letter Signed, F. Liszt, Weimar, 13 February 1856, to Rey [Alexandre Rey, 1812-1904, journalist and politician], telling him that his first Vienna concert is fixed for 1 March and that for the whole of March he will remain in Vienna and to send his reply to the Hotel de Londres, 1 page, 8vo Maria Felicia Malibran (1808-1836), Spanish opera singer. Autograph Letter Signed, M. F. Malibran, Friday 10 April, no year (paper watermarked 1828), to Lady Flint, in French, 2 pages with integral address leaf, 4to Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), German opera composer. Autograph Letter Signed, G. Meyerbeer, no place, no date, Freitag, to a friend in German concerning Robert le Diable [opera by Meyerbeer composed and first performed 1831], blind-stamped personal letterhead, 1 page with integral blank leaf, 8vo William Morris 1834-1896), British textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist. Autograph Letter Signed, William Morris, Red House, Upton, Kent, 30 July 1861, [?to George Rae of Birkenhead], Some time since you wished to purchase my drawing of Paolo & Francesca [da Rimini, 1855] by Mr. [Dante Gabriel] Rossetti; the drawing is for sale now if you still wish to have it; the price will be 50 guineas, 2 pages with integral blank leaf, 8vo Nicolò Paganini (1782-1840), Italian violinist and composer. Autograph Letter Signed, Nicolò Paganini, London, 7 June 1831, to Mr C. B. Smith, in Italian, offering his autograph gladly and which he is honoured to do and referring to the flattering hospitality he has received in England, adhesion remains to inner margins, 1 page, oblong 8vo, with integral autograph cover (partly cut down and hinged with tape along margin, postmarked 9 June 1831 Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1892), English poet, illustrator, painter, translator. Autograph Letter Signed with initials, D.G.R., Friday, no date, to Haydon, saying that he will be glad to see him on Sunday if you can eat a grouse with me, and saying that he will be alone, 1 page, 8vo Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852). Autograph Letter Signed in the third person, 16 March 1840, declining the request to present the correspondent, John Barley, to the Queen, as he does not know him 3 pages, 8vo, together with postally used envelope loosely inserted William IV (1765-1837), King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1830-1837. Autograph Letter Signed, William P., Horse Guards, Thursday Afternoon, 1812, to Sir Willoughby Gordon, a brief note asking Gordon to call him the next morning between 10 and 11am, 1 page, 4to Émile Zola (1840-1902), French novelist, journalist, playwright. Autograph Note on a visiting card, Emile Zola, Medan, c. 1890s, to a friend, saying that Georges Petilleau, professor of French in London and a member of their society of men of letters, who offers him an invitation and asking him to reply to Lucius Wolff if he accepts, and concluding that their week in Medan has been very peaceful and happy, 2 pages, 55 x 95 mm
Samuel Henry Gordon Alken (1810-1894) and George Augustus Sala (1828-1895). "The Funeral Procession of Arthur Duke of Wellington" - a hand colored aquatint panorama, March 1, 1853. London: Ackermann & Co., 1853. When the Duke of Wellington died in September 1852, at age 83, crowds gathered to witness his state funeral and Wellington was laid to rest in St Paul's Cathedral, next to another hero of the Napoleonic Wars, Horatio, Viscount Nelson. The formal funeral procession was vividly captured in a continuous folding print. Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, had a successful military and political career that included commanding British forces and their allies in the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo which closed the Napoleonic Wars as well as two terms as Prime Minister of the UK. His funeral procession was watched by over a million people. Size (panorama in case): 6" L x 15" W (15.2 cm x 38.1 cm) Measures over 65 feet in length when laid out. The following is an informative account from G.A. Sala, one of the artists of The Funeral Procession of Arthur Duke of Wellington, from his "The life and adventures of George Augustus Sala" (London, 1895): "The great Duke of Wellington died on September the 14th, in that year (1852); and immediately after his decease, Messrs. Ackermann gave me a commission to execute a work far more important than any I had hitherto produced for them. It was to etch on a series of large steel plates a panoramic view of the funeral procession of the great Duke. The many thousands of figures in the cortege were first etched on the plates and subsequently aquatinted. The figures and carriages fell to my share; the horsesof which there were many hundredswere engraved by Henry Alken, a well-known animal painter, and the son of an even better-known artist in the same branch of art, old Harry Alken; and at these plates we worked unremittingly for many weeks. Plenty of materials had been supplied to us by the authorities of the Horse Guards for the uniforms of the troops which were to take part in the ceremony; and equal courtesy in this respect was shown to us both by the Corporation of the City of London and by the Dean of St. Paul's. I saw the pageant itself, which took place on the 18th November, 1852, from three different points of view. Sir Richard Mayne, the Chief Commissioner of Police, had, in the first instance, granted me a pass 'between the lines,' so that I was enabled to walk inside the serried ranks of military and police, who were keeping the grounds from Hyde Park Corner to Fleet Street; there my pass enabled me to slip through the lines and reach a certain house, a stationer's shop on the south side, on the first floor of which some friends of mine had secured seats. The procession, I may say, occupied many hours in passing; and when the military part of the pageant had come to an end, I made my way out of the house in Fleet Street, passed between the lines again, and trudged up Ludgate Hill into St. Paul's, and into the metropolitan basilica itself. The funeral service was conducted by the Dean, Henry Hart Milman. Of that circumstance I have ample warranty, since I find a note of my own on the title-page of Dr. Milman's 'Annals of St. Pauls Cathedral,' which I bought in 1869, as follows: 'I remember to have seen him at the funeral of the great Duke of Wellington at St. Paul's in 1852a wonderfully ancient-looking, bowed-down man, creeping up the nave at the head of the procession.' We had finished aquatinting the plates about Christmas; when, utterly worn out with hard work, I took a trip to Paris. I was suffering from something else, more serious than fatigue. The fumes of the acids used in biting-in the plates, and the glare of the bright metal itself, when the varnish was removed, had played, as I feared, almost irreparable havoc with my only valid optic; and, for the second time in my life, I was within measurable distance of blindness. Happily, this affliction was spared me, and my sight grew strong enough to cover, during the next thirty years or so, very many thousands of pages with a small and more or less legible handwriting. I never, however, touched an etching needle or graver again; although, I believe that my kind people at home still keep, in a case specially made for the purpose, all the engraver's tools and chattels which I used." (Source: University of Cambridge Digital Library) See listing for "The Funeral Procession of Arthur Provenance: Private West Hollywood, California, USA collection All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #179179
"The Greatest Guy Seen Since 1688" from series Papa's Album, Cartoons for the Vatican, 19th c. hand colored lithograph, GAS monogram lower left, plate #3, depicting Lord John Russell holding a letter to the Bishop of Durham and piling up a bonfire topped by an effigy of the Pope, in a gilded wooden faux bamboo style frame with peach colored mat, OS: 16 1/4" x 19 1/2". Frame gilding losses, print not examined outside of frame.
SALA, George Augustus (1828-1895). Procession to the Christening of the Prince of Wales. [London, 1841.] Unique, hand-drawn panorama over nine feet in length: a comic procession marking the birth of the future King Edward VII. This is a charming item of juvenile cariacature by the prominent Victorian illustrator, G.A. Sala (aka \G.A.S.\), an acolyte of Charles Dickens who went on to become a founding member of the Savage Club. The panorama depicts over 70 figures beginning with three musicians, the \Boy Jones\ (headed \private secretary to her Majesty,\ but actually a teenager who kept breaking into Buckingham Palace), the wet nurse, the dry nurse, Lords Admiralty, pages, etc., the royal family, the \illustrious infant\ in the arms of the Duchess of Buccleuch, and concluding with Grandmamma, her train-bearer, and both last and least: \The Gruel Bearer.\ It's an ambitious and rich work from the pen of the teenage Sala, who had recently returned from a year in Paris and was soon to begin his apprenticeship in art. Sala was succesful, becoming a household name for his comic illustrations, but he was profligate and often in debt. In middle age, he gifted this panorama to his steady employer, Sir Edward Lawson, first Baron Burnham, who was editor of the fledgling Daily Telegraph. The inscription is on the verso of the first panel and reads: \This burlesque 'Procession to the Christening of the Prince of Wales' must have been drawn by me about Six and Thirty years ago, when I was a small boy. | George Augustus Sala | gave it to | Edward L. Lawson | June 19, 1877 | Some of these days it may be accounted a curiosity and fetch something at Christie's." (Time will tell.) Manuscript panorama, pen and ink and watercolor on 27 joined panels of about 105mm length each, overall size 84 x 2875mm, backed with linen (light soiling and wear, folds rubbed with some ink loss, small tear at front panel affecting caption); tipped into a red morocco gilt folder. Provenance: Edward Levy Lawson (1833-1916; presentation inscription from the artist dated 19 June 1877). Please note this lot is the property of a private individual.
Crystal Palace.- Sala (George Augustus) The Great Exhibition "Wot is to Be", satirical sketches of fictional exhibits at the Great Exhibition of 1851, panorama of 23 panels of lithographs joined and folding concertina-style, each individual panel approx. 132 x 240 mm. (5 1/8 x 9 1/2 in), some minor splitting, spotting and surface dirt throughout, illustrated title pasted to upper cover, with toning to title and lower sheet, extremities rubbed and scuffed, oblong 4to, Published by the Committee of the Society for Keeping Things in Their Places, 1850.
Crystal Palace.- Sala (George Augustus) The Great Exhibition "Wot is to Be", satirical sketches of fictional exhibits at the Great Exhibition of 1851, panorama of 23 panels of lithographs joined and folding concertina-style, each individual panel approx. 132 x 240 mm. (5 1/8 x 9 1/2 in), some minor splitting, spotting and surface dirt throughout, illustrated title pasted to upper cover, with toning to title and lower sheet, extremities rubbed and scuffed, oblong 4to, Published by the Committee of the Society for Keeping Things in Their Places, 1850.
George Augustus Sala ALS dated 25/7/1865. (November 1828 1895) was an author and journalist who wrote extensively for the Illustrated London News as G. A. S. and was most famous for his articles and leaders for The Daily Telegraph. He founded his own periodical, Sala's Journal, and the Savage Club. The former was unsuccessful, but the latter still continues. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
CUSSANS, John E. (1837-99). Handbook of Heraldry. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1882). Provenance: George Augustus Sala (182895) (signature and Ms. inscription in greek, dated 1882). With 9 other books of related interest, including some bibliography. Provenance: From the Heraldry Collection of the late Stephen Kibbey (1954-2015). (10)
Sala, George Augustus A journey due north being notes of a residence in Russia in the summer of 1856. London, 1859, second edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed at edges; Ibid Breakfast in bed. London, 1864, 8vo, contemporary half calf gilt, black label, some rubbing to edges; Ibid My diary in America in the midst of war. London, 1865, second edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, later half morocco gilt by Hatchards, t.e.g., backstrips faded; Ibid A trip to Barbary by a roundabout route. London, 1866, 8vo, later half morocco gilt by Hatchards, t.e.g., a clean copy; Ibid Paris herself again in 1878-9. London, 1879, 8vo, 2 volumes, illustrated, later half morocco gilt by Hatchards, ink stamp on titles, some foxing; Ibid America revisited. London, 1882, 8vo, 2 volumes, illustrated, later half morocco gilt by Hatchards, foxing; Ibid The life and adventures of... London, 1895, 8vo, 2 volumes in 4, extra illustrated, later full red morocco gilt extra by H. Wood, hinges rubbed, bookplate (13)
