Search Results: Authors starting with T from Julian Browning Rare Books & Manuscripts

Dublin Castle, 25 November 1817. 1 page 12 x 8 inches, integral blank docketed on receipt. Charles Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot (1777 – 1849) served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1817 and 1821.

Head Quarter House [Egypt], 7 February 1899. In French. 1 page 8 x 6½ inches, folds, in good condition. Uncommon. Major General Hon. Sir Reginald Arthur James Talbot (1841 - 1929) had both a distinguished political and military career. He served in the Zulu War (1879), with the Life Guards; in the Egyptian Campaign (1882); and in the Nile Expedition (1884 - 5), where he was mentioned in dispatches. Later he was Military Attache in Paris (1889 - 95); in command of the Calvary Brigade at Aldershot (1896 - 99); and commanded the army of occupation in Egypt (1899 - 1903). His final tour of duty was as Governor of Victoria, Australia (1904 - 08).

Bank House, 18 December 1830. 2 pp. 4to, integral address leaf. Felton postmark. James Tate (1771-1843), author and master of Richmond school. Sydney Smith, travelling in the same coach as Tate, declared to a friend he had fallen in with ‘a man dripping with Greek’.

42 Pall Mall, 25 July 1846. 4 x 8 inches, dust soiled, central filing hole. George Tattersall (pseud. "Wildrake") (1817 – 1849) was a well-known sporting artist and architect, a member of the family which operated the Tattersall's horse market. In 1836 he compiled a guide to The Lakes of England illustrated with forty-three charming line drawings, and he showed skill as an architect by building the Tattersall stud stables at Willesden. His experience in this and similar undertakings led him to publish Sporting Architecture (1841). In the same year, under the pseudonym "Wildrake," he published Cracks of the Day, describing and illustrating sixty-five racehorses. He also contributed illustrations to the Hunting Reminiscences of Nimrod (Charles J. Apperley), the Book of Sports (1843), and the New Sporting Almanack.

undated. 2 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, fine. “I have been to all the Nathan & Symons’s Masquerade Shops to no purpose.” Frederick Tayler (1802-1889), artist, studied under Vernet, and for a time shared a studio with Bonington. He painted mainly in watercolour. Richard Redgrave (1804-1888) was also a member of The Etching Club.

At Col. Hildgard’s, Manor House, Stokesley, Yorkshire, 9 August 1843. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, light toning. John Frederick Tayler (1802-1889), artist, studied under Vernet, and for a time shared a studio with Bonington. It was as a painter of ‘elegant’ sporting and pastoral scenes in watercolour that he achieved the popularity which was maintained throughout his long career. His sporting subjects were of two classes, some dealing with the costumes and accessories of eighteenth-century stag-hunts, others with incidents of contemporary sport in the highlands of Scotland. Akin to these were his illustrative drawings of costume and scenery, many of them suggested by incidents in the ‘Waverley Novels.’ He became president of the Royal Watercolour Society.

3 Cambridge Place, Regent’s Park, 13 March 1839. 1 page 8 x 5 inches, with the integral address leaf, black wax seal. Uncommon. Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806-1880), English toxicologist and medical writer, who has been called the "father of British forensic medicine". He appeared as expert witness in several widely reported poisoning cases. He was also an early experimenter in photography and developed the use of hyposulphate of lime as a fixing agent for photographs.

Undated. 2 pp. 8 x 5 inches, small blank piece missing at the central fold, otherwise good. Edgar Taylor (1793-1839), legal writer, translator and biographer. He was an original member of the ‘Non Con Club’, founded in July 1817. His anonymous translations included an edition of Grimm’s Tales under the title German Popular Stories.

St. James’s, 7 March 1831. 1 page 9 x 7 inches, in good condition. General Sir Herbert Taylor (1775-1839), Private Secretary to George III from 1805, later Private Secretary to William IV, and confidential agent to George IV.

York, July to September 1888. 4 letters, 5 pp., 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, light toning. Canon Isaac Taylor (1829-1901), philologist, “the Darwin of philology”, author of The Alphabet (2 vols., 1883) and Etruscan Researches (1874).

The Roost, Bournemouth, 28 May 1885. 3 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, remains of guard. With separate wood engraved portrait of Taylor. Sir Henry Taylor (1800-86), poet.

The Uplands, 24 October 1865. 3 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, fine. Sir Henry Taylor (1800-86), poet.

Undated. Two stanzas of 6 lines on 1 page 9 x 7 inches, traces of mounting along edges on verso. Sir Henry Taylor (1800-86), poet. An experiment in romantic comedy, The Virgin Widow, afterwards entitled A Sicilian Summer, was published in 1850. "The pleasantest play I had written," said the author; "and I never could tell why people would not be pleased with it."

March, undated. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. “I hope the effects of the Lehmans’ glass door have passed away.” Tom Taylor (1817-80), critic, dramatist and editor of Punch. In 1845 Taylor was Professor of English Literature and Language at London University. In 1846 he was called to the Bar. Sir Henry Thompson, Bart., Professor of Surgery at University College, London, was known for his dinner parties at his house 35 Wimpole Street, called “Octaves”, at which eight courses, accompanied by eight wines, were served at eight o'clock to eight guests in addition to the host and the guest of honour.

Whjte Lodge, Richmond Park, 19 April 1891. 2 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition, with the original franked envelope. Alexander George of Teck, Earl of Athlone (14 April 1874-1957). He was Governor-General of the Union of South Africa (1923-1931) and Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada (1940-46). When Prince Alexander was nine years old, his parents for two years fled the United Kingdom for continental Europe to escape their high debts; but the Prince remained at Eton College before moving on to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

White Lodge, Richmond Park, 16 January 1887. 3 pp. 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition, centre fold tear neatly repaired. Francis, Duke of Teck (1837–1900), husband of Mary Adelaide, and father of the future Queen Mary.

Villa Nevada, Cannes, 24 February 1904. 3½ pages 7 x 4½ inches, folds, one small stain, otherwise very good. Major-General Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (born Prince Alexander of Teck; 1874-1957). Prince Alexander of Teck was the fourth child and third son of Prince Francis, Duke of Teck, and Princess Mary, Duchess of Teck. Although his mother was a granddaughter of King George III and cousin to Queen Victoria, Athlone, as the son of a prince of Teck, in Württemberg, was styled from birth as His Serene Highness and held the title Prince Alexander of Teck. He served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, the country's fourth, and as Governor General of Canada, the 16th since that country's confederation.

Durham House, Langford Place, St John’s Wood, undated. A good one page example, 7 x 4½ inches. Dame Marie Tempest (1864-1942), singer and actress.

1862, 1864 & 1867. 3 letters, 10 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. “You were right in hesitating to send him a chemical chest yet.” Frederick Temple (1821 – 1902), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1896.

Board of Trade, London, 22 February 1864. 4 pp. 9 x 7 inches, one small tear repaired, in good condition, remains of tape along one edge on final page where formerly mounted. Sir James Emerson Tennent (1804-1869), politician and traveller, author of Ceylon, Physical, Historical and Topographical (2 vols., 1859).