Sales catalogue 597: Maggs Bros

Date:
1934
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/138
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 597: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    606 WESLEY (JOHN). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MR. JOS. BENSON, AT KINGSWOOD SCHOOL. 14 pp., 4to. London, 3rd December, 1769. £16 16s Reproving Benson for the manner in which he received a rebuke from Wesley; referring to Kingswood School, and mentioning Lady Huntingdon. In 1766 Wesley appointed Benson classical master of Kingswood School, in which the sons of itinerant preachers were the chief scholars. Four years later he was summoned by the Countess of Huntingdon to take the post of head-master in her recently established college at Trevecca, which was opened as a seminary for the training of her ministers. The Countess was Calvinistic and Benson was Armuinian, and so dissension soon arose, and Benson’s resignation ensued. 607 WESTALL (RICHARD, 1765-1836). Historical Painter. Contributed designs to the ‘‘ Shakespeare ”’ and ‘‘ Milton ’’ of John Boydell. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MRS. MACKLIN. I page, 4to. Upper Charlotte Street, 13th November, 1807. 12s 6d Written to Mrs. Macklin, the print-seller, to whom he had sold a number of prints but had not yet received payment for them. xg . I must beg that you will not any longer defer the payment of it, for you “must be aware that the very long credit which you always take deprives me of any profit from the sale of the prints.’’ Ete. 608 WHISTLER (JAMES McNEILL, 1834-1903). Famous Painter and Etcher. AN IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (BUTTER- FLY) TO THOMAS WAY. 24 pp., small oblong 8vo. N.D. With envelope. £10 10s Concerning the differences that had arisen between them over the printing of the lithographs, and in connection therewith, mentioning the ‘‘ Ruskin v. Whistler ’’ pamphlet and the ‘‘ Ten O’clock.’’ i. . About the difficulty. I do hope there will really be none. “Mr, Chatto was very nice when he spoke to me about the little hitch, and certainly there is no notion on their part in any way to offend. Their proceedings they say are the usual ones with their own printers who I think you will admit are not without standing (Messrs. Spottiswoode). Surely also it can make no difference whether you print year in and year out for Chatto and Windus or for the rest of the world. ‘‘ Your prices and profits for any work would not differ from the known tariff for the same kind of work, and the ‘ Ruskin and Whistler’ pamphlet was absolutely the same kind of work and quite as much care and fastidiousness was developed in its production as in our ‘ Ten O’clock.’ ‘* However, as Mr. Chatto says, he trusts that you will all understand each other, I certainly hope so.”? Kite.