Lot 131

[Bloomsbury Group] Rylands, Dadie (1902-1996)

Collection of offprints and pamphlets from his library

Estimate: £300 - £500

Books & Manuscripts

Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST

Description

all inscribed by the author to Dadie Rylands or with autograph letter signed from the author, 8vo, original wrappers where issued, titles comprise:
C. R. Fay, Burke and Adam Smith, being a Lecture delivered at The Queen's University of Belfast, 1956;
Joan Bennett, “How It Strikes a Contemporary”: The Impact of I. A. Richards' Literary Criticism in Cambridge, England, 1973;
Idem, An Aspect of the Evolution of Seventeenth-Century Prose, 1941;
Roy Morrell, Thomas Hardy's Poetry Today, 1984;
Idem, Hardy, Darwin and Nature, 1986 (with letter from the author);
R. F. Harrod, Clive Bell on Keynes, 1957;
Tony Tanner, Notes for a Comparison between American and European Romanticism, 1971;
Idem, Problems and Roles of the American Artist as Portrayed by the American Novelist, 1971 (additionally with Rylands's ownership inscription ‘Georg Rylands’);
Michael Jaffé, The Relationship between the Universities and the Art Museums, 1967;
William F. Hall, The Continuing Relevance of Henry James' “The American Scene”, 1971;
Philip Collins, The Impress of the Moving Age, 1965 (additionally with Rylands's King's College bookplate);
C. M. J. MacCabe, Towards a Modern Trivium - English Studies Today, 1982 (inscribed and with letter from the author);
Peter Marsh Stanford, The Work of Sir Julian Corbett in the Dreadnought Era, 1951;
Christopher Morris, Annual Luncheon, 1992 [in ‘The Kipling Journal'] (with letter from the author).
Together with: Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, Rylands, with an Introduction (and Somewhat Besides). Hackney: Stourton Press, 1988 (one of 200 copies, original cloth, autograph letter signed from Dadie Rylands laid in); 3 additional pamphlets with Rylands' ownership inscription but no inscriptions from the authors (King's College Cambridge, John Harold Clapham … A Memoir, 1949; W. J. H. Sprott, Philosophy and Common Sense, 1948); G. M. Young, The Age of Tennyson, 1939); Basil Willey, Henry Stanley Bennett 1889-1972, 1972 (inscribed ‘to Dadie from Joan’); and an incomplete offprint with compliments slip inscribed to Rylands (20)