Lines Review - Macdonald, Callum - Bryden, Hugh
£525
Auction: 26 January 2011 at 11:00 GMT
Description
A collection of material from the estate of Callum Macdonald, to include Crichton, Moira The muse in Rose Street. Approx. 28 by 23cm, showing Sydney Goodsir Smith, Hugh Macdiarmid and Norman MacCaig, used on the cover of Lines Review issue 16, framed and glazed; Leonard, Tom & Sutherland, Euan Blessed Trinity. Approx. 27 by 36cm, number 33 of 34, presentation from Leonard to Macdonald, used as frontispiece to Lines Review issue 134, framed and glazed; Bryden, Hugh A group of four woodcuts by Hugh Bryden used for Lines Review, including Stars in her hair [issue 137, approx. 27 by 19cm, signed, number 18 of 50], Hard Road [issue 143, approx. 19 by 27cm, signed, number 29 of 50], Macdiarmid [issue 111, approx. 27 by 36cm, signed, rolled], Rain [approx. 29 by 21cm, signed, number 4 of 50]; Grant, Keith Flow. Approx. 20 by 14cm, used in Lines Review issue 111, framed and glazed; Stewart, Neil Orcadian cottage. Approx. 29 by 20cm, used for issue 116 of Lines Review, framed and glazed; Smith, Iain Crichton For Calum Macdonald. Approx. 20 by 15cm, signed by Smith, framed and glazed; Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun Award A framed copy of Callum Macdonald's award, presented in 1992, signed by David Roderick Cameron and Iain Noble; Macdonald, Callum Typed letter signed from Buckingham Palace, regarding his presentation of a book of poetry to the Queen in 1992, signed by Robin Janvrin; Lines Review Eight copies of the Lines Review, all relating to pieces listed above; and three other items including two poems in memory of Macdonald (qty)
Footnote
Provenance: From the estate of Callum Macdonald (1912-1999), Scottish literary publisher.
Macdonald returned to Edinburgh in 1947, after his service in the Royal Air Force, and opened a stationers in the city's Marchmont Road. For the next ten years he would revive Scottish poetry, printing and publishing works by Ian Crichton Smith and Sydney Goodsir Smith amongst others.
In 1953 Macdonald started the Lines Review, a poetry periodical that would continue until 1998. The Lines Review mainly covered modern Scottish poetry in English, Scots and Scottish Gaelic. In the early years the editorial advisory board included Hugh Macdiarmid, Norman MacCaig, Sorley Maclean, Denis Peploe and Sydney Goodsir Smith. The items on offer here come from the Lines Reviews' tenth editor, and Macdonald's second wife, Tessa Ransford.