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(Literary Portraits)
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3,500 - 5,000 USD
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British and Irish Authors. Group of 12 inscriptions signed, each inscribed below a pen-and-ink portrait of the author by Robert Kastor (signed "R. Kastor"), each approx. 11 x 9 in.; 278 x 228 mm), n.p., v.d.; condition generally good. Each, matted, glazed and framed (not examined out of frame).
Catalogue Note
The group includes: J. W. Barrie. "Let us all try to be a little kinder than is necessary" — Arnold Bennett. "It is a wise man that knows himself. I don't" — Laurence Binyan. 8-line inscription — Thomas Burke. "The greater the artist the more ordinary the man" — G. K. Chesterton. "If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly" — Philip Gibbs. "The face of everyone that passes by me is a mystery" — Henry Arthur Jones. Quotation from "Shakespeare and Germany," "written April 1916, during the battle of Verdun" — E. V. Lucas. "Few wome, & fewer men, have enough character to be idle. March 20 1935" — E. Phillips Oppenheim. "Our limitations are life's lesson to us. If tomorrow is hidden, so much the more reason that we should live today" — Max Pemberton. "Poets are all who love—who feel great troubles, and tell them" — George Russell ("Æ"). 12-line poem — Frank Swinnerton. "To understand all is to pardon—nearly all."