Lot 107
Fothergill, George Algernon
The MSS of Symbol of Strife [a manuscript tribute to Robert Burns]
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 659
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
The MSS of Symbol of Strife - Robert Burns, & 11 other lyrics on the Scottish Bard... Cramond Bridge, 1927. Bound 8vo manuscript, comprising a 7 page introduction dated 7.2.27 and signed George A. Fothergill; followed by 10pp. comprising two workings of Fothergill's poem "Symbol of Strife - Robert Burns", dated January and February 1927; followed by 10 leaves containing further poems on the subject of Burns dating from between 1911 and 1927; followed by 18 typewritten pages containing Fothergill's poems; contemporary blue boards, manuscript label to upper cover, bookplate, a little light internal foxing, a little wear to spine and covers
Footnote
Note: The artist George Algernon Fothergill, 1868-1945, was clearly a great admirer of Robert Burns, who becomes the muse for this bound volume of manuscript and typewritten poetry. Curiously, much of the manuscript contents is written on the reverse side of Fothergill's engravings, Fothergill making a note to this effect on the contents page: "The prints, done from my pictures, which appear at the back of most of these pages have nothing to do with the verse - I was hard up for paper at the time I wrote all this so recklessly used the plates..."