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I LLUST{AT IONS Christmas card, 1940, sent from Munby at Oflag VII C to Lewis . . . . 10 Captain A. N. L. Munby, 1st Battalion Queen Victoria‘s Rifles . . . . 16 Letter from Munby to Lewis, 26 October 1941 (detail) . . . . . . 19 Relief etching with pochoir from Les Robes de Paul Poiret . . . . . . 22 Grasset. Gillotage, Musique de scène pour le drame Cléopâtre… . . . . . 26 Alphonse Mucha. Lithograph poster, Gismonda . . . . . . . . 26 Alexis Chataignier. Engraving, Ah! Quelle antiquité!!! . . . . . . 31 François Depeuille. Etching, Bains Vigier. Les bains à la mode . . . . . 31 Guillaumot, after Lacoste. Etching, Mlle. de Contades . . . . . . 36 Janet, after Lacoste. Engraving, Quelques types des merveilleuses . . . . 36 The Merveilleuses, photo postcard, London, 1906 . . . . . . . 39 Mlle. Méaly as Lodoïska in Les Merveilleuses . . . . . . . . . 39 Dammy. Colour pochoir, La Fleur Merveilleuse. Robe du soir de Doucet . . . 45 Composite of the multispectral images of the Mishnah manuscript . . . . 48 ’At last the lock yielded, and the casket stood open between us.‘ . . . . 54 ’It is safe, she called…‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 ’Ayesha turned towards it…‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 ’The hand grasped the curtain, and drew it aside.‘ . . . . . . . 63 ’Next second her tall and willowy form was staggering back…‘ . . . . 63 Title page of the first edition of Frankenstein, 1818 . . . . . . . 66 The Rattle & Brine cover of Frankenstein . . . . . . . . . 70 Annotation on Frankenstein, p. 85 . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Annotation on Frankenstein, p. 156 . . . . . . . . . . 78 Les Avantures de Télémaque, edition Delaulne and Estienne, 1717, title page . . 83 Les Avantures de Télémaque, edition Hofhout and Wetstein, 1719, title page . . 84 William Beckford, lithograph after Piat Sauvage, 1797 . . . . . . 92 The Story of Al Raoui, A Tale from the Arabic, title page of the first edition, 1799 99 Attributed Portrait of Samuel Henley . . . . . . . . . . 99 Monument Erected to the Memory of William Collins . . . . . . 106 Trawl, 1966, here Panther 1968 . . . . . . . . . . 110 Christie Malry’s Own Double Entry, Collins, 1973 . . . . . . 115 Oxford Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Leo Cadogan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Cardinal Melchior de Polignac, L’anti-Lucrèce… vol. 1 . . . . . 130 Cardinal Melchior de Polignac, L’anti-Lucrèce… vol. 2 . . . . . 133 Susan Theobald, incorporating the cat by Edward Bawden . . . . 146 Bernard Breslauer at the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1992 . . . . . 171 The Book Collector is set in Monotype Bembo Book 11. 5pt over 13. 5pt , caps in Monotype Gill Sans Nova. Printed on Lessebo Design Smooth Ivor y 115gsm
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volume 73 no 1 spring 2024 From Oflag VII C to King‘s College, Cambridge: The Correspondence of A. N. L. Munby and W. S. Lewis Stephen Clarke . . . . 11 The Marvellous Monsieur Sardou, Part 3 Victoria Dailey . . . 23 Spectro Gasp Bła ej Mikuła . . . . . . . . . 49 Edward Killingworth Johnson‘s Illustrations for Rider Haggard‘s ’She‘ in The Graphic Simon Cooke . . . . . . . . 55 Marginalia in Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein Anthony Tedeschi . . . 67 Paratexts in Fénelon‘s Télémaque: The 1719 Edition by Hofhout and Wetstein Frans A. Janssen . . . . . . . . . 81 William Beckford‘s Poetry: with Notes and Observations about Misattributions Robert J. Gemmett . . . . . . . . 93 B. S. Johnson: The Novelist Who Wasn‘t Philip Gooden . . . 111 Lost Friends, Part 8 Brian Alderson . . . . . . . . 119 Leo Cadogan, The Markham Interviews (New Series) 31 Sheila Markham . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Two Mosaic Bindings Made in Paris for Maria Leczinska, c.1750: English and Foreign Bookbindings, 153 Mirjam M. Foot . . . 131 news & comment 134 ● sales & catalogues 153 ● book reviews 172 ● notes on contributors 184 ● notes for contributors 184 ● in the next issue 186 ● list of advertisers 192 Editor : James Fleming. Deputy Editor: Victoria Dailey. Editorial Advisors : Michael Caines, Tom Fleming, Jeremy Knight , Sandy Malcolm. Design : Prof. Phil Cleaver. Marketing : Silke Lohmann. Website : Sarah Bennett. Proofs : Joelle Young. Subscriptions and Advertising : Emma Brown, PO Box 1163, St Albans, a l1 9w s (07530 047470) emma@thebookcollector.co.uk ● the book collector is published by The Collector Ltd, The Mead, Turkdean, Cheltenham, Glos gl54 3ny ● issn 0006–7237 www.thebookcollector.co.uk /subscriptions All correspondence and pitches for articles to editor@thebookcollector.co.uk see also ‘Notes for Contributors’

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I LLUST{AT IONS Christmas card, 1940, sent from Munby at Oflag VII C to Lewis . . . . 10 Captain A. N. L. Munby, 1st Battalion Queen Victoria‘s Rifles . . . . 16 Letter from Munby to Lewis, 26 October 1941 (detail) . . . . . . 19 Relief etching with pochoir from Les Robes de Paul Poiret . . . . . . 22 Grasset. Gillotage, Musique de scène pour le drame Cléopâtre… . . . . . 26 Alphonse Mucha. Lithograph poster, Gismonda . . . . . . . . 26 Alexis Chataignier. Engraving, Ah! Quelle antiquité!!! . . . . . . 31 François Depeuille. Etching, Bains Vigier. Les bains à la mode . . . . . 31 Guillaumot, after Lacoste. Etching, Mlle. de Contades . . . . . . 36 Janet, after Lacoste. Engraving, Quelques types des merveilleuses . . . . 36 The Merveilleuses, photo postcard, London, 1906 . . . . . . . 39 Mlle. Méaly as Lodoïska in Les Merveilleuses . . . . . . . . . 39 Dammy. Colour pochoir, La Fleur Merveilleuse. Robe du soir de Doucet . . . 45 Composite of the multispectral images of the Mishnah manuscript . . . . 48 ’At last the lock yielded, and the casket stood open between us.‘ . . . . 54 ’It is safe, she called…‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 ’Ayesha turned towards it…‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 ’The hand grasped the curtain, and drew it aside.‘ . . . . . . . 63 ’Next second her tall and willowy form was staggering back…‘ . . . . 63 Title page of the first edition of Frankenstein, 1818 . . . . . . . 66 The Rattle & Brine cover of Frankenstein . . . . . . . . . 70 Annotation on Frankenstein, p. 85 . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Annotation on Frankenstein, p. 156 . . . . . . . . . . 78 Les Avantures de Télémaque, edition Delaulne and Estienne, 1717, title page . . 83 Les Avantures de Télémaque, edition Hofhout and Wetstein, 1719, title page . . 84 William Beckford, lithograph after Piat Sauvage, 1797 . . . . . . 92 The Story of Al Raoui, A Tale from the Arabic, title page of the first edition, 1799 99 Attributed Portrait of Samuel Henley . . . . . . . . . . 99 Monument Erected to the Memory of William Collins . . . . . . 106 Trawl, 1966, here Panther 1968 . . . . . . . . . . 110 Christie Malry’s Own Double Entry, Collins, 1973 . . . . . . 115 Oxford Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Leo Cadogan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Cardinal Melchior de Polignac, L’anti-Lucrèce… vol. 1 . . . . . 130 Cardinal Melchior de Polignac, L’anti-Lucrèce… vol. 2 . . . . . 133 Susan Theobald, incorporating the cat by Edward Bawden . . . . 146 Bernard Breslauer at the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1992 . . . . . 171

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