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WHITE (GILBERT), SELBORNE AND THE HOLT-WHITE FAMILY
An archive of books, watercolour and scrap albums, photographs, portrait miniatures, silver and other ephemera relating to the White, and Holt-White families, etc. (collection)

23 March 2022, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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WHITE (GILBERT), SELBORNE AND THE HOLT-WHITE FAMILY

An archive of books, watercolour and scrap albums, photographs, portrait miniatures, silver and other ephemera relating to the White, and Holt-White families, including:

HOLT-WHITE (RASHLEIGH) The Life and Letters of Gilbert White of Selborne, 2 vol., AUTHOR'S COPY, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with c.55 additional plates (of which approx. 20 photographic, including images of the Selborne Great Oak, the house, etc.), several autograph letters by later family members, and manuscript receipts of eighteenth century, green half morocco gilt, by F.T. Neale of Hastings, John Murray, 1901

Silver tray, with the arms of Rebecca White (nee Luckin, 1664-1755) who married the vicar of Selborne in 1687, together the grandparents of Gilbert White (1720-1793), diameter 256mm., hallmarked John Robinson, 1746

Album, with artwork attributable to Mary (b.1809), Caroline (b.1811) and Anna Holt-White (b.1813) and other family members, approx. 42 pencil drawings, 18 watercolours (botanical, costume, portraits), of which many signed with initials, 1 gouache of Switzerland, 4 watercolours on rice paper, mostly mounted one per page, contemporary morocco, covers detached, 4to, [c.1832-1840]

Album, belonging to Louisa Rose White (1804-1870), approx. 155 mounted engraved or lithographed views of British scenes (including one of White's residence at Selborne), loosely inserted a lithographed plan with view of the Selborne Estate issued for the auction held by George Robins on 28 July 1840, contemporary half morocco, rebacked, folio, [c.1840]

Album, associated with Algernon Holt-White (1807-1880), with newspaper cuttings, printed ephemera (electioneering, schools projects, etc), architectural drawings (including "Plan of the Intended Lodge at... Clements Hall, the Residence of A.W. Holt" signed by G.B. Crowes, Surveyor, 1842), all loose, original calf, worn, folio, [1840/50s]

A collection of approximately nine portrait miniatures, mostly of members of the Holt-White family, mostly mounted, framed and glazed, various sizes, [late nineteenth-early twentieth century]

Miscellaneous others, including 2 twentieth century albums of watercolours, an album of nineteenth century cuttings with a signed document by Leon Gambetta, approximately 40 albumen and silver gelatin photographs, etc. (collection)

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