WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR 15/16 MAY 2021

172 Books 424 Wardrop, James. Essays on the Morbid Anatomy of The Human Eye, 1819. London and Edinburgh, Archibald Constable, 1819. 2 volumes, 16 hand coloured plates, armorial book plates of James Brodie, Brodie House. Rare first work on eye pathology and the foundation of ophthalmic pathology and first ophthalmology work to have colour illustrations. Original calf, gilt labels and decorated spines. Condition: Covers bumped at corners, otherwise fine. With a letter, 5 July 1985, from Dr. Daniel Albert of the Institute of Opthamology, University of London. Daniel M. Albert (born 1936) is an American ophthalmologist, ocular cancer researcher, medical historian, and collector of rare books and ocular equipment. As of 2018, he is Professor of Ophthalmology at the Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University. Estimate €600-€800 (approx £520-£700) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 424 425 Wilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and Sixteen Letters. 1899, Leonard Smithers, London. 7th edition, with author’s name printed on title; unlike previous printings this ed revealed the authors identity with the authors name in printed brackets under his cell number, C.3.3. on title page. olive and white cloth gilt. Sixteen Letters, Faber & Faber, London, 1930, edited and with notes by John Rothenstein. Red cloth gilt with crest, in black leather clamshell box, with bookplate of Ronald Fuller, Merton College, Oxford, designed by Rex Whistler. Condition: Covers slightly bumped, interior very good, uncut pages, toned at edges. Sixteen Letters is very fine. Ronald Fuller was a close friend of Rex Whistler at Haileybury School, where they shared a love of eccentricity and illustrated books – Whistler generally illustrating Fuller’s stories (in later life, Fuller co-wrote Whistler’s Catalogue Raisonné). An exceptionally bright student, Fuller went on to study at Merton College, Oxford in the 1920s (the pair remained friends andWhistler designed his first-ever bookplate for Fuller while at Merton). After leaving Oxford, Fuller established himself as a literary critic (he wrote regularly for the Poetry Review and was the author of ‘Literary Craftsmanship & Appreciation’) and wrote a pair of distinctly eccentric but scholarly books called ‘The Beggars’ Brotherhood’ (a history of begging) and ‘Hell-Fire Francis’ (a history of the notorious Francis Dashwood and the Hell-Fire Club). One common factor in these apparently disparate books was an interest in social nonconformity of one kind or another. In his literary criticism, too, Fuller showed an appreciation of outsider poets, such as A.S.J.Tessimond and John Lehmann. Unlike Whistler, who despite being 35 at the outbreak of war, volunteered immediately and was commissioned into the Welsh Guards, Fuller registered as a conscientious objector and faced a tribunal, where he was exempted from military service on the condition that he perform alternative civilian duties Estimate €120-€150 (approx £100-£130) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 425