250
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693
DISRAELI & GLADSTONE
Two holograph letters signed from Benjamin Disraeli to Sir Arthur
Guinness Bart. M.P.; two holograph letters from W.E. Gladstone;
also a letter from Henry Irving from the LyceumTheatre 1/7/1897
foregoing a luncheon appointment with Lady Ardilaun.
Both Sir Arthur and his father were ardent supporters of the
conservative party. When Sir Arthur lost the city of Dublin
Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield) supported his craving for a peerage
and he subsequently became Lord Ardilaun, (the name of an island
on Lough Corrib)
€400 - 600
694
LAY OF ASHFORD
(oblong folio) n.p./ n.d. privately printed, decorated title and
vignettes of the house party, original green cloth, lined and lettered
in gilt with a depiction of Ashford from the lake. 235 x 300mm
An archly humorous doggerel with illustrations, in the style of
Edward Lear, of a house party at Ashford. It illustrates the house
before its extensive re-building and enlargement.
The ‘wit’ leaves plenty of clues as to his identity and that of the
other guests which would repay research.
€500 - 1000
695
AN OBLONG PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM,
c.1870s, the red morocco cover stamped, within gilt-ruled borders,
ST. ANNE’S AND ASHFORD, and with the label of
W. Lawrence,
artist and photographer, 5 Upr. Sackville Street, Dublin,
with twenty
three photographs of the exterior and interiors of St. Anne’s, also
the grounds, gardens and lake, each plate, 270 x 370mm
€2000 - 3000
692
KING GEORGE V
Holograph letter signed, as Prince of Wales, Sept. 18th 1904,
accepting Lord Ardilaun’s invitation to a woodcock shoot (at
Ashford) commenting
“I quite understand that your house is
small and I would be perfectly happy to meet only the guns”
with autograph envelope initialled “G” and Prince of Wales
embossed crest.
€300 - 500
