[Rarebooks] fa: SIGN OF FLYING FAME - CLAUD LOVAT FRASER - Hand-Colored Broadsides, Garlands & more)

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other 19th-century American literature and  
history, auctions ending Sunday, July 3. More details and images can  
be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name  
arch_in_la.

http://shop.ebay.com/arch_in_la/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562

Thanks again,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

Ten Broadsides. Printed by A.T. Stevens, of St. Martins Lane, in the  
City Of Westminster, for Flying Fame, 45 Roland Gardens, London,  
[1913]. Price — Twopence, plain. Fourpence, coloured.  Each a single  
leaf printed on watermarked paper, measuring ca. 11.5" x 6", with hand- 
colored decorations by Claud Lovat Fraser. A few minor dimples,  
otherwise Fine, unfolded, unsoiled.

Two "Garlands." Printed by A.T. Stevens for Flying Fame, 1913. Price  
Fourpence plain, Sixpence coloured. Each a large sheet (14" x9")  
folded in four to make a 12mo booklet of 8 pp., untrimmed and uncut,  
with hand-colored decorations by Claud Lovat Fraser. Fine condition.

Flying Fame Ephemera: 2nd List of Broadsides, Chapbooks, and Garlands.  
A prospectus/catalog printed on thin brown paper, 4 pp., measuring 9"  
x 7", with a large woodcut illustration by Lovat Fraser; listing 18  
chapbooks, broadsides and garlands, including all of the titles above.  
Vertical crease, short tears at the edges, top fore-corner of the  
second leaf torn way, not affecting any text. Two items on Flying Fame  
letterhead: 1) A 1914 receipt made out to Captain E. Clive Coates of  
Cambridge Square for the above broadsides and garlands. 2) An  
autograph note reading: "With compliments / at the request of Mrs.[?]  
Graham Colmer."

A charming collection of uncommon items from this short-lived fine  
press, founded in 1912 by Lovat Fraser with the poet Ralph Hodgson and  
bookman Holbrook Jackson. These "deluxe" broadsides and garlands with  
hand-colored decorations are particularly desirable, even more so in  
this condition.