18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
2057
Brontë Circle
Ringrose family scrap-album, c.1835-40. 4to (285 x 228 mm), disbound, 69 ff. (plus 2 blanks and endpaper), with numerous steel-engravings, etchings and lithographs mounted to rectos and versos (mainly portraits and views, many hand-coloured, several apparently Dutch), one leaf containing a watercolour sketch of a cockerel signed 'Amelia Ringrose' in brown ink, together with a sepia watercolour view captioned in the same hand 'The Spanish Pass, Selena, Pampeluna' and a pencil sketch captioned 'Cowslip-Green' (sometime home of Hannah More), two pages containing a full transcription of 'Remembrance' by Robert Southey signed 'Rotterdam, April 1837, Jn. Ringrose', one page with a mounted floral watercolour signed 'L. Krämer, Jn. Ringrose, Mrs C. L Ringrose, E. Krämer, 1838', last few leaves near detached.
Amelia Taylor (née Ringrose, 1818-1860?) was a friend and correspondent of Charlotte Brontë whose engagement to George Nussey, brother of Ellen, was called off owing to his mental instability. She appears to have been born in the Netherlands, where her father Christopher Leake Ringrose, a Hull shipowner and merchant, had business interests.
Sold for £140
Estimated at £300 - £500
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 18th May, 2022
Over 180 lots to include a broad selection, from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, and historic documents. Amongst the highlights is a group of Victorian ephemera including a Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, and a very unusual leaf-cut picture of workers around a derelict tower and trees. Of North-East interest is a collection of approximately 240 19th and early 20th century photographs, and an outstanding archive of early drawings and plans relating to Radcliffe and Broomhill Collieries.
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