[ Dion Clayton Calthrop, artist and author. ] Autograph sketchbook, containing portraits, historical studies, landscapes (two of them in charcoal colours), and ornamental designs.

52pp., 12mo. In green cloth notebook with label of Reeves & Sons Ltd, London. In good condition, with moderate signs of age and wear, in worn binding. Calthrop's ownership inscription in pencil on front pastedown: 'Dion Clayton Calthrop | 29 Sussex Place | Queens Gate | S.W.' Apart from the two landscape studies in charcoal colours (both of cliffs by the sea), the rest of the sketchbook consists of pencil sketches in a tight, disciplined hand. At the start are three studies for a portrait of a lady in the style of Holbein, with full view, a study of the face, and another of her hands resting on a book. There follow; a landscape titled 'A field farm. | Ewelme. | May 03.'; a woman lying on her front in a field, captioned 'Fourleaved Clover. Ewelme. 1903'; several pages of ornamental designs (one with note 'Edward III. a Fleur de lys - a sword - a falcon - a Gryphin - the Stock of a Tree Rays issuing from a Cloud!'); a couple of sketches of an angel holding a stringed instrument; women's costume; mediaeval women's heads ; old furniture (bed and ornate carved sideboard); three portraits of an Edwardian woman (Calthorp's wife?); crude studies of Charles II, Lord Rochester and the Duke of Buckingham on a page headed 'Photos of Everyman'; another landscape showing two nuns on a beach beneath a cliff; a cartoon of the rear view of a gentleman, captioned 'Uncle Barlow!'; a haybale in fields; a horse and cart; a pig; hens roosting inside the roof of a barn; two views through a village; a landscape of a village in the countryside, with the proposed colour scheme for painting noted; and a sketch of trees, captioned: 'Oakleigh Wood - 1903 May. | Bluebells. Orchids. Forgetmenots. Wild flowers. Primroses. Cowslips. dandelions. lace flowers. buttercups. Violets Star of Bethlehem. Birdseye. Wild cherrys. Blackthorn. Wild Strawberry. White hyacinth.' The volume contains one sketch by another hand, a watercolour of a country house, captioned 'Scene in Ewelme' and crudely signed 'Violets drawing'. It is most likely by Calthrop's wife Mary Violet Clayton Calthrop, but may be the work of a daughter. Calthrop published on English costume, and illustrated Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" (1906). ETC.