{"product_id":"charterhouse-school-an-album-of-school-photos-and-ephemeral-items-1800220","title":"[CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL] An album of school photos and ephemeral items","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eWITH PRE-WAR PHOTOGRAPHS OF ROBERT GRAVES AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES AT CHARTERHOUSE\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOblong folio; a school photo album in full diced morocco with gilt borders and five raised bands  to spine; decorative floral endpapers and gilt turn-ins; containing 35 leaves of thick black card, 12 of which have been utilised with the affixed images of 80 photographic roundel and square portraits of both pupils and schoolmasters, along with an additional 11 group images of various sports teams and end of term photos; the final image showing a celebratory dinner in one of the halls of the school; together with an additional 11 pieces of ephemera including signed menus, sports day programmes, and wartime letters of condolence bordered in black; one leaf coarsely removed; covers scratched and some loss to the leather at corners of boards and along backstrip of spine; a little dusty, internally, but otherwise excellent; one of the schoolboy’s faces in the dinner photograph has here been scribbled over with pencil for an unknown reason. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fascinating compilation of \u003cb\u003ephotographs and ephemeral items relating to Charterhouse school before, during, and after the Great War\u003c\/b\u003e. Many of the portrait photographs are here signed, and show the boys in school and sports attire, along with some in officer’s wartime dress. Schoolmasters are also pictured and, perhaps most notably, the album contains \u003cb\u003eat least two references to Robert Graves\u003c\/b\u003e; the first a known roundel portrait of Graves as a young schoolboy; the second is contained in a sports day programme dated Saturday November 16th 1912, which mentions a boxing match between the then-17 year old Graves and R. J. P Rodakowski. It is likely that Graves additionally appears in at least some of the additional group shots, though I have been unable to formally identify him. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraves famously had a difficult time at Charterhouse, and was bullied for his German heritage. His full name, in particular, ‘Robert von Ranke Graves’, along with his outspoken and serious nature, led him to pursue boxing in order to respond to this persecution during his time at the school, and he was encouraged by his friend Raymond Rodakowski, whom he is here seen fighting against. He later became the school champion at both welter and middleweight.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContained in the additional items of ephemera are: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ‘Old Carthusian Dinner’ menu, dated Wednesday 12th December 1917 and featuring such delicacies as Sole au Vin Blanc, Scotch Woodcock and Bombe Glace, signed by many of the old Carthusians in attendance to the verso; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Charterhouse Founder’s Day Dinner menu, dated December 14th 1920, including turbot and Gelée Dantzic, similarly signed by several of the Carthusians to the verso; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo handwritten letters addressed either to ‘Vincent’ or ‘Vi’ on Charterhouse School headed notepaper, one a mourning letter which refers to the ‘Zepp raid’ and a fire at nearby Broadwater “in which I earned but did not gain the V.C. for… bravery, in directing a stream of fire-quencher from a nozzle weighing 3 tons…”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA further 6 letters, one a mourning letter, addressed to ‘Seligman’, some pre-war, some mid war. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album appears to have been owned by the recipient of these letters, Vincent Julian Seligman (1886-1972), a contemporary of Graves’ who saw active service in the Gallipoli campaign and also in Salonika, Greece. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fascinating series of photographs and selection of ephemera dating to the Great War, relating to Robert Graves and his contemporaries during their school days at Charterhouse. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnique. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e1800220\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fold the Corner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57198209073476,"sku":"1800220","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/8711\/0212\/files\/1800220.jpg?v=1788626410","url":"https:\/\/foldthecornerbooks.co.uk\/products\/charterhouse-school-an-album-of-school-photos-and-ephemeral-items-1800220","provider":"Fold the Corner Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}