Comments on Bookride: Alastair (Count Hans-Henning von Voigt 1887-1969)

Incredible !! .... I have just been posting a coup...

2012-01-27T21:25:07.788Z

Incredible !! .... I have just been posting a couple of decent posts re Louise Brooks and here she pops up on yr blog too!!

Blimey.

I am sitting here next to this evenings lending library bio on the very woman too.

Yr blog is excellent, many thanks.

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Count Fanny is certainly a curiosity as it would p...

2012-01-04T13:54:29.046Z

Count Fanny is certainly a curiosity as it would predate his other published work by 7 years, assuming the stated date of publication is correct. I haven't read anything to back up the attribution to Alastair and a lot of sellers still describe the drawings as Beardleyesque so who knows? It seems that Hope-Johnstone ended up marrying into the German nobility so perhaps there is some connection there?

If Alastair did illustrate Count Fanny's Nupt...

2012-01-04T10:37:55.267Z

If Alastair did illustrate Count Fanny's Nuptials ( and Maggs seems confident on this )he was an extraordinarily talented teenager.Is anything known of his association with Hope-Johnstone ?

I have a set of the Black Sun Dangerous Liaisons i...

2011-12-30T12:18:20.097Z

I have a set of the Black Sun Dangerous Liaisons in the remains of the silver foil slipcases. Can anyone recommend a restorer for these slipcases or is it not really worth it?

For a cheap access to Alastair, buy the Dover edit...

2011-12-30T10:32:30.383Z

For a cheap access to Alastair, buy the Dover edition of his illustrations which came out last year. Quite definitive and excellent value.

Many thanks -- I have not seen that Nuptials book ...

2011-12-30T00:46:37.052Z

Many thanks -- I have not seen that Nuptials book for a while - not especially valuable and as you say not by Firbank, some say its publisher G.G. Hope Johnstone wrote it...will mention your interest to Robin.

Sorry my last post contained a Trussism! N

2011-12-30T00:36:06.830Z

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...not to forget Count Fanny's Nuptials, whose...

2011-12-29T12:22:58.431Z

...not to forget Count Fanny's Nuptials, whose illustrations are often misattributed to Beardsley and whose text is often misattributed to Firbank.
P.S. Are your copies of the Wedekind plays viewable online?