The Dennis Wheatley 'Museum'

The legacy of Gordon Eric Gordon-Tombe (continued)

The final drawing for the bookplate
Below are two books from DW's library with the
Pape bookplate that are of particular
Gordon-Tombe significance:

The copy of Oscar Wilde that Gordon-Tombe always
carried with him. It was when DW discovered it still in
Gordon-Tombe's lodgings after his disappearance that
DW became seriously worried that something had
happened to him

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DW's copy of Walter Pater's 'The Renaissance' with DW's comments
about the murder opposite the bookplate, and at the back, DW's
'earlier' bookplate with his account about how the book was
recommended to him by Gordon-Tombe, and how he had the book
with him when he first met his first wife Nancy

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For transcripts of the inscriptions, click here

The frame of the drawing for the bookplate is the original, and it is thought the picture hung in DW's bedroom at Lymington.

The drafts were originally tucked into the back.

Note the typical DW spelling mistake.

Below the bookplate are shown two books from DW's library of particular Gordon-Tombe significance.

References : 'Drink and Ink' pp136-138.
Phil Baker pp 196,216-7,238,255-6.
The Bookplate Journal, Volume 4 No. 2, September 1986.

*Provenance :*	*DW's bookplate and 'Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde': Private collections*
	*Pater's 'The Renaissance': With thanks to Kevin Pearce*

The Dennis Wheatley 'Museum' - Gordon Eric Gordon-Tombe

The legacy of Gordon Eric Gordon-Tombe (continued)