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Sacheverell Sitwell

Male : Poet and Critic. Married Georgia Doble in 1925
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Scarborough, Yorkshire

Date of Birth : 1897 Date of Death : 1988 Age : 91

Education : St David's, Reigate, Eton & Balliol College, Oxford
1918-1925
The People's Palace : Poems
(1918 Blackwell) - 1st book
Doctor Donne and Gargantua : First Canto
(1921 Favil Press, London) - 101 signed Wyndham Lewis
The Hundred and One Harlequins : Poems
(1922 Grant Richards)
Doctor Donne and Gargantua : 2nd Canto
(1923 Favil Press, London) - 35 Severini
Southern Baroque Art
(1924 Grant Richards) (1924 Knopf)
The Thirteenth Caesar and Other Poems
(1924 Grant Richards)
Poor Young People
(1925 Fleuron) - By all 3 Sitwells. 375. Albert Rutherston

1926-1930
Exalt the Eglantine & Other Poems
(1926 The Fleuron, London) - 370
Doctor Donne and Gargantua : Third Canto
(1926 Shakespeare Head Press Press, London)
- 65 Thomas Lowinsky
All Summer in a Day : An Autobiographical Fantasia
(1926 Duckworth)
All at Sea : A Social Tragedy in Three Acts
(1927 Duckworth) - preface by Sitwell. Beaton d/w
With Osbert Sitwell
The Cyder Feast & Other Poems
(1927 Duckworth) - 165 signed
German Baroque Art
(1927 Duckworth)
The Augustan Books of English Poetry
(1928 Benn)
A Book of Towers & Other Buildings of Southern Europe
(1928 Haselwood Books, London) - 350. Richard Wyndham
German Baroque Art
(1928 Doran, NY)
The Gothick North : A Study of Medieval Art, Life & Thought
(1929-30 Duckworth) - 3 vols
(1938 Duckworth) - 3 vols in 1 (1929 Houghton Mifflin)
Two Poems, Ten Songs
(1929 Duckworth) - 275 signed
Doctor Donne & Gargantua : The First Six Cantos
(1930 Duckworth/Houghton Mifflin) - 215 signed
Beckford and Beckfordism
(1930 Duckworth) - 265

1931-1940
Far from My Home : Stories Long & Short
(1931 Duckworth) - 110 signed with Tchelitchev frontis
Spanish Baroque Art, with Buildings in Portugal, Mexico and Other Colonies
(1931 Duckworth)
Mozart
(1932 Peter Davies, London)
Canons of Giant Art : 20 Torsos in Heroic Landscapes
(1933 Faber) - Enid Lacey
Touching the Orient : Six Sketches
(1934 Duckworth)
Liszt
(1934 Faber) (1955 Cassell 30/-)
A Background for Domenico Scarlatti, 1685 - 1757
(1935 Faber)
Collected Poems
(1936 Duckworth)
Dance of the Quick and the Dead : An Entertainment of the Imagination
(1936 Faber)
Conversation Pieces : A Survey of English Domestic Portraits & Their Painters
(1936 Batsford) - Rex Whistler d/w
Narrative Pictures : A Survey of English Genre & its Painters
(1937 Batsford)
La Vie Parisienne : A Tribute to Offenbach
(1937 Faber)
Roumanian Journey
(1938 Batsford)
The Romantic Ballet in Lithographs of the Time
(1938 Faber) - with Cyril Beaumont
Edinburgh
(1938 Faber) (1939 Houghton Mifflin) - with Francis Bamford. Irene Hawkins d/w
German Baroque Sculpture
(1938 Duckworth) - notes by Nikolaus Pevsner
Old Fashioned Flowers
(1939 Country Life) - 2500. John Farleigh
Poltergeists
(1940 Faber 15/-)
Mauretania : Warrior, Man and Woman
(1940 Duckworth)

1941-1950
Valse des Fleurs : A Day in St Petersburg and a Ball at the Winter Palace in 1868
(1941 Faber)
The Homing of the Winds & Other Passages in Prose
(1942 Faber)
Primitive Scenes and Places
(1942 Faber) - Irene Hawkins d/w
Splendours and Miseries
(1943 Faber) - Irene Hawkins d/w
British Architects and Craftsmen
(1945 Batsford) (1946 Scribner)
The Hunters and the Hunted
(1947 Macmillan) (1948 Macmillan NY) - rene Hawkins d/w
Selected Poems
(1948 Duckworth)
(Intro & Notes) Tropical Birds - from Plates by John Gould (1947 Batsford)
The Romantic Ballet from Contemporary Prints
(1948 Batsford)
Tropical Birds
(1948 Batsford)
Morning, Noon and Night in London
(1948 Macmillan) - Alfred Concanen
The Netherlands
(1948 Batsford)
(Intro) Gallery of Fashion 1790-1822 (1949 Batsford)
Theatrical Figures in Porcelain
(1949 Curtain Press, London 3/6)
Audubon's American Birds
(1949 Batsford)
Sleeping Beauty : Sadler's Wells Ballet Book No 1
(1949 Bodley Head)
Spain
(1950 Batsford)

1951-1960
Cupid and Jacaranda Tree
(1952) - Irene Hawkins d/w
Truffle Hunt
(1953 Robert Hale)
Fine Bird Books 1700-1900 : A Bibliographical Record of Coloured Plate Books
(1953 Collins & Van Nostrand) - 2000, 295 signed, with H Buchanan & James Fisher
Offered for £600 in 1994
Portugal and Madeira
(1954 Batsford)
Selected Works
(1955) - Irene Hawkins d/w
Old Garden Roses
(1955-7 London) - 2 vols. 2000. Special Ed signed. with J Russell & W Blunt
Denmark
(1956 Batsford)
Great Flower Books 1700-1900
(1956 Collins) - 1750. with Wilfrid Blunt. 295 signed by both
Arabesque and Honeycomb
(1957 Robert Hale) (1958 Random House)
Malta
(1958 Batsford)
Journey to the Ends of Time
(1959 Cassell) (1959 Random House) - only 1 vol publ
Bridge of the Brocade Sash : Travels & Observations in Japan
(1959 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

1961-1975
Golden Wall and Mirador : A Visit to Peru
(1961 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
The Red Chapels of Banteai Srei & Temples in Cambodia, India, Siam & Nepal
(1962 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Great Temples of the East
(1962 Oblensky, NY)
Great Palaces
(1964 London)
Mons, Nuns and Monasteries
(1965)
Poetry Reviews
(1967)
Southern Baroque Revisited
(1967 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Gothic Europe
(1969 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
A Charivari of Parrots
(1972)
To Henry Woodward
(1972 Covent Garden Press) - 26 signed of 376
Baraka and Dionysia
(1973)
For Want of the Golden City
(1974 Thames & Hudson)
The Netherlands
(1974 Batsford)
Badinerie
(1974)
Nymphis et Fontibus and Nymphaeum
(1975 Brackley Booklets, Northants) - 120
Notebook on Twenty Canons of Giant Art
(1975 Brackley, for the author)

After 1976
Credo, or an Affirmation
(1976)
A Second Tryptych of Poems
(1976)
A Pair of Entr'Actes for August Evenings
(1976)
Serenade to a Sister
(1976)
Tropicalia
(1977)
Brother and Sisiter
(1977)
Diptycha Musica
(1977)
The Octogenarian
(1977)
Nine Ballads, Four More Lilies
(1977)
Dodecameron
(1977)
Little Italy in London
(1977)
Looking for the Gods of Light
(1978)
The Rose-Pink Chapel
(1978)
Scherzo do Capriccio
(1978)
Scherzo di Fantasia
(1978)
Catalysts in Collusion
(1979)
Op Cit Et Cetera
(1979)
Allotment or Assignment ?
(1980)
Valse de Fleurs
(1980 Fairfax Press, York)
Nocturnae Silvani Potenti
(1980)
Pomonta Lactodorum
(1980)
An Indian Summer
(1982 Macmillan £6.95)
Sacheverell Sitwell's England
(1986 Orbis) - Edited by M Raeburn

READING
R L Megroz : The Three Sitwells : A Biographical & Critical Study
(1927 Richards Press)
A Rutherston & Thomas Balston : Sitwelliana 1915-1927 : Being a Handlist of Works
by the Sitwells
(1928 Duckworth)
R Fifoot : A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert & Sacheverell Sitwell
(1971 OUP. 2nd Ed)
John Pearson : The Sitwells - A Family Biography
(1978 NY)
Neil Ritchie : Sachervell Sitwell - An Annotated and Descrptive Bibliography 1916-1986
(1987 The Giardo Press, Florence)
Sarah Bradford : Sacheverell Sitwell - Splendours & Miseries
(1993 Sinclair Stevenson £20)

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See also

William Thomas Beckford
Enoch Arnold Bennett
Compleat Imbiber Series
John Egerton Piper
Sir Osbert Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell