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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Edward Walford (1823-97), topographer, genealogist, antiquary and editor of 'Once a Week' and 'The Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer' Ten Autograph Letters Signed (all 'E Walford') to a number of different correspondents (including A., F. and H. Barker, Mrs Ratcliffe and a newspaper editor named 'Taylor'). All items good, though on dusty and aged paper. Five items are addressed to sellers of manuscripts (probably the same individual). ONE (to H. Barker, 23 April 1885, on letterhead of 'The Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer', one page, octavo): Asks to be offered Wellesley autographs purchased...	History, Literature, Travel and Topography	£400.00
Edward Walter Hanbury Wood (1898-1947) of Hengrave Hall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk [Eton College] Manuscript Account Book of 'Expenses at Eton and elsewhere'. 12mo. In original waxed cloth. Good, with slight wear to binding. Entries on forty-one pages. Short, informative, account of an individual who was presumably a member of 'Pop', there being several tips to servants. Begins on 20 January with expenses including 'Porters' for the 'Journey to Eton...	Economics, Education, Social history	£180.00
Edward Willard Autograph notes signed (x 5). English actor (1853-1915), admired for his melodramatic villains. The first, to Mr Philip, 14 December 1903, St. James's Theatre, one page, 12mo. "Herewith a cheque for one guinea in exchange for the dinner ticket you sent me a week or so since". The other three all written to Allan Gomme in...	Music and Theatre	£40.00
Edward William Cooke (1811-80), marine painter; Charles George Lewis (1808-80), engraver Engraving by Lewis, after Cooke, of 'CALAIS PIER'. On India paper roughly three and a half inches by six and a half wide, mounted on a thick piece of wove paper ten inches by fourteen and a half. Cooke's name is engraved on the illustration, and printed on the mount are the title, Lewis's name and a double ruled border. Good clear impression....	Art and Architecture, Travel and Topography	£265.00
Edward, Duke of Kent Autograph Signature on fragment of letter. Father of Queen Victoria (died 1820). On piece of paper roughly 3 1/2 inches square. In very good condition. Fragments of seven lines of letter on reverse. These, and the valediction ('<...> yours \| most faithfu') are written in a secretary's hand, and the signature 'Edward' is...	Royalty	£50.00
Edward, Prince of Saxe-Weimar Autograph Signature on fragment of letter. Army officer (1823-1902), nephew of Queen Adelaide, wife of William IV, and one of the young Queen Victoria's playfellows. Paper dimensions roughly 2 1/2 inches by 1 1/2. In good condition, although with two light creases. Reads 'Edd. Saxeweimar'. Small fragment of letter with mourning...	Royalty	£30.00
Edwin Arlington Robinson. Merlin. A Poem. Red cloth, bumping, top and bottom of spine worn, hunge strain at titlepage, mainly good condition. INSCRIBED by Peggy Guggenheim after an unsigned inscription (author unidentified) saying "A book full of color to a colorful girl / Xmas 1919". The ink-stamp of her name and NY address also occurs...	Literature	£100.00
[ Walt Disney, animator ] [ Alice in Wonderland ] [ Walt Disney, animator. ] Full-page colour cartoon strips from the English edition of 'Mickey Mouse Weekly', including 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Cinderella'. Six leaves extracted from the two issues, carrying six pages of coloured cartoon strips, with black and white text and illustrations on their reverses. In fair condition, lightly aged. Comprising: front cover of issue for 19 July 1950, carrying 'Donald's Swan Song \| In the Swim!' [ featuring...		£25.00
Sir Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890), English social reformer, pioneer in the fields of the Poor Laws, sanitary conditions and public health [ George Stacey (1787-1857), Quaker abolitionist ] [ Sir Edwin Chadwick, social reformer. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('Edwin Chadwick') to the Quaker abolitionist George Stacey, blaming 'cholera cases, & some other matters of possible emergency' for not being able to attend at 'the Institution'. 2pp., 12mo. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper with spike hole through one word (the 'yours' of 'Very truly yours'). He apologises for being foreced to forego the opportunity of 'attending at the Institution, which I have often wished to revisit', as a result of the requirement for 'an...		£60.00
Edwin Babcock Holden (1861-1906) [AUCTION CATALOGUE; THOMAS E. KIRBY, AUCTIONEER; GROLIER CLUB] The Splendid Library of the Late Edwin B. Holden, at one time President of the Grolier Club, New York City. To be sold at unrestricted public sale by order of Mrs. Holden. Quarto. Unpaginated (circa 240 pages?). 1789 lots. Numerous plates. Good, in worn contemporary olive cloth binding, with black label. Front wrap, printed in black and red, bound in at rear. Most lots priced in manuscript. Many fine bindings, privately printed, association and Kelmscott Press...	Book Trade History, Printing History	£150.00