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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Frederic Harrison Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent. Author and positivist (1831-1923). 1 page, 16mo. In poor condition: grubby, creased and worn. Having returned to London 'after an absence of many months' he has found at the Athenaeum Club his correspondent's two letters. He is sorry for the delay: 'The Club has been closed for repairs & the...		£35.00
Frederic Harrison Autograph Letter Signed,to an unnamed woman Author and positivist (1831-1923). 4pp., 4to, He is responding to an appeal from the "Gould Committee", formed when Gould ceased to be teacher for the Moral Education League. Harrison goes into detailed discussion of the implications, prophesying economic difficulties for years to come.		£45.00
Frederic Harrison Herbert Spencer Lecture delivered at Oxford, March 9, 1905. Author and positivist (1831-1923). Printed item. Frederic Harrison, "The Herbert Spencer Lecture delivered at Oxford, March 9, 1905 , wraps, chipped, contents g., with a card attached to the titlepage, saying that the pamphlet is a gift and “cost me long study”, signed “F.H.”.		£45.00
Frederic Harrison (1831-1923), English jurist, radical politician, positivist and biographer of John Ruskin Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent. 12mo: 1 page. On lightly stained paper with remains of mounts adhering to the four corners. Although honoured, he cannot accept the invitation to address the University Literature Society, 'this term at any rate'. 'I have at present a course of lectures twice a week at the Temple; & in...	Literature	£56.00
Frederic Harrison (1831-1923), English positivist and author Autograph Card Signed to 'Mrs. Sidgwick'. Dimensions of card roughly 9 x 11.5 cm. Mounted on rectangle of paper, 12 x 21.5 cm, part of leaf from autograph album. 9 lines of text. Since their meeting he has 'been kept in the house, even in my room, with a cold, and as the cough continues, I am not allowed to go out'. Wishes her 'Many...	Literature	£25.00
Frederic Herbert Trench (1865-1923), Irish poet Autograph Note Signed ('Herbert Trench', twice) to unnamed female correspondent. Octavo, one page. Good, with stains from paperclip at head. Large bold signature on top half of leaf, and body of note, with signature on bottom half. 'I have pleasure in sending my signature. Yes I am the author of "Deirdre Wedded" & "New Poems" (including Apollo & the Seaman) which...	Literature	£40.00
Frederic Madden (1801-1873), scholar and librarian Observations on an autograph of Shakspere, and the orthography of his name. Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries by Sir Frederic Madden ... in a letter to John Gage 2 p. ., [3]-16, [2] p. 22 cm, beige wraps chipped and worn, and partially detached, fair condition. Notes: Facsimile of Shakespeare’s autograph on t.-p.; "Reprinted from the Archaeologia, vol. XXXVII, pp. 113-123, with some corrections." It includes a 2pp. list of related books (Shakespeariana)...	Literature	£25.00
Frederic Madden. Autograph Letters Signed (x 2) to the “Rev. J.L. Williams”. Palaeographer and antiquary (1801-1873). 2pp., 8vo, good. In the first, Madden explains how Williams will be able to copy a miniature in the “Bedford Missal” (by “a special letter of recommendation”). In the second, he accepts Williams’ references andt hat the artist he will use is “careful and...		£80.00
[Arthur Tooth, vicar of St James's, Hatcham; 'Lewis Carroll' [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], author of the 'Alice in Wonderland' books; Benjamin Dale; English Church Union; Tractarianism; Oxford Movement] ['Alice in Wonderland' parody, 1877.] Corrected manuscript of anonymous poem titled 'A Lay of Hatcham \| Good Friday 1877 \| (with apologies to the Author of Alice in Wonderland)', relating to the Ritualist Vicar of St James's, Hatcham, Arthur Tooth. 2pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly aged and creased. On ruled wove paper with Monckton watermark. Sixty-line poem in ten six-line stanzas. An early parody of Lewis Carroll's 'The Walrus and the Carpenter'; the original was published in 'Alice Through the Looking-Glass' in 1871. The first...		£100.00
Frederic William Farrar (1831-1903), Dean of Canterbury and Master of Marlborough College, 1871-6 [Herbert Armitage James; Rossall School; Rugby School] Autograph Letter Signed ('F W Farrar') to [Herbert Armitage] James[, Headmaster of Rossall School]. Four pages, 12mo. Very good, on lightly aged paper, with minor traces of two mounts adhering to verso of second leaf of bifolium. Praises 'the excellent Sermon'. 'You will doubtless have a difficult work at Rossall, but every term will render it less difficult' [...] One can't ask for a greater...	Literature, Religion	£100.00