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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
John Boultbee Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent. English equestrian artist (1753-1812). 1 page, 8vo. In poor condition: creased, frayed and torn. He has that morning received from his correspondent's servant 'the sum of sixteen Pounds nine shillings payment for your Pictures'. He will send them 'by the first conveyance' and hopes they will...	Art and Architecture	£85.00
John Bowles (1751-1819), barrister and author [John Wright (1770-1841) of Piccadilly, bookseller and publisher of Gifford's 'Anti-Jacobin'] Autograph Letter Signed ('J Bowles') to 'Mr Wright \| Piccadilly', confirming his authorship of the 'Letters of the Ghost of Alfred'. 12mo, 2 pp. Bifolium with address on second leaf. Twenty-five lines. Text clear and complete. On aged, spotted and repaired paper. A significant letter, confirming Bowles's hitherto-tentative authorship of the 'Letters of the Ghost of Alfred', which was printed by Wright in 1798. Bowles informs...	Law, Literature	£200.00
John Bowyer Nichols and Son, Printers and Booksellers; John Kitson; Simon Wilkin, Norwich bookseller; Josiah Fletcher, Norwich bookbinder [The Gentleman's Magazine] Receipt, signed 'B Nichols, 25 Parliament Street', for a guinea subscription to Forby's 'Vocabulary'. Countersigned by Fletcher. On one side of a piece of wove paper roughly 10.5 x 17.5 cm. Good. Printed in top left-hand corner: 'To J. B. Nichols and Son. Printers and Booksellers. 25, Parliament Street, Westminster. ***Office, 10, King Street, Westminster.' Asks that the 'Subscription to Forby's Vocabulary 1 1 0' be paid...	Book Trade History	£25.00
John Bowyer Nichols. Autograph note signed to T.C. Croker. Printer and antiquary (1779-1863), editor and owner of Notes and Queries, also published ‘Anecdotes of William Hogarth,’ 1833, with forty-eight plates, a compilation from his father's ‘Biographical Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth’ (see Notes and Queries, 4th ser. i. 97). Autograph note signed, 2pp.,...	Book Trade History, Printing History	£75.00
Antony Brett-James (1920-1984), 5th Indian Division Royal Signals, military historian and Sandhurst lecturer Sixty-five black-and-white pencil portraits by Antony Brett-James, 5th Indian Division Royal Signals, of Indian soldiers who served under him and his fellow English officers, including the fifteen reproduced in his book 'Report My Signals' (1948). A feature of Brett-James's well-received war memoir 'Report My Signals' (1948) was the fifteen reproductions of his pencil drawings of Indian men who served under him, the originals of which are present here, together with a further fifty. These indicate Brett-James's skill at conveying...		£600.00
[Directions for a nineteenth-century English servant; Victorian domestic service] Manuscript Victorian directions for a servant in a large establishment, giving twenty instructions, primarily regarding cleaning. 4pp., 16mo. Bifolium. On piece of watermarked laid paper. The first page reads: 'Not to call out to any of the servants but to go up to them when wanted or to ring the call bell. \| Care about curtains & chairs - wear white cotton gloves to touch them with \| Open shutters gently so as not to...		£60.00
[ Pear Tree Press; Percy J. Smith, calligrapher; James Guthrie, artist, typographer, and printer ] [Pear Tree Press; Limited Edition ] The Beatitudes from The Sermon on the Mount Not paginated, 12mo, covers buff, linen spine, leaves of main text opened, others unopened, covers sl. grubby, corners sl. bumped, contents good++ No. 44 of 200 Limited Edition. Text by Percy J. Smith, drawings by James Guthrie.		£200.00
[Festival of Britain 1951; Photography] A small collection of reports and correspondence concerning the use of photography at the Festival of Britain. Items, all with punch-holes, from the files of Charles E. Fraser, later Chief photographer and Head of the photographic department of the Festival of Britain 1951, as follows: a. 2 Savoy Court, Strand, WC2, 20 Oct. 1949, one page, fol., "Copy", giving the minutes of a meeting attended by...		£320.00
John Britton Fragment of Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed correspondent. English antiquary and topographer (1771-1857). Paper dimensions roughly four and a half inches by two and a half. Folded once. Good, on slightly discoloured paper. Good clean signature. Reads 'Yrs very truly \| John Britton \| 17 Burton Street'. Lines above and below signature perhaps in another...	Travel and Topography	£18.00
John Britton (1771-1857), antiquary and topographer [John Wodderspoon, Suffolk antiquary] Autograph Letter Signed ('J Britton') to Wodderspoon 8vo, 1 p. Address, with broken wax seal and two postmarks, on verso of second leaf of bifolium. He has ('with much satisfaction') read in the Gentleman's Magazine an account of Wodderspoon's 'new work on Suffolk' ('Historic sites, and other remarkable and interesting places, in the county of...	Travel and Topography	£56.00