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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (1836-1917), editor of 'Punch' [Phil May; Philip Leslie Agnew] Autograph Letter Signed ('F C B.') to 'My dear Phil' - the publisher of 'Punch' Philip Leslie Agnew (1863-1938). 12mo: 2 pp. On creased, discoloured paper, with small closed tear and traces of previous mount adhering to reverse. An amusing, playful letter in a smudged, expansive hand. Reads 'My dear Phil \| The other Phil Phil May will Phil the page in Xmas No. This will fill up & give it a fillip. ergo...	Literature	£56.00
[Arthur Griffiths]. [Sinn Féin, newspaper edited by Arthur Griffith] Typewritten draft of circular letter Typewritten draft of circular letter, with corrections, appealing for support for Griffith’s Sinn Féin newspaper, and giving details concerning its foundation. Typescript, 3pp, 4to, good condition. Author and recipient not stated. Undated, but from the context written in 1906. It begins, We...		£1,200.00
Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (1836-1917), English writer, editor of the magazine 'Punch' from 1880 to 1906 Autograph Note Signed ('F. C. Burnand') to unnamed male correspondent. One page. Dimensions of paper roughly four inches by seven. On piece of aged, stained paper, mounted on piece of card. Remains of biographical cutting in bottom right-hand corner. Reads 'Here you are Sir \| Autographs cheap today \| F. C. Burnand \| F. C. B. \| 10 Dec 1901'.	Literature	£30.00
Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (1836-1917), English writer, editor of the magazine 'Punch' from 1880 to 1906 [Mark Lemon] Autograph Note Signed ('F. C. Burnand') to unnamed male individual. On irregular piece of lightly creased and aged paper (roughly seven and a half by four and a half inches), with some chipping to extremities. Headed 'Punch Photographs'. 'Mr Mark Lemon [1809-1870, Punch editor] wishes me to come up to you & be photographed. I propose being with you at one...	Literature	£76.00
[Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England; Eleanor Cross, Geddington, Northamptonshire; John Blackburne (1694-1786) of Orford Hall, Warrington, naturalist and horticulturalist] Eighteenth-century transcription of inscription relating to the Eleanor Cross, Geddington, Northamptonshire, filled with errors and describing its restoration in 1712. From the papers of John Blackburne of Orford Hall, Warrington. 1p., landscape 12mo. On aged and lightly-creased laid paper ('PRO PATRIA' watermark), with chipping to extremities. On reverse, in another hand: 'At Northampton a Monument at the Inn'. The note reads: 'This ancent Mounement was Erected to perpetuate the memory of Queen Eleon [sic] Consort to...	History	£120.00
Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey, William Frederick Witherington, John Jackson, James Lonsdale, Thomas Christopher Hofland, Robert Balmanno Autograph Signatures on fragment of petition. Four noted British artists of the earlier part of the nineteenth-century: Witherington (1785-1865), Jackson (1778-1831), Lonsdale (1777-1839), and Hofland (1777-1843), together with the sculptor Chantrey (1781-1841), and the art critic and connoisseur Balmanno (1780-1861), who left England for...	Art and Architecture	£45.00
Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey Autograph Letter Signed to Alfred Edward Chalon. English painter and sculptor (1781-1841). The recipient (1780-1860) was an English artist of Swiss descent. One page, quarto. Good, but with traces of previous brown-paper mount adhering to rear and minor damage to several corners. Reads 'My Dear Sir \| When I asked you for an impression I had...	Art and Architecture	£66.00
[Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, W. and R. Chambers, Edinburgh] [Printed pamphlet.] Wood-Engraving. 12mo, 16 pp. Unbound, unstitched and unopened. A half-sheet folded three times to make eight leaves. Reproduction of early engraving on first page, vignette of country scene on last page, three illustrations of tools and a further thirteen numbered figures in text. Text and images clear and...	Book Trade History, Printing History	£125.00
Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell (1891-1975) [Clement King Shorter (1857-1926)] Autograph Letter Signed ('Wilfrid Meynell') to the widow (c.1894-c.1980, born Annie Doris Banfield) of the author and journalist Clement King Shorter. 4to, 1 p. With mourning border. Lightly creased, but in good condition overal. A letter of condolence on her husband's death. 'I know that words are useless, but please let me say how much my sympathy goes to you in your great loss. It is, in its measure, a loss to all of us - even a great loss...	Literature	£35.00
Sir Francis Napier, 9th Baron Napier and 1st Baron Ettrick of Ettrick Autograph Letter Signed to Colonel [George Thomas] Haly. Scottish diplomat and governor of India (1819-98). Four pages, 12mo. On mourning paper. Folded twice. Creased and grubby and with traces of previous mounting adhering. Slight loss at foot of first leaf of bifoliate, affecting one word of text. Headed 'Private'. Haly's letter to the private...	Book Trade History, History, Travel and Topography	£85.00