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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
[Thomas] Gardiner, bookseller, owner of circulating library, etc. Bookplate/Label. Bookplate, c.17 x 10cm, stained, three letters of address obscured by wear, otherwiswe text clear, mainly good condition. "GARDINER, \| Bookseller [...] \| and \| Bookbinder [...address] Where books are lent to read \| at \| Twelve Shillings per year [...] \|\| BOOKS BOUGHT, SOLD, OR EXCHANGED \|\|...	Book Trade History	£180.00
Abraham Vandenhoeck and George Richmond, Booksellers Bookplate Bookplate, c.8 x 14cm, marks show it was tipped onto an album page once, ow good. Image of Virgil's head. 3cm diameter, followed by calligraphic "This Book \| is to be sold at the Shop of \| Abraham Vandenhoek \| AND \| George Richmond. \| the sign of Virgill's Head. \| Opposite Exeter Exchange in the...	Book Trade History	£450.00
G. Dyer, Exeter Circulating Library owner and (aspirant) Bookseller. Bookseller's Label Label, irregular oval, dims.c/ 9 x 6cm, laid down on slightly larger (rectangular) piece of paper, glue showing through in patches, text clear and complete, "G. Dyer \| Begs to acquaint hid Freiends \| That he in tends, in future,to purchase \| LIBRARIES and PARCELS of \| BOOKS for SALE, and will be...	Book Trade History	£120.00
The Leadenhall Press - Field and Tuer The Leadenhall Press Sixteenpenny Series. Illustrated Gleanings from the Classics. Numbers 1 to 4. 4 volumes, 4to, each with a preface by John Oldcastle. Number one: Sir Charles Grandison, 36 pages, 6 illustrations; number two: Solomon Gessner ("The Swiss Theocritus"), 28 pages, 6 illustrations and extra portrait; number three: Thomson's Seasons, 32 pages, 4 illustrations and extra portrait;...	Literature	£200.00
The Leadenhall Press [W. J. Loftie; the Victorian London book trade; nineteenth-century publishing; book pirates; piracy; publisher] London City. [Pamphlet attacking 'a Piratical Publisher'; with illustration.] 12mo: 12 pages. Dimensions of leaf roughly 12 x 10 cm. Stitched and unbound. Good, with outer pages a little grubby and 3.5 cm closed tear up spine of outer leaves. A scarce and unusual piece of ephemera: no copy at the British Library and none on COPAC. Title advertises the pamphlet at 'ONE...	Book Trade History	£100.00
THE LEAGUE OF REMEMBRANCE [Mrs E. H. Gibson (Myra Macindoe Gibson)] Typed letter signed by Gibson, together with printed copy of the League's thirty-sixth annual report, and unsigned carbon copies of reply from the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. Mrs Gibson, whose husband was Vice-Chairman of the League, died in 1966. Her letter (one page, quarto, very good apart from rust stain from paperclip) explains that the League is 'at present in temporary premises' and 'without accommodation for its Annual General Meeting' in November ('Her Grace...	History, Military and Naval History	£45.00
THE LONDON FEMALE GUARDIAN SOCIETY Autograph Letter Signed by the Society's secretary W. E. Page to Messrs Coutts & Co, Bankers. The society's letterhead has a circular engraving, 1 1/2 inches in diameter, of Jesus and a fallen woman, surrounded by the quotation ':JESUS SAID UNTO HER, NEITHER DO I CONDEMN THEE: GO, AND SIN NO MORE.' It describes the Society as 'Being "THE LONDON FEMALE PENITENTIARY," founded at...	Social history, Women	£35.00
The Lords Justices. Document Signed by the Lords Justices and other parties. Two pages, folio, minor defects including soiling, small holes and tears, but text complete and legible. Signatories at the top are: [Thomas] Parker, Henry Grey, Duke of Kent ("Kent C.P.S.), John Ker, Ist Duke of Roxburghe, James Craggs the Younger ("J Craggs"). "We do hereby direct, that out of...		£750.00
The Manchester Weekly Times [Victorian newspapers; nineteenth-century provincial periodicals] Printed publicity material relating to the insertion of an advertisement in 'The Manchester Weekly Times'. The main text is printed on one side of a piece of paper roughly 28 x 13.5 cm, headed 'Upwards of Thirty Thousand Copies Of the "Manchester Weekly Times," with Eight-page Literary Supplement, are Issued Every Saturday.' The main block of text, in a variety of types and point sizes, consists of...	Printing History	£56.00
The Mathematical Association [founded in England in 1871 as founded in 1871 as the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching] Rules of the Mathematical Association. 8vo, 12 pp. Stapled and in original blue printed wraps. Good, with minor staining to wraps at top of spine. Eight 'Rules' and three 'Regulations', with a separate entry on 'Regulations for the Use of the Library'. Not listed on COPAC.		£56.00