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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
William John Knox-Little (DNB), divine and preacher ALS, 3pp, 16mo, to "Mr Light" Agrees to preach (" 'make a few remarks' in your pulpit)" on Sunday morning, despite the fact that "my preaching days are over". "the fewer people who know it the better". Warns that he has neither physical nor mental strength left, and "By disobeying the medical tyrants" has previously got into...		£45.00
William John Thoms Victorian studio photograph. Antiquary (1803-85), first editor of Notes and Queries. Sepia. Dimensions roughly 2 1/4 inches by 3 1/2 inches. Faded image of a bespectacled Thoms knees upward, seated in profile at a table examining a small book on top of another book and leaning against a pile of six others. The oval is in a...		£35.00
[Christopher Sykes; Kingston-upon-Hull; M. C. Peck and Son; George Falkner and Sons, Manchester [Printed illustrated handbill advertisement] A Graunde Fantesie Fayre schal be holden in a Marketynge Plaice in Ye Halles of Assemblie, or Jarratt Streete Roomes, situate in ye pleasaunte toune of Kyngeston-upon-Hull. 4to, 4 pp. Bifolium. Printed in brown on watermarked laid paper. Fair, on aged paper. An exercise in Wardour Street English, foreshadowing in some respects the Leadenhall Press with its mish-mash of fonts and point sizes, and its antiquated decorative rules. The fair will be opened by 'Maister...	History	£38.00
William Johnson Fox Autograph Letter Signed to 'Mr Teulon' [W. F. Teulon, author of 'Sacramental Exercises' (1837)?]. Preacher, politician and author (1786-1864). 3 pages, 16mo. Grubby and discoloured, with some damp damage to second leaf of bifoliate, but no loss of text. He says he is 'ashamed of having kept yr MSS so long - \| I think the Analysis of Michaelis very useful - & shd think it likely to be...		£30.00
Charles Lever, London solicitor [Thomas Wright (1810-1877), antiquary, Secretary of the Camden Society] [Charles Lever, London solicitor.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Chas: Lever.') [to Thomas Wright?], subscribing to the newly-formed Camden Society, and making suggestions regarding 'the proposed undertaking'. 1p., 4to. 22 lines of text. In very good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with traces of mount on reverse. After asking for his name to be added to the list of subscribers, he makes three numbered 'suggestions in reference to the extended popularity of the proposed undertaking', regarding...	History, Literature	£145.00
William Kirby [John White, bookseller; Stephen Couchman, printer] Printed handbill advertising the publication of Kirby's 'Monographia Apum Angliae'. One page, on rough-edged grey wove paper, roughly nine inches by six wide. An attractive production of twenty-two lines, with ornamental rules top and bottom, headed 'This Day is Published, \| IN TWO VOLUMES OCTAVO, \| PRICE ONE GUINEA IN BOARDS, \| Monographia Apum Angliae; \| [...] \| By WILLIAM...	Book Trade History, Natural History, Printing History	£120.00
William Kissam Vanderbilt Autograph Letter Signed to Messrs Berry & Co., Wine Merchants, St James St, London. American capitalist (1849-1920); railroad tycoon. Two pages, 12mo. On discoloured, stained paper. The letter has been spiked and there is a hole through one word and a closed tear from this to an edge. 'Dear Sirs. \| I have called you today. Send 8 doz. Dagonet Brut 84 care of H. M. Bland...	Social history	£120.00
William Kitchiner ['John Jervis, An Old Coachman.'] The Traveller's Oracle; Or, Maxims for Locomotion: Containing Precepts for Promoting the Pleasures and Hints for Preserving the Health of Travellers. [Part II: 'By John Jervis, An Old Coachman.] [Including sheet music of eight songs by Kitchiner.] 2 vols, 12mo. Vol.1: viii + 264 pp. Vol.2: viii + 336 pp. Complete, with all the engravings of sheet music listed in the contents (vol.1: five two-page plates and one four-page plate, with one more piece of music 'printed with the letterpress'; vol.2: one two-page plate). Both volumes good and...	Literature, Natural History, Science, Medicine and Technology, Travel and Topography	£300.00
William Lamb Epilogue to the Comedy of the Fashionable Friends Performed at Strawberry Hill 1801 `(later Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister, 1779-1848), 4pp., 4to, (2pp., of text, 44 lines), not bound,2 stab marks, printed by J. Barfield, Wardour St, Soho, nr fine. It opens, "Ah e'er I sail for Naples to attend/ The last sad moments of my dearest friend . . .. This was the Epilogue to the ill-...	Literature, Music and Theatre	£40.00
William Lathrop Kingsley (1824-1896), proprietor and editor of the 'New Englander and Yale Review' Autograph Letter Signed ('Wm. L. Kingsley') to 'Mr. <Dekler?>'. 8vo: 4 pp. Good. Difficult handwriting. He wants him to keep the cheque, which he considers 'only a compromise between our different expectations'. 'I know that you deserve the larger sum that you spoke of - but it is a tight squeeze to make the & expenses for the year of the New Englander...	Book Trade History, Literature	£56.00