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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
William T. Palmer, Editor of the Journal of The Fell & Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District Autograph Note Signed "William T. Palmer", The Fell & Rock Climbing Club, to a "Mr Smith", about the 'Journal'. One pager, fold marks, minor defects not affecting text. "Dear Mr. Smith, \| The 'Journal' is in preparation, but will be greatly delayed this year. I will notify you later. \| Yours faithfully, \| William T. Palmer \| Editor".		£56.00
Micheal Mac Liamoir [Michael Mac'Liamoir; Micheál Mac Liammóir] (1899-1978), Irish actor, dramatist, impresario, writer, poet and painter Autograph Letter Signed to "Deidre [Dolly Lynd, sister of essayist, Robert Lynd]. IN IRISH. about Irish affairs including the degrading death of Michael Collins. With original envelope on which Robert Lynd's daughter, Maire Gaster, gives backg.round. 6pp., 4to, good condition, IN IRISH, translation as follows: "(On top) Write to me soon! \|\|Deirdre, my dear friend – I was delighted to receive your letter. Thank you very much. Forgive me for not writing much earlier: we are all greatly upset here over the deaths of Arthur Griffith and Michael...	Literature, Music and Theatre	£1,500.00
Jessie M. King, illustrator and artist Original comic watercolour, elf-like child chasing rabbits through woodland, with toadstools in foreground. Watercolour, c. 23 x 9.5cm, inscribed "FOR ELIZABETH .... FRON. JESSIE.M. KING". It was the centre-pages of a small autpograph album belonging to Elizabthe Hood, daughter of J. C. F. Hood, sometime Chaplain of HM Forces, and Helen Patuffa Hood, née Kennedy-Fraser, noted collector of Hebridean...		£1,600.00
William Etty (1787-1849), English painter [William Benjamin Sarsfield Taylor (1781-1850), Irish artist, curator of the St Martin's Lane Academy; Charles Sibley, artist] [William Etty, artist.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Wm Etty.'), addressed both 'To Messrs Taylor and Sibley' and 'To the Curators of the St Martins Lane Academy', regarding his room there. 1p., 4to. Aged and creased, mounted in windowpane on leaf removed from album. He writes: 'Gentlemen, \| I beg leave to inform you, that I shall not have occasion for the Room I have taken at the St. Martins Lane Model Academy, after Michaelás Day next in the present year.' For more information on...	Art and Architecture	£80.00
[Victorian homoeopathy; homoeopathic; Punch, or the London Charivari] [Printed offprint from Punch.] The ill-used Homoeopathists. 1p.,12mo. Fifty-three lines of small type. Good, on lightly-aged and ruckled paper, with traces of mount on blank reverse. The item begins: 'MR. PUNCH is accustomed to receive letter and treaties, imploring him not to call homoeopathy fudge, and some of them attempting to assign reasons why he...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£80.00
[Victorian photographs of folk costume of Brittany; Cornish weddings; customs] [Album of black and white photographs.] Souvenir de Bretagne. Les Noces en Cornouailles. Étude des différents costumes de Fête. The album is landscape, 13 x 19 cm. Internally clean on lightly-aged paper, stapled into worn and spotted printed covers. It contains 26 photographs (10 full-page and 16 half-page), on 18 leaves separated by tissue guards, a mixture of indoor and outdoor scenes, and some posed. Images include: '...	Travel and Topography	£220.00
[Ballantyne Press; Walter Scott] [Booklet; Ballantyne Press] Edinburgh Exhibitiuon 1886 \| Printing as in the Olden Time at the Ballantyne Press Olde Streete \| CATALOGUE Booklet, [16pp., 16mo, inc. paper covers. foxing, mainly good condition. Two copies listed on COPAC, Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland.	Literature, Printing History	£95.00
Joseph William Allen (1803-1852), landscape painter, President of Society of British Artists and drawing master of City of London School [his pupil Edward John Cobbett (1815-1899); Liscard Hall] [Joseph William Allen, landscape painter.] Autograph Letter Signed ('J. W. Allen') to his pupil the artist Edward John Cobbett 2pp., 4to. Aged and creased, mounted in windowpane on leaf removed from album. Liscard Hall was built for the former Mayor of Liverpool and slave-ship captain Sir John Tobin. Allen writes that since arriving there he has 'painted too little subjects', and that he has 'a wish' to 'leave them...	Art and Architecture	£120.00
K. M. Briggs [Katharine Mary Briggs] (1898-1980), English folklorist, author of the Dictionary of English Folk-Tales [Capricornus press, Dunkeld, Perthshire] [Printed booklet by K. M. Briggs.] Stories Arranged for Mime \| By K. M. Briggs \| Number 1 \| The Golden Goose [16]pp., 12mo. Stapled. In green printed wraps with illustration on cover. In very good condition, very lightly-aged with slight rusting to the two staples. The thirteen Capricornus items on COPAC indicate that the press was connected with K. M. Briggs, or at least with her family, who had moved...	Literature	£65.00
May Laffan [Hartley] (1849–1916), Irish novelist. [Typed] Memorandum of an Agreement.... Signed "May Laffan", Irish novelist, agreementy with publishers, Henry S. KIng, concerning her novel "Hogan, M.P.". One page, sm. fol., sl. chipped and damp-affected but text legible (see scan on my website).		£150.00