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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Anonymous [Walter Crane; Rumbling Bridge, Perth and Kinross, Scotland; Marlee House, Blairgowrie; Kinloch Manse (now the Old Pastorie)] [Finely-printed anonymous handbill poem, with headpiece attributed to Walter Crane - pencil note.] Impromptu. Rumbling Bridge, September 17, 1892. 4pp., 12mo. Printed in brown on cream laid paper. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. 58 lines in 13 stanzas. Headpiece attributed to Crane in pencil at head of first page, and clearly his (central figure of Diana, with reapers on either side). The first stanza reads: 'I'll rede ye a lay of a goodly...		£220.00
Harold Pyott ['Tiny Tim'] (1887-1937) of Stockport, 'The English Midget' and 'Britain's smallest man' [Printed handbill.] Life History of Harold Pyott (The English Midget). Tom Thumb the Second. The Smallest Adult Human Being in Existence.' Including a copy of his birth certificate. 4pp., 16mo (11 x 16.5 cm). Fair, on aged and lightly-creased paper. Appropriately brief and dimutive biography (35 lines), describing Piyott (erroneously) as 'undoubtedly the smallest adult human being ever known to live'. Followed by 'Copy of Birth Certificate of the Smallest Man on Earth' in...		£120.00
Eddison, Yalor & Booth, Mill & Machinery Auctioneers & Valuers, Huddersfield. [Bound typescript] Valuation of Mill & Machinery [Messrs Broadhead & Graves Limited, Kirkheaton, Nr Huddersfield.] Binding full soft leather, gilt, 100pp., fol., with plan and small additions, minor wear, good condition. Minute detail from buildings to filtration plant. The additional slips (a small number) give information about sales (one for "Pulled out")..		£280.00
Edward Clare [The Ethiopian Serenaders; Blackface; Minstrel Show] Decorative title-leaf of the sheet music of 'Lucy Neal, Sung with rapturous applause by Messrs. Sweeney and Barlow, in their vocal delineations of Nigger Life, and by the Ethiopian Serenaders, arranged and partly composed by Edward Clare.' A loose 8vo leaf, roughly 26.5 x 19.5cm. In fair condition, on aged paper, with the edges strengthened with cream paper strips. The cover is decoratively printed, in a variety of types and point sizes. Priced at two shillings, and stated to be entered at Stationers' Hall. At the foot of the page...		£120.00
[Charles Jameson Grant (fl.1830-1852), English caricaturist [John Kendrick, of Sidney-alley, and of No. 54, Leicester- square, printseller] Two hand-coloured lithographic issues of Charles Jameson Grant's 'Every Body's Album & Caricature Magazine' (nos. 6 and 16), including caricatures on 'The Trades Unions. A General Strike.' Grant's work has been undergoing a reappraisal of late. According to his entry in the Oxford DNB, 'Every Body's Album' forms a 'substantial body of work, using the tonal qualities of lithography in an extremely subtle manner, and constituting some of his finest work in the medium. The series...		£180.00
[Daniel Defoe; Darton and Harvey, London children's booksellers and publishers; Joseph Rickerby, Printer, Sherbourn Lane] [Children's book by Darton and Harvey] The Voyages and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: who was Shipwrecked on the Coast of America, and cast ashore on an uninhabited Island, where he resided twenty-eight years. Written by himself. 45 + [ii] pp. Frontispiece. Two pages of advertisements of the firm's books at end. In original pink printed boards with further advertisements for the firm on back. Lightly-aged in worn boards with wear to spine. Scarce: no copy of this 1837 Darton & Harvey edition on COPAC, which lists...		£250.00
[Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School and Garvald School, Dolphinton, Peeblesshire (Rudolf Steiner Educational Association, Scotland)] 41 items of ephemera relating to the Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School and Garvald School, Dolphinton, Peeblesshire (Rudolf Steiner Educational Association, Scotland), with manuscript and typed accounts and mounted photograph. From the papers of the nuclear physicist Robert Kersey Green. The collection contains periodicals, advertisements, handbills, prospectuses (one damp damaged), reports, form, invitations, two cards and a ticket. In fair condition, on aged paper, and with a couple of items carrying traces of damp...		£220.00
[Evelyn Paul, illustrator; Liberty & Co., department store, London and Paris] [Promotional pamphlet.] A Hindu Calendar. [With twelve tipped-in colour plates of illustrations by Evelyn Paul.] 28pp., 8vo. Letterpress printed in green and brown on thick grey paper; plates in full colour. Unbound and without stitching, leaving the seven bifoliums of the pamphlet loose. Worn and aged, but with plates in good condition (two with slight dogearing to one corner). A pencil note states that...		£120.00
[Georgian song book; Cluer Dicey & Co., London publishers; 'George Seghious'; 'The Black's Lamentation'; slavery] [Printed Georgian pamphlet of song lyrics, not in ESTC.] The Gentleman's Concert. Being A Choice Collection of Favourite Songs. Containing, [twenty numbered song titles, including '15. I am a poor black, it is true.' The full drophead title, beneath a headpiece of three lions in folliage, reads: The Gentleman's CONCERT. \| BEING \| A Choice Collection of Favourite SONGS. \| Containing, \| [following 10 lines in left-hand of two columns] 1. Where's my swain so blyth and clever \| 2. To an arbour of woodbines. \| 3...		£280.00
Alexander J. Murray, solicitor, 1 Clement's Inn, London [Hanbury; Thomas Gibson Bowles (1841-1922), editor of the London society magazine 'Vanity Fair', founded by him in 1868] Itemised manuscript account of 'Mr. Alexr. J. Murray's Charges in relation to the Sale to Mr. Hanbury of 1/18th. Share in "Vanity Fair"'. 5pp., foolscap 8vo. Attached with green ribbon. The sale was a protracted affair, and the detailed nature of these accounts may be due to Murray's desire to justify his charges of £22 1s 6d. The first entry reads: '1881 \| Novr. 1st. Attending Mr. Bowles on his calling and receiving his...		£600.00