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Author, Title, Summary Subject Price
Autograph Letter Signed ('R. S. Lauder') from the Scottish historical painter Robert Scott Lauder to the Liverpool painter W. G. Herdman, regarding to the sending to Edinburgh of one of his pictures, with another by his brother James Eckford Lauder.

1p., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with thin strip from mount adhering to blank reverse. Addressed to 'W. G. Herdman Esqr. | Liverpool'. If his brother's picture ('Mr J. E. Lauder') and his own 'are not by this time sent off'', he would like this done immediately, 'as they must be in Edinh...

£65.00
Autograph Letter Signed ('W. Fawkes') from the Yorkshire MP Walter Fawkes to the London cartographer and map seller William Faden, sending good wishes on his retirement, and requesting maps for his 'beautiful collection' from his successor.

1p., 4to. Bifolium, with address ('Mr. Faden. Charing Cross. London'.) on reverse of second leaf, from which the seal has been cut away. He begins by informing Faden that his servant will call to pay his bill. 'I wish you would desire Mr. Wyld [James Wyld the elder (1790-1836)] your successor to...

£60.00
Emil Otto Hoppé (1878-1972), photographer.

Autograph Letter Signed 'E.O. Hoppé' to Robert Lynd, essayist and Irish Nationalist.

ALS, on letterhead of Millais House, Cromwell Place, South Kensington; 22 June 1915. He is glad he 'liked the parboils - it was a great pleasure to me to make them'. Asks him to accept two copies: 'I have a library of signed Author's Copies and if you can spare me a copy of one of your admirable...

£120.00
John Coates (1865-1941), leading English tenor

Autograph Letter Signed from John Coates to Miss Hood, explaining why he could not sing the song 'Nancy's Hair' at Preston.

2pp., 4to. In good condition, on lightly aged and creased paper. He writes that he is sorry that he could not sing the song 'Nancy's Hair' at Preston. He had not brought it: '(I only got your letter on arrival at the concert hall.) Funnily enough I picked it up before leaving home to put in my...

£65.00
Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn (1816-1854), English soldier and Conservative Member of Parliament for King's Lynn, Norfolk,1842-1854

[Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn.] Autograph Address 'To the Independent Electors of the Borough of King's Lynn', signed 'Jocelyn'.

2pp., 12mo. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. Headed 'To the Independent Electors of the Borough of King's Lynn' and beginning: 'Gentlemen, | I have canvassed the constituency of your Town as an Independent candidate who as your representative supported in the last Parliament the...

History £56.00
H. W. Nevinson (1856-1941), journalist and war correspondent.

Five Autograph Letters Signed HWN [H.W. Nevinson] to Robert Lynd, essayist and Irish Nationalist

5 ALsS, total 8pp., 12mo.One, on letterhead of 4 Downside Crescent, Hampstead; 'Tuesday' [December 1908]. Concerning Nevinson's sacking as a Daily News journalist following his heckling of the Liberal Chancellor Lloyd George at a meeting in December 1908 in which the Daily News editor Gardiner...

£950.00
James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), Labour Party, Prime Minister (1924).

Autograph Letter Signed 'J. Ramsay Macdonald' to Robert Lynd

ALS, on House of Commons letterhead; 11 May 1923, 2pp., 12mo, fair condition. 'Some of my folks are mildly expostulating with me for reviewing for the Daily News on account of the hostility it is showing to us - perhaps rather by the way of depreciation than of attack, and perhaps it is not...

£100.00
Sir Evelyn John Ruggles-Brise (1857-1935), Principal Private Secretary to four British Home Secretaries, prison reformer [Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty; Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff; Borstal]

[Sir Evelyn John Ruggles-Brise, Principal Private Secretary to Home Secretary Henry Matthews.] Autograph Letter Signed ('E. Ruggles Brise') to [Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty] regarding an application for his brother to be appointed a stipendiary magistrate.

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed to 'A. S. Gatty'. Matthews has asked Ruggles Brise to acknowledge Gatty's letter, and to say 'that he will be happy to bear your brother's name in mind: but Bradford have not applied for the appointment of a fresh Stipendiary'. Sir...

Social history £35.00
[Charles, Évêque de Bayeux]

[Printed] Mandement de Monseigneur L'Évêque de Bayeux, pour le Carême de 1836

13pp., 4to, unbound as issued, faint spotting, mainly good condition. Attractive printing. No other copy found on COPAC, WorldCat or BnF

French, Religion £56.00
Ray Davies, songwriter-singer, of The Kinks

[Ray Davies] Photograph of Davies at Fen Farm where he was a tutor at some summer courses (song-writing)

ONE, c.12.5 x 18cm, col., Davies in full at doorway smiling at camera, inscribed in scrawl on reverse by him "This is not me | R Davies"

Social history £75.00