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[Printed catalogue.] Illustrated Particulars, Plan and Conditions of Sale of the Delightful Freehold Estate known as Aber-Artro, Llanbedr, in the County of Merionethshire. For sale by auction by Harrods Ltd.

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[Charles Edward Bateman (1863-1947), arts and crafts architect of Aber-Artro Hall, Llanbedr, Vale of Artro, Merionethshire, Wales; Harrods of London]
Publication details: 
At the Mart, Tokenhouse Yard, London, E.C., on Tuesday, August 1st, 1916, at Two o'clock. Auctioneer's Offices Brompton Road, S.W.
£180.00

[ii] + 21pp., 4to. With a further eight pages of plates on shiny art paper. Internally in fair condition on aged pages, in discoloured and damaged wraps. With a few light pencil notes. Stitched with thick red thread into binding designed to look like a large envelope, complete with flap with fake red seal. A luxurious production, with fine photographic views of the building, which still stands, and is counted one of the finest in Wales.

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Autograph Letter Signed to 'R. Steggall' [perhaps the organist Reginald Steggall].

Author: 
James Orton, English Victorian poet
Publication details: 
12 May 1875; 86 Usher Road, Old Ford, London.
£56.00

12mo, 4 pp. Good, with spotting to second leaf of bifolium. Steggall and Orton's 'mutual friend (our very dear friend)' Mrs. Kent has written to tell Orton that Steggall 'will be happy to see my son on Saturday evening at 6'. Orton is grateful to Steggall for thinking 'of my anxiety to retain him with me after our long & to me at least terrible separation'. He is very grateful to Steggall, who is joined to Orton by a 'link of friendship which passes through to my two dear friends Mrs. Kent and Mrs. Atherstone'.

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