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[Arthur Henry Brandt of Ivy House, Godstone, Surrey.] Manuscript 'Visitors Book Ivy House', containing signatures and other entries by visitors to the house.

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Arthur Henry Brandt (1855-1923) of Ivy House, Godstone, Surrey, merchant banker [Sir H.D.G. Leveson-Gower, England cricket captain; Magda Boetticher; Sir Clive Loehnis; Otto Koellreutter, Nazi jurist]
Publication details: 
Ivy House, Godstone, Surrey. Entries dating from between 1905 and 1916.
£450.00
Ivy House

46pp., 4to. In attractive honey-coloured velvet cloth binding with 20 x 14 cm panel of old embroidery set into cover, decorative endpapers, and all edges gilt. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, in worn binding. An illuminated title-page carries the following poem: 'To Hospitality, this book we dedicate, | To Ivy House - and all whose happy fate | Leads them to bide awhile beneath its roof.

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Autograph Letter Signed from the journalist and author Peter Bayne to an unnamed recipient, stating that he cannot try his hand 'on Byron or Browning [...] without more chance of continuous work'.

Author: 
Peter Bayne [pseud. Ellis Brandt] (1830-1896), English journalist and author
Publication details: 
33 St. Julian's Road, Kilburn, London N.W. 30 November 1881.
£45.00

1p., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. The letter reads: 'My Dear Sir, | I ought to have thanked you sooner for your kind note of the 21st., but I have been much occupied. It would be pleasant for me to try my hand on Byron or Browining, but I could not dare do so without more chance of continuous work than I can hope for at present.'

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