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[W. Harrison Ainsworth.] Proof from the Bentley archives of advertisement leaves for Part II of his novel 'Jack Sheppard' (with illustration by George Cruikshank), and 'The Tower of London' (to be published in 'Bentley's Miscellany') and 'Guy Fawkes'

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[W. Harrison Ainsworth; George Cruikshank; Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, bookseller and publisher; Thomas Brettell, Rupert Street, Haymarket, printer]
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London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. Dated 'New Burlington Street, Dec. 6.' [i.e. London, 1839] 'The Tower of London' is announced for publication from 'January 1st [1840]'.
£80.00

2pp., 12mo. Printed side by side on one side of a piece of 23 x 29cm wove paper, with blank reverse. In fair condition on aged and dusty paper. The left-hand page is headed 'NEW BURLINGTON STREET, Dec. 6', and has the slug at the foot: 'PRINTED BY T. BRETTELL, RUPERT STREET, HAYMARKET, LONDON.' It advertises the forthcoming publication in 'Bentley's Miscellany' of two titles.

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Autograph Letter Signed ('M. F. T.') to his printer Thomas Brettell, 25 Rupert Street, Haymarket, London.

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Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889), English poet [P. T. Barnum; John Leech; Thomas Brettell; Henry William Pickersgill]
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Undated, but docketed 'Jan. 31 1851'.
£75.00

12mo: 2 pp. 28 lines. Good, on lightly aged paper, with unobtrusive small spike hole and traces of mounts adhering to four corners. Interesting animated letter between a Victorian author and his printer. Relates to Tupper's 'A hymn for All Nations; translated into thirty languages; nearly fifty versions; the music composed expressly by S. Sebastian Wesley.' (1851). Asks his printer to 'Attend to Hymn as within' (not present). 'We cannot help all this trouble'. Tupper has written to Dr Gavassi, but has had no answer: 'get Rossetti's as soon as you can.

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