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Advertisement, in the form of an illustration, for the magazine 'It: a comic perennial, in prose and verse'.

Author: 
Alfred Crowquill' (Alfred Henry Forrester, 1804-1872), comic writer and illustrator [Punch; Effingham Wilson]
Publication details: 
Published (every Month) by Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange.' [1834?]
£120.00

One page. Dimensions of illustration roughly seven and a half inches by five and a half wide. A frail survival, aged and creased, but with illustration clear and complete. Glue stains from previous mounting on rear. Unusual and striking illustration, consisting of grotesque caricatures of two men - the first tall and thin and in tartan trousers, carrying the letter I, and the second a dwarf in riding boots and cap, carrying the letter T.

Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Lady Honora'.

Author: 
Kenneth Alexander Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham
Publication details: 
No 56 Jermyn Street | April 15th 1838'.
£36.00

General and courtier (1767-1845). Three pages, 12mo. Folded twice. Good, but on discoloured, lightly creased paper. Difficult hand. Regarding the 'Talents & Acquirements' of a certain 'Captain Spiller'. 'I am much obliged to you for your kind Enquiries after Lady Howard, she is now on her Road to Yorkshire from Bath, where she has recently been.' Signed 'Howard'. Postscript: 'I only came to Town on Tuesday Evening. I will mention Captain Spiller to Lord Morpeth in the hopes that it may be of some avail.'

£ S. D.; or, pounds, shillings, and pence, still retained; a plan for the decimalization of British coinage.

Author: 
Baron Louis Benas [decimalization]
Publication details: 
London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. 1868.
£85.00

Octavo. 22 pages. Unbound pamphlet. Twelve leaves. Stitched as issued. Good, though grubby, and with some damage to blank last leaf. Scarce: only four copies on COPAC.

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