FORDHAM

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[Two printed items.] 'Correct Detail of the Ceremonies attending the Shakspearean Gala, celebrated at Stratford-upon-Avon' and 'Ode upon dedicating the Town Hall, and erecting a Statue to Shakspeare, during the Jubilee at Stratford-upon-Avon.

Author: 
J. Jarvis, Reporter to the London Journals [John Bacon; The Shakespearian Gala, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1827; Garrick's Jubilee, 1769; Hallam Fordham]
Publication details: 
First item ('Correct Detail'): Stratford-upon-Avon: Printed for, and published by, J. Bacon, Chapel-street; and by J. Onwhyn, Catherine-street, Strand, London. [1827.] Second item ('Ode'): Stratford-upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakspearean Press. 1827.
£235.00

Both items bound together in nineteenth-century worn brown-cloth 8vo binding, with 'THE JUBILEE 1827' in gilt on the spine. Ownership inscription on front pastedown of the actor and theatrical writer Hallam Fordham, dated Oxford 1942. ONE: Full title: 'Correct Detail of the Ceremonies attending the Shakspearean Gala, celebrated at Stratford-upon-Avon, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, April 23, 24, and 25, 1827; Together with some Account of "Garrick's Jubilee," in 1769; By J.

Autograph Note in the third person from the botanist and archaeologist Charles Cardale Babington, thanking 'Miss Barnard' [Alicia Mildred Barnard] for a list of 'plants found near Royston'.

Author: 
Charles Cardale Babington (1808-1895), botanist and archaeologist [Alicia Mildred Barnard (1825-1911), Norwich botanist; Henry Fordham (1803-1894), botanist]
Publication details: 
St John's College, Cambridge. 25 October 1859.
£45.00

1p., 12mo. In fair condition, on aged paper, with minor traces of glue from mount still adhering. Numbered at head in manuscript. The message reads: 'Mr. Charles C. Babington presents his compliments to Miss Barnard and begs to thank her for the very full list of plants found near Royston which she has so kindly sent to him through the hands of Mr. Fordham.'

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