HANSON

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Autograph album of the fashionable Knightsbridge booksellers Truslove & Hanson, containing more than three hundred of signatures of authors and literary figures, written over a period of more than sixty years.

Author: 
[Truslove & Hanson, Knightsbridge booksellers; Bowes & Bowes; W. H. Smith & Sons; Rudyard Kipling; Hilaire Belloc; Dick Francis; Edith Sitwell; Dorothy L. Sayers]
Publication details: 
London. Dating from before 1924 to 1987.
£2,500.00

8vo landscape album, 21 x 26 cm. Morocco leather binding. Marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. 'TRUSLOVE & HANSON' stamped on the front board in gilt. Internally good, sound and tight; in fair binding with wear to hinges and corners and minor damp staining. Truslove & Hanson was always a fashionable bookshop, placing an emphasis on presentation. It was acquired by W. H. Smith & Son in 1923; the same firm acquired the Cambridge booksellers Bowes & Bowes in 1953.

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