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Autograph Letter Signed "George Halse", sculptor etc, to George Gurney, artist, with news of holiday and his new work (short stories illus. Phiz))

Author: 
George Halse, artist, sculptor and writer.
Publication details: 
[Printed] 15 Clarendon Road, Notting Hill, W. [London], 21 Oct. 1882.
£56.00

Three pages, 12mo, bifolium, sl. staining ( remnants of laying down process on album leaf), good condition. He has sent a copy of his latest book to Gurney ("A Salad of Stray Leaves" (pub. 1882), with illustrations by his friend Phiz, Hablot K. Browne, who died in the year of publication). It's "to be published on Monday. | I find so little todo with the chisel that I am fain to employ my pen." The family is holidaying in Margate, and the air is having a beneficial effect on his son's health.

Manuscript describing 'rough idea' of a projected Victorian periodical.

Author: 
Charles Henry Ross (1842?-1897), editor of the magazine 'Judy' [Hablot Knight Brown ('Phiz'); Charles Dickens]
Publication details: 
[On 1870s illustrated letterhead of the ' "Judy" Office, 73 Fleet Street, London, - 187[ ]'.
£450.00

Three pages on octavo bifolium. On creased, aged paper with pinholes and a little staining at head, but with text clear and entire. An interesting and intriguing document, docketed 'Rough idea of title.' The intention is to produce a 24-page magazine the size of Dickens's 'All the Year Round', to be priced at sixpence. 'Two pictures only - One on cover under title to be changed every week by Phiz - Large two page picture in centre to be hand coloured.

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