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[Printed booklet, with photographic illustrations.] The Mount Pleasant Artists' Rest Home. Rickmansworth. Hertfordshire. Founded 1929.

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[The Mount Pleasant Artists' Rest Home, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, founded in 1929 by the artist Francis William Reckitt (1860-1932), 'as a Convalescent Rest Home for [...] male artists'
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[The Mount Pleasant Artists' Rest Home, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.] Undated. [Circa 1929.]
£100.00

15pp., landscape 12mo. With four additional pages of photographic plates ('Exterior facing south', 'The lounge', 'The dining room', 'A bedroom'). Stitched into grey printed wraps. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. The booklet includes a list of trustees and other officers, a descriptive text, the 'Regulations relating to the home', 'Form of application' (with two pages of 'rules', including 'CASES NOT ADMITTED') and 'Medical Report'. The descriptive text begins: 'The Home has been built and generously endowed by Mr. F. W.

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[Victorian cricket ephemera; The Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Brotherhood Cricket Club.] Card printed by Cheney & Sons, carrying the 'Rules' and 'Subscription Receipt' for 'Banbury P.S.A. Cricket Club. Season 1894.'

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[Banbury P.S.A. Cricket Club [The Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Brotherhood Cricket Club], Fred Lydiatt, Treasurer; Cheney & Sons, General, Commercial & Artistic Printers, Banbury]
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Banbury P.S.A. Cricket Club. Season 1894. 'Cheney, Typ.' [i.e. Cheney & Sons, printers, Banbury Oxfordshire]
£56.00

Printed on both sides of a piece of 9 x 12.5 cm card, folded once to make a 9 x 6.25 cm bifolium, with the outer covers individual pages and the central opening a double-page spread. 4pp., 32mo (9 x 6.5cm). With shiny pink outer covers and matte white internal opening. In very good condition, very lightly aged. Tastefully printed, with the front cover within a decorative border, headed 'BANBURY | P.S.A. Cricket Club. | Season 1894.' and giving the names of the club officials, including Rev. H. Cubbon, President; Mr. Frank Lovegrove, Captain.

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