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['The Brown-Campbell Crusade against the Educational Department for Upper Canada' (George Brown; James Campbell); Augustus Egerton Ryerson; John Lovell; Thomas Nelson; the Montreal Globe] Full title: '[Printed item.] The School Book Question: Letters in reply to the Brown-Campbell Crusade against the Educational Department for Upper Canada: with copious notes, further illustrating and confirming what is contained in letters, and refuting various other misstatements which have... |
£180.00 | |
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'By the Superintendent of Schools for Upper Canada [Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (1803-1882)]' 72pp., 12mo. With four fold-out tables. Stitched. No covers. With labels and shelfmark of the Education Department Reference Library, London (one of which, on the title-page, covers the words 'Printed by order of the Legislative Assembly.'). On aged and worn paper. The report proper covers pp.4-... |
£120.00 | |
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Kenneth Macmillan (1929-1992), Scottish ballet dancer and choreographer, artistic director of the Royal Ballet, 1970-1977 [Yolanda Sonnabend (b.1935), theatre designer and portrait painter] Thirteen of the fourteen photographs are in black and white, with the largest 21.5 x 15.5 cm (with slight paint staining at edge), another 17.5 x 12.5 cm, and the other nine roughly 12.5 x 9 cm. The other print is a colour polaroid, with paint smudges from Sonnabend's portrait on the white mount... |
£280.00 | |
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Charles L. Dodgson [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898) of Christ Church, Oxford, 'Lewis Carroll'] [Henry Parry Liddon (1829-90), Canon of St Pauls; women's B.A. degrees, University of Oxford, 1896] 3pp., 8vo. The second page mispaginated '(3)'. Bifolium. One punch hole to top inner corner of each leaf (for the attaching of the item to others), affecting two words of text, pencil shelfmarks and the number '16.' in red ink at head of first page. Lightly creased on aged paper, with three... |
£3,500.00 | |
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Edward Marsh [Sir Edward Howard Marsh (1872-1953)], editor of 'Georgian Poetry' [Harold Monro (1879-1932), proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop, London; Rupert Brooke; Walter de la Mare; D. H. Lawrence] [10] + 244 + [2]pp., 8vo, consisting of sixteen loose signatures, unstitched and unbound, wrapped in a piece of green paper on which is written in pencil 'Group 2 | Special'. Very good, on lightly-aged 'Holbein' wove paper. Each signature with uncut edges, and with only the first four of the... |
£1,250.00 | |
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[Various authors] The 50 items described below are part of what The Times (4 March 1896) described as 'the paper warfare' surrounding the Oxford University vote, on 3 and 10 March 1896, on the admission of women to the B.A. degree, a controversy which left the Oxford air, according to the Spectator (7 March 1896... |
£1,800.00 | |
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Lena P. Christitch [France; emancipation of women] [Printed booklet, inscribed by the author.] L'Armée du Cœur our Le Rôle de la Femme. 63pp., 12mo. In grey printed wraps. Stapled. In good condition, lightly-aged and worn. With Stamp, label and shelfmarks of the Board of Education Reference Library. Inscribed on inside of front cover: 'A titre de profonde considération | Lena P. Christitch'. Written in flowery language, with the... |
£120.00 | |
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Eliseo Mattiacci (b.1940), Italian artist and sculptor [Giuliano Briganti, Bruno Cora, Gillo Dorfles; Prada, Milan; PradaMilanoArte; Yolanda Sonnabend (b.1935), theatre designer] 88pp., 8vo. Stylishly-designed art book by Giuliano Briganti, Bruno Cora and Gillo Dorfles, primarily in black and white, but with sections in half-tone blue and brown. In colour covers with flaps. Italian and English text. Inscribed on half titled 'A. Y SONNABEND. | Eliseo Mattiacci'. In good... |
£130.00 | |
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Elisabeth Frink [Elizabeth Jean Frink] (1930-1993), English sculptor and printmaker [Yolanda Sonnaband (b.1935), theatre designer and portrait painter; Typography Froshaug] Both items on aged and lightly-worn paper. ONE: Invitation. Printed postcard, addressed on reverse to 'Mrs Molanda [sic] Sonnaband, | 30, Hamilton Terrace, | N.W.8.' Tastefully designed, in sans-serif font, the card reads: 'Elisabeth Frink | Basil Jonzen requests the honour of your company at... |
£120.00 | |
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[Illustrirte Monatshefte für Familienglück, weibliche Bildung und Humanitätsbestrebungen, Dresden] [Women's educational associations in Germany] [Printed offprint in German.] Aufforderung an die Frauen zur Gründung von Erziehungs-Vereinen. 8pp., 4to. The final page carrying an advertisement for the magazine. On worn and aged paper, with stamp, labels and shelfmark of the Education Department Reference Library [Educational Museum]. Scarce: no copies found on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat. |
£45.00 |
