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[The British Archaeological Association; Thomas Crofton Croker; Charles Roach Smith; Thomas Joseph Pettigrew]

[Printed 'Resolutions' of the British Archaeological Association, written following 'dissensions' within the Association in 1845; with printed tickets of admission.

£100.00 The British Archaeological Association
[West Indies Touring Cricket Team 1928]

[Page from Autograph Album] Signatures of all 17 members of the West Indies Cricket Team touring UK in 1928

£280.00 [West Indies Touring Cricket Team 1928]
Gertrude Mary Ireland Blackburne (b.1861), author, daughter of John Ireland Blackburne (1817-1893), M.P. for South-West Lancashire, 1875-1885 [James Payne; Charlotte Yonge; Richard Monckton Milnes]

Autograph Letter Signed from the Victorian author Gertrude Mary Ireland Blackburne ('Gertrude M Ireland Blackburne'), to 'Mr. Parker', concerning autographs, including those of Charlotte Yonge and James Payne.

£85.00 Letter Signed from the Victorian author Gertrude Mary Ireland Blackburne
Stephen Manton [Stephen Manton Bradbury] (1908-1970), operatic tenor, director of the Intimate Opera Company from 1944 [British Broadcasting Corporation; BBC]

Archive of material, mainly comprising 150 Typed Letters addressed to the English operatic tenor Stephen Manton [Stephen Manton Bradbury], from the British Broadcasting Corporation, between 1944 and 1952, and concerning his work for the BBC.

£350.00
[An album of strikingly original illustrations of teddy bears]

Anonymous album containing 29 quarto pages of superior ink drawings of teddy bears and other stuffed toys in cartoonish and anthropomorphic style.

4to album, with the 29 pages of drawings on 28 leaves (on the rectos, except on one leaf, where they are on both sides). The album gives evidence of having been re-used, but gives no evidence as to the identity of the artist. While the covers of the album are worn, with the spine becoming...

£250.00 An album of strikingly original illustrations of teddy bears
Edward Jeffrey (1898-1978) [Sheila Hodgetts (b.1924), author of the 'Toby Twirl' series of children's books]

Seventeen halftone metal printing blocks, with wooden backs, of illustrations by Edward Jeffrey to Sheila Hodgetts's series of 'Toby Twirl' children's books, with one of the plates signed in type by Jeffrey.

Each of the seventeen metal halftone printing blocks is roughly 10 cm square, and nailed to a mahogany block (roughly 10 x 10 x 2 cm). Each carries a number, in the bottom left-hand corner when printed: 7, 8, 9, 15 (two), 16 (two), 25, 27, 36, 38 (two), 39, 54, 56, 59, 60. (Three of the numbers...

£495.00
[Costume designs for the 1934 production of 'Josephine' by J. M. Barrie, at His Majesty's Theatre, London] [Lady Helen Beerbohm Tree; George Grossmith Jnr; Lyn Harding; Spencer Trevor; Allan Jeayes]

Original coloured illustrations of Napoleonic costume designs for the 1934 production at His Majesty's Theatre, London, of J. M. Barrie's play 'Josephine' [Lady Helen Beerbohm Tree; George Grossmith Jnr; Lyn Harding; Spencer Trevor; Allan Jeayes].

Twelve pages of illustrations, each on a separate leaf. Seven are portrait folio, four are portrait 8vo, and one is landscape 8vo. All clear and complete, on aged and creased paper. All coloured in watercolour. The seven folio portraits are: Napoleon as First Consul; Talma; Eugene; Moustache ('...

£350.00 Costume designs for the 1934 production of 'Josephine' by J. M. Barrie, at His M
[John Gibb (1776-1850), Scottish civil engineer, deputy to Thomas Telford (1757-1834), founder member of the Institution of Civil Engineers; Cullen Harbour, Banffshire, Scotland]

Manuscript copy, 1819, of the 'Specification of the proposed Catch Pier for Cullen Harbour' by the civil engineer John Gibb [for Thomas Telford]; with original signed certification by commissioners John Smith, James Gray and William Minto of Cullen.

Folio, 3 pp. Bifolium. On paper with 1818 watermark of Joseph Colles. Docketed, lengthwise on reverse of second leaf, 'Copy | Specification of Catch Pier at Cullen Harbour by John Gibb | 1819.' 46 lines of text. Clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, with two punch holes for a ring binder in...

£500.00 John Gibb (1776-1850), Scottish civil engineer, deputy to Thomas Telford
[The Westbury Charities] [J. E. Severne, Chairman; R. D. Bromley, Vice-Chairman; W. R. Croft, Clerk; of the Parish Council of Westbury]

[Printed pamphlet.] Catalogue of the Westbury Charities. 1896.

12mo, 8 pp. Stapled. In original grey printed wraps. Text clear and complete. On aged paper and in spotted wraps. Printed on the inside of the front wrap is the following: 'A Catalogue and description of the Charities belonging to the Parish of Westbury, in the County of Salop, compiled by order...

£75.00 Catalogue of the Westbury Charities
Charles Knight, London publisher; Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch (1779-1857), German painter, artist and draughtsman; William Shakespeare

Twenty-four original outline lithographic illustrations to Shakespeare: a series of twelve anonymous ones to 'The Tempest', published in London in 1825 by Charles Knight; and a series of twelve by Moritz Retzsch to 'Macbeth'.

All twenty-four illustrations have been laid down on leaves removed from an album of prints. Both series are numbered to twelve, and each is complete. The plates in the Retzsch series appear to have had their margins cropped. All images clear and complete, on lightly-aged paper, with occasional...

£495.00 Twenty-four original outline lithographic illustrations to Shakespeare
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