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Samuel Carter Hall [S. C. Hall] (1800-1889), journalist, editor and author Attractively produced on a piece of thin card, dimensions 17 x 11 cm. The recto of the card has a shiny, light-blue coating, on which the text and design is printed in gold and bronze. The verso is blank and white. Very good, with minor damage to the blank reverse caused by removal from mount.... |
£56.00 |
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Charles Sumner, American statesman. Part of Letter to the Secretary of the Athenaeum Club, London, J.C. Webster. Part of a letter, 11 x 5.5cm, stained but surviving text clear,as follows: (recto) "of the Athenaeum [Club] for a period of two months. | J.E. Webster Esq.". (verso) I have the honor to be, | Sir, | Your obedient servant, | Charles Sumner." |
£38.00 |
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Richard Ford, traveller in Spain. Subscription of letter Signed "Rich Ford". Part of letter, 11 x 4cm, faint staining, text illegible but clear, as follows: "I [amyrobedtSt | Rich Ford||". |
£28.00 |
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Sir William Fenwick Williams [W.F. Williams], MP, "The Hero of Kars", C in C North America during Civil War. Part of letter,14.5 x 10cm, staining but text clear as follows: (recto) "the receipt of your letter of the 10th Inst and to inform you that I have taken the steps necessary | J,C. Webster Esq."; (verso) "I have the honor to ["be" has been cut off] | Your obt. Servant ! WF Williams". The verso is... |
£38.00 |
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[Sir Herbert Croft (1751-1815), editor] 'The Literary Fly' [Christopher Etherington, bookseller, printer and typefounder, No. 25, St. Paul's Church-Yard] Two issues of 'The Literary Fly'. Both issues 8vo (roughly 30.5 x 19.5 cm), 6 pp (each a loose leaf in a bifolium). Both printed on brittle watermarked laid paper. Both unbound, and stabbed as issued, and both on aged and chipped paper, but with the text clear and entire. Each issue with the title in an expansive calligraphic... |
£100.00 |
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The Manchester Weekly Times [Victorian newspapers; nineteenth-century provincial periodicals] The main text is printed on one side of a piece of paper roughly 28 x 13.5 cm, headed 'Upwards of Thirty Thousand Copies Of the "Manchester Weekly Times," with Eight-page Literary Supplement, are Issued Every Saturday.' The main block of text, in a variety of types and point sizes, consists of... |
£56.00 |
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[the county militia in eighteenth-century England; Hanoverian English magistracy; warrant; Justice of the Peace] All four items well printed on one side of a piece of watermarked laid paper. All four lightly-aged but good. None of them filled in. The third item more dusty than the rest. Item One (15.5 x 20.5 cm): Headed 'No. VII. A PROTECTION.' To be signed by one of the 'Deputy Lieutenant, | Captain, |... |
£225.00 |
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[The East Indian Railway Company; Oudh and Rohilkhund Railway; Alice in Wonderland parody; Lewis Carroll] Printed in purple on six pages, on the rectos of six leaves, each roughly 34 x 21 cm. Three bifoliums, loosely inserted one in the other to make a pamphlet. Text neatly written and complete. Good, on aged and lightly-worn and stained paper, with the discoloration to the blank verso of the last... |
£300.00 |
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[William Ewart Gladstone; Home Rule in Ireland; English political satire] Anonymous handbill printed poem satirising Gladstone, entitled 'The Grand Old Gambler's Last Card.' Printed on one side of a piece of laid paper roughly 21 x 13.5 cm. Good, on aged and lightly-creased and spotted paper. Eighteen line poem in heroic couplets, turning on the conceit of a game of cards. Begins 'OFT have I shuffled, often played the Knave, | In vain attempts a losing game to save... |
£125.00 |
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Anna Swanwick (1813-1899), English author, feminist, and translator of Goethe, born in Liverpool Autograph Note Signed to an unnamed correspondent ("Dear Friend") One page, 12mo, asking her friend to dinner "to meet a friend from the country", fearing that "there is small chance of finding you disengaged" with such late notice. |
£36.00 |
