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[William McKinley (1843-1901), President of the United States of America] [Leon Frank Czolgosz; assassination]

Printed notice of the death of President McKinley.

Text on one side of a piece of thin card, dimensions roughly 140 x 85 mm. Mourning border on both sides. In good condition: on lightly aged card with a few scuff marks on the reverse. Text reads 'We deeply regret to have to announce that President McKinley, after getting much better up to Sept....

£85.00
[William Tooke the younger (1777-1863)] [Russia; Russian; Bloomsbury Inns of Court Association; rifle clubs; George Bramwell; private printing; St Petersburg]

Lines Drawn and ornamentally inscribed on a White Silk Riband with which [...] the Editor was decorated [...] by the Baron and Baroness Von Sass, at their seat of Tadaiken, in the Duchy of Courland, on 21st November, 1790, [...].

12mo: 8 pp. Leaf dimensions 18 x 11.5 cm. Unbound. Stitched as issued. Good, on lightly-aged paper with foxing to first page. Complete: paginated [1] to 8, and with 'Finis.' at the end. The full title reads 'Lines | Drawn and ornamentally inscribed on a White Silk Riband with which, and many...

£250.00
[Winchester College]

[Printed] Prospectus and Subscription List for the Building of The Moberley Library

Four pages, bifolium, 4to, fold marks, mainly good condition. Text comprises a letter from W.A. Fearon, Secretary to the Committee who conveys the information to subscribers that Butterfield's plans have been approved (he tendered at £2300) are available for the view of Wykehamists, giving...

£100.00
Alec Hurley [Alexander Hurley (1871-1913), music hall artiste, coster singer, and Marie Lloyd's second husband [George Le Brunn; Harry Castling; London street ballad; cockney; East End slang]

Handbill cockney street ballad entitled 'IT'S MONEY WELL LAID OUT. Sung by ALEC HURLEY.'

On one side of a piece of light-brown laid paper, dimensions roughly 240 x 125 mm. Text clear and entire, on lightly creased paper with chipping, short closed tears and loss to extremities. Crudely printed. A thirty-two line poem, arranged in four four-line stanzas, each with a different chorus...

£120.00
Charles Jameson Grant, caricaturist [George Drake, publisher, Clare Market, London; William IV; Earl Grey; Irish Church Bill, 1833]

Black and white satirical engraved cartoon by 'C J G' [Charles Jameson Grant], entitled 'The Political Drama. No. 38.', captioned 'THE TOTTERING WHIG CABINET. | THE UNNATURAL ALLIANCE OR, BILLY BLUBBER AND HIS BETTER HALF.'

On one side of a piece of wove paper. Dimensions of paper roughly 25.5 x 35.5 cm; dimensions of image 23.5 x 35 cm. Image clear and entire on lightly aged and creased paper with a little spotting. The margins of the print have been trimmed, resulting in the loss at the foot of the leaf of the...

£75.00
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958), American novelist, educational reformer and social activist [Vrest Orton]

Dorothy Canfield. A Biographical Note'.

Stapled pamphlet of thirteen pages (dimensions of leaf 15 x 8 cm), in original grey printed wraps. Attractively produced in relatively small print. Small stain to rear wrap, and some spotting to p.12. Inscribed beneath frontispiece photograph of a pensive Canfield at her writing desk, 'With best...

£225.00
G. Hervey, General Inspector [Edwardian poverty; vagrancy; workhouses; poor law]

Folio sheet of statistics, by 'G. Hervey, General Inspector', headed 'Eastern District. Return shewing the Total Number of Vagrants relieved during Years ended 31st December mentioned below [i.e. 1902 to 1909].'

Printed on one side of a sheet roughly 395 x 250 mm. Good, on lightly aged and creased paper. Text clear and entire. At foot: '(16611-21.) Wt. 6705-99. 325. 6/10. D & S.' Fifty-two entries, beginning with 'Cambridgeshire, Wisbech', each with columns for the years 1902 to 1909 of 'Numbers of...

£120.00
Gwen Raverat [Gwendolen Mary Raverat [née Darwin)] (1885-1957), English artist and printmaker

Wood engraving entitled 'Bowl players' [sometimes called 'Bowls Players'], signed by the artist ('G Raverat').

Very good. Dimensions of leaf 12 x 17 cm; dimensions of image 10 x 15 cm. Signed by Raverat in pencil in the bottom right-hand corner, and with the title 'Bowl [sic] players' by her in pencil at bottom left. Striking and evocative image showing five working men, on a village green at dusk,...

£350.00
Hinkford Hundred, in Essex; Isaac Hills, alehouse-keeper, at the Swan, Braintree

Printed notice, issued by the magistrates for the 'Hinkford Hundred, in Essex', enjoining 'all licenced alehouse-keepers within this hundred, to maintain and keep good order and rules'.

Printed on one side of a piece of laid paper roughly 320 x 190 mm. On light-aged paper, with slight discoloration, and wear to the fold line repaired on the reverse with archival tape. Twenty-one lines of text, clear and entire, with 'Hinkford Hundred, in Essex}' in the left-hand margin. The...

£85.00
Joseph Sadlier [William Patrick O'Reilly, Major in the Pope's Brigade, and Assistant Commissioner of the Board of Intermediate Education in Ireland; Garibaldi; General de Lamoricière]

Broadside handbill street-ballad entitled 'A New Song on the Glorious Victory of the Popes Brigade at Peruga' [sic, for 'Perugia']

Crudely printed on one side of a piece of wove paper, roughly 27 x 8 cm. Spotted and creased, but with no loss to text. Sixty lines of verse, beginning: 'Rejoice you sons of Erin's Isle, | Attention pay now for a while, | Those lines we'll surely make you smile, | Our brave brigade isvictorious...

£150.00
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