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Alfred Marden Nicoll; Louis Schabel [Croydon, Surrey], watchmaker. Seven pages. On four skins of vellum, each roughly eleven inches by nine wide. Attached with green ribbon, and with various stamps and two wax seals. Good: lightly aged and creased. The premises are at 77 and 79 North End, Croydon. 'Whereas by an Indenture of Lease dated the first day of April... |
£56.00 | |
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Charles Henry Ross (1842?-1897), editor of the magazine 'Judy' [Hablot Knight Brown ('Phiz'); Charles Dickens] Manuscript describing 'rough idea' of a projected Victorian periodical. Three pages on octavo bifolium. On creased, aged paper with pinholes and a little staining at head, but with text clear and entire. An interesting and intriguing document, docketed 'Rough idea of title.' The intention is to produce a 24-page magazine the size of Dickens's 'All the Year Round',... |
£450.00 | |
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Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884), English poet and wit [Sir George Grove] Autograph Letter Signed ('C S.Calverley') to Mrs [?] Lewis [of Ickleton?]. Three pages, 12mo. Very good. The blank verso of the second leaf of the bifolium laid down on remains of leaf detached from autograph album. Begins 'At length by certain Proofs 'tis plain (to quote a hymn familiar to my childhood but forgotten now all but that first line) that the readers of... |
£100.00 | |
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David Bogue (1750-1825), British nonconformist minister, whose academy at Gosport was 'the seed from which the London Missionary Society grew' Autograph Letter Signed [to 'Mr Procter, Islington']. Three pages, 12mo. Good, on aged paper, but with the verso of the second leaf of the bifolium covered by previous brown-paper mount. 'Mr Cecil' has passed on Procter's letter. 'The object of your Society is highly commendable, & I wish it much success.' He is 'promoting the same end, by... |
£125.00 | |
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Godfrey Wordsworth Turner (1825-1891), English art critic and journalist, connected with the 'Daily Telegraph' Autograph Letter Signed ('Godfrey Turner') from Turner to [Charles Henry] Ross (1842?-1897). Three pages, 12mo. On aged paper, with some foxing, a few closed tears and wear to extremities. Glue and strip of mount adhering to blank verso of second leaf of bifolium. Text clear and entire. He is in 'a maelstrom of work and worry' and asks Ross 'a question which you are almost certain not... |
£38.00 | |
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Godfrey Wordsworth Turner (1825-1891), English art critic and journalist, connected with the 'Daily Telegraph' Five Autograph Letters Signed ('Godfrey Turner') to [Edward] Draper. All five items good, on lightly aged paper. All five bifoliums, bearing traces of previous grey paper mount on the verso of the second leaf. LETTER ONE (one page, 12mo, 30 May 1865): He is 'very poorly', with a 'bad bilious attack which has threatened to turn into jaundice'. 'Yesterday I met Mr... |
£120.00 | |
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John Mackenzie Bacon (1846-1904), British lecturer, scientist, aeronaut [BALLOONING; VICTORIAN AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY] Autograph items (all 12mo) very good; TLS (letter 7, quarto) aged and worn at extremities. All items bearing the Society's stamp, and most docketed as answered. Letter 1 (16 September 1901, three pages). Asks if Wood will 'act as Judge' at a 'Photographic Exhibition' held at 'a local Institution... |
£180.00 | |
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Lawrence Hyde (b.1894, fl. 1954), English journalist and spiritual philospher [Herbert George Wood; Quaker; Society of Friends; Selly Oak College; Fircroft; Woodbrooke] All items very good, on lightly aged paper. Four closely written and interesting communications on his writings and philosophy. LETTER ONE (16 June 1930, 2 pages, 12mo): On the question of 'that misunderstanding regarding our last visit', the rest of the month is 'booked up', but 'perhaps the... |
£250.00 | |
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Mrs Frances Eliza ('Fanny') Kingsley (nee Grenfell) (1814-1891), wife of the English novelist Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) Three pages, 12mo. Good, on aged and lightly stained paper. She is writing because her husband, who is 'on the eve of starting for Scotland', 'is very far from well today'. He asks her to thank her correspondent 'for the Translations & the Pamphlet on the Revelation' [Fleay's 'The Book of... |
£56.00 | |
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Nicolai Malko (1883-1961), Russian conductor, latterly chief conductor in Australia with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Dimensions of photograph roughly nine inches by seven wide. Aged, lightly creased and a little scuffed. Slight loss to bottom right-hand corner of border, not affecting image. A bespectacled Malko in a double-breasted pinstripe jacket, in the act of conducting, baton aloft, and with violinist in... |
£200.00 |
