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[PRINTING: FIRST WORLD WAR]William Archibald Clowes (1866-1937), Chairman, William Clowes & Sons Ltd, English printers Clowes is an eminent firm of English printers, founded in London in 1803, and still thriving in Suffolk. The twelve typed letters are each one page, quarto, on the firm's Duke Street letterhead. The autograph letter is one page, 12mo, with mourning border. The collection in good condition... |
£500.00 | |
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[PRINTING] Henry Sandon, Victorian engraver Engraved trade card with illustration. On good thick wove paper, roughly six and a quarter inches by four and three-quarters wide. Dimensions of plate indentation five inches by three wide. Good, on aged and lightly-foxed paper, left edge irregular indicating extraction. A very attractive card, carrying an engraving of a sylvan scene... |
£65.00 | |
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[PROVINCIAL PRINTING] William Grigg, bookseller, bookbinder and stationer, [Add to BBTI]"In the old Exchange, over against Broadgate, Exeter c.3 x 5", (cut from sheet?). Printed (verso blank) by Andrew Brice, "Northgate-street, Exon." [re BBTI there 1746-1765; BBTI - Grigg's Trading dates 1754-1790]. He lists what he sells: books, stationery, maps and pictures, various patent medicines ("Daffey's, Squire's, Bostock's and Stoughton's... |
£500.00 | |
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[PROVINCIAL]W. Gotelee, bookseller, printer and stationer. Sixteen invoices, all 8vo, good condition. They bought account books and stationery relevant to their function. The overseers, for example, bought a "Poor Rates Book", had "Rate Receipt books" and "Poor Rate Notices" printed by Gotelee. The surveyors' invoices listed "Printing 200 Highway Rate... |
£200.00 | |
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[PUBLISHING; MUSIC] William Smallwood, prolific Victorian composer. Letters from publishers to Smallwood and other material. Ten items, various formats, mainly 8vo. a. Copy statement i, 13 Jan. 1879, in which Smallwood agrees terms with the music publisher, Mary Ann Williams for his "musical composition entitled Winander-mere". b. Autograph Note Signed "Frederick Langbridge", 25 Jan. 1877, confirming that the sole... |
£300.00 | |
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[R.W. Lane, printer, bookseller, stationer, bookbinder Manuscript Invoice, account of "Messrs Shairp & Archer". One page, fol, chipped and stained with minimal textual loss. A lengthy list of various kinds of paper. Add to BBTI Bookbinder, medicine vendor and perfumer, seller of paper-hangings. |
£45.00 | |
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[Roake & Varty] A.B. Lechmere, Gent. ADD "York House" to BBTI. And "Publisher. And Worcester bookseller. Four pages, minor defects, text complete and clear. He requests his account for "Stationery & Consitutional Tracts" and asks how much "it would cost to purchase the whole of the Tracts published by you from the commencement... |
£75.00 | |
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[Samuel Lewis & Co., publishers [BBTI}. Two printed (italic) invoices with receipts, part manuscript part printed, for Alfred Simpson. Invoices, one page each, 4to, good condition. Receipts of conventional size, both signed "R. Toley" [not in BBTI]. The subjects are subscruiption editions of Lewis's Topographical Dictionaries of England and Wales (1845), Scotland and Ireland (1847), with prices, including "colouring Atlas[es... |
£35.00 | |
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[SCOTTISH STATIONER AND BOOKSELLER 1688-1695] William Adam, stationer and bookseller [?], (SBTI) Manuscript receipted invoice (account) signed, William Adam to John Wardrope t. "Mr John Wardropes Account to Wm Adam [Mer[chan]tOne page, c.8 x 8", some damage marginally affecting text, minor defects. Details include date of purchases and the nature of the purchase ("for Loch Leithes" [?], various quatities of paper, parchment skins, "Josephus Books"), all with prices... |
£200.00 | |
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[Sir Thomas Phillipps, antiquary and bibliophile]. One page, 4to, slightly marked, mainly good condition. INSCRIBED in the hand of John Bowyer Nichols, the book's publisher and printer, "Respectfully submitted to Sir Thomas Phillipps Bart." Dawson Turner was to contribute a "Memoir of the Author" |
£85.00 |
