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Shirley Brooks [ Charles William Shirley Brooks ] Autograph Letter Signed to "Miss Baker". Author and editor (see DNB). One page, 8vo, sl. discoloured, laid down on another piece of paper, text clear as follows: Before leaving town I requested a friend who is very intimate with publishers to take charge of your M.S. and as a favour to me, to do anything in his power towards procuring... |
£36.00 | |
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Sir Charles Lawson Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Dorothy Nevill, society hostess, horticulturist Etcher. Four pages, 8vo, good condition, sending his warm appreciation of her ‘Reminiscences’,mentioning Kate Greenaway ("artistic merit and sweet disposition") whose Christmas cards Lady Dorothy has kept, and also mentioning that he had sent a Card [copy enclosed] to the King which the King had... |
£85.00 | |
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I Zingari [CRICKET EPHEMERA] Fragment of printed handbill by the Earl of Dartmouth. For this eccentric club see 'The History of I Zingari' by R. L. Arrowsmith & B. J. W. Hill (1982). From the Mark Bonham Carter archive. Roughly five inches square. In poor condition: grubby and creased with several closed tears. Text entirely legible. Ink notes on back (by Bonham Carter?)... |
£50.00 | |
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Thomas Jackson [ Gunmaker ] The invoice, one page, 4to, good condition, lists 16 items, total amount £14.2.0, from "a second hand single gun" for £10 to powder flask (5s 6d), powder, crest on stock etc. The receipt acknowledges payment and is in the hand of Jackson and signed by him. |
£65.00 | |
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Alfred Bunn [THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE] Theatrical manager (1796?-1860) and poet, manager of Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres, 1833-48. One page, quarto. Good, but somewhat grubby on lightly-creased, discoloured paper. Reads 'My dear Sir | I do not remember at this moment any point, beyond those we discussed yesterday, that... |
£180.00 | |
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Alfred Ainger Autograph Letter Signed to [?] Bradfield. English writer, humorist and divine (1837-1904). Four pages, 12mo. Very good, though a tad grubby, and with traces of previous mounting on verso of second leaf of bifoliate. He is late in replying because he has been bringing his invalid niece back from Derbyshire to Hampstead. Touches on her... |
£28.00 | |
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Arthur Machen The Grand Trouvaille. A Legend of Pentonville. 8 pp., 4to, self-wrappers., edges sunned, mainly very good, illustrated with woodcuts. Limited Edition SIGNED by Arthur Machen, limited to 250 copies of which this is number 179. |
£220.00 | |
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Frederick Charles Husenbeth Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent [bookseller] Roman Catholic divine and author (1796-1872). One page, 12mo. Frail item in poor condition. On discoloured paper with loss to one edge (affecting five words of text) caused by damp staining. Small spike hole in centre. Clearly written to a bookseller. Reads 'Dear Sir | Be so good as to send e... |
£28.00 | |
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George III, King of England Two pages. Paper dimensions approximately seven and a half inches by twelve. An important and highly dramatic document, relating to the Prince's treatment of his wife Caroline of Brunswick in the period following the birth of their only child Princess Charlotte Augusta, with reference to the... |
£600.00 | |
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John Allen Harker Autograph Letter Signed to Sir H[enry]. T[rueman]. Wood, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. Inventor and engineer (1870-1923), whose papers are held by the Royal Society. During the war Harker was in the Inventions Department of the Ministry of Munitions. One page, 12mo. Good, if slightly grubby. Docketed in pencil and bearing the Society's stamp. Reads 'I send herewith a short... |
£28.00 |
