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[Birmingham Auctions]

COLLECTION OF THIRTEEN SALE CATALOGUES OF BIRMINGHAM AUCTIONEERS

In 4to and 8vo as stated below. All items unbound. The collection as a whole in reasonable condition, although lightly aged and worn. Some items with detached plates or leaves. Most items annotated in pencil, probably by the 'Mr Merry' named in the receipt in item 10.1. [4to, 16 pp, in printed...

Book Trade History £200.00
[Bolton Corney]

Facts relative to William Oldys, Esq., Norroy King at Arms.

[Title continued] "Comprising an attempt to vindicate him from the vindication published by I. D'Israeli". Pamphlet, 15pp., 8vo, soiled and chipped, not sewn or stapled. According to the BLC "Being art,23 of Corney's 'Curiosities of Literature by I. D'Israeli . . . Illustrated.'" Scarce.

History £56.00
[BOOK TRADE; PUBLISHING HISTORY] [Grant Richards, Publisher]

[Manuscript]"Trustee in Bankruptcy of Grant Richards to Mr A. Moring / Assignment of Goodwill and publishing rights of 'Worlds Classics &c'", Signed by H.A. Moncrieff, Accountant, "Trustee of the estate of . . . Grant Richards in Bankruptcy"

Two leaves, vellum, folio, one page blank, folded, good condition. Details he bankruptcy of Grant Richards are given, mentioning the addresses of his premises, and continues: "The said Alexander Moring [publisher, de la More Press] has recently agreed with the said . . . Moncrieff for the...

Book Trade History £595.00
[BOOK TRADE] John Bedford Leno [CHARTISM; RADICALISM; UXBRIDGE]

Parchment Manuscript Indenture, consisting of the counterpart lease of No. 50 Holywell Street, Strand, Middlesex, from the Revd Charles Felton Smith, Edwin Augustus Smith and others to John Bedford Leno.

Leno (1824-94) was a printer, publisher, poet and editor, and a significant figure in nineteenth-century radicalism. In 1845, while a printer, he led a group of radical workers who started a Young Men's Improvement Society and circulated a manuscript newspaper entitled the 'Attempt'. He then...

Book Trade History £325.00
[BOOK TRADE] William Strahan, Printer and Publisher

Apprenticeship document, stamped, part printed, part manuscript, signed "Will. Strahan".

An indenture, one page, circa 7.5 x 5.5 ins, stained and other minor defects (of age), text clear and complete. It binds a "Samuel Bennet" as Apprentice to William Strahan, "Citizen and STATIONER of London", for seven years. under the usual terms (no drinking or dice). Bennet's father has paid £...

Book Trade History £600.00
[Bookbinders to the SPCK]

Invoices and receipts.

Six items, invoices and receipts, 1835-1836, some revealing the spreading of the binding among different firms of "Military Prayers" [prob. John Parker Lawson, "The Military Pastor", a series of Practical Discourses addressed to soldiers, with prayers for the use of the sick published by J.W....

Book Trade History £100.00
[BOOKBINDING] A[rchibald] Leighton, bookbinder (prob. II, active 1801-1841; BBTI).

Autograph Note Signed to Saunders & Otley, publisher and bookseller (active 1826-1851; BBTI)

Piece of paper, bifoliate, c.5 x 4", good condition. "Gent. / These books belong to you - I will call & explain tomorrow / A. Leighton". Archibald Leighton II helped invent and develop 'book cloth binding' between 1820 and 1832. (BBTI).

Book Trade History £55.00
[BOOKSELLING] Sir Basil Blackwell

Typed Note Signed to J. G. Wilson of Messrs Bumpus of Oxford Street.

Notable Oxford bookseller (1889-1984). 1 page, 16mo. In good condition though dusty. He thanks Wilson for sending 'The Yellow Dwarf', 'which shall be duly submitted to the editor of 'The Merry-Go-Round'. Thank you for thinking of it.' Signed 'B Blackwell'.

Book Trade History £45.00
[Boston; The Christian Review; <T Nayland? or Wayland?>; Sir E. F. Bromhead; nineteenth century economics; economic history]

An Article on the Debts of the States from the Christian Review for March, 1844.

8vo: 24 pp. Unbound and stitched. With printed grey front wrap, inscribed to 'Sir E. F. Bromhead | Bassingham | Lincolnshire | from the author | '. On aged paper, grubby at extremities and a little dogeared, but tight and with text clear and entire. 'The general fact has been long before the...

History £150.00
[Breach of Contract for Pastoral Leases in Queensland, Australia, 1923]

Corrected galley proofs headed '125783 - BOOKLET - ONE | Queensland's Breach of Contract.'

On one side each of five 46 x 14.5 cm slips of paper. Good: slightly aged and with rusting to staple. Begins 'Much comment having appeared in the Press during the last three years on the subject of a breach by the Government of Queensland of the contracts contained in the Pastoral Leases issued...

History £75.00