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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
[Charles Marshall, author?] [Richard Bentley (1794-1871), printer and publisher] [Victorian children's literature] Glum-Glum. A Fairy Romance. 4to (leaf dimensions 20.5 x 16.5 cm): 63 pp. In original grey-green printed wraps. Tight and generally good, but with damp-staining to a few leaves, some wear to corners and creasing and grubbiness to the last three leaves. Wraps worn and grubby. Embossed bookseller's stamp to rear wrap: 'W. H....	Literature	£200.00
[Charles William Tonyn of University College, Oxford, 'Chaplain to the British Factory at Algier' [King's Chaplain at Algiers]; King George II; William Pitt the Elder (1708-1778), 1st Earl of Chatham Manuscript Leave or Licence of Absence, signed by King George II ('George R.'), and by William Pitt the Elder ('W Pitt'). 2 pp, on the first leaf of a bifolium of gilt-edged watermarked laid paper. Leaf dimensions 30 x 19 cm. Text clear and entire. On lightly aged, worn and creased paper. Slight spotting to reverse of first leaf. Vertical closed tear to second leaf, which is blank apart from docketing on reverse: '...	History	£600.00
[Chimney Sweeps; Chimney Sweepers; Victorian child labour; Act of Parliament] Anno Tertio & Quarto Victoriae Reginae. Cap. LXXXV. An Act for the Regulation of Chimney Sweepers and Chimneys. [7th August 1840.]' 8vo, 4 pp, paginated [605] to 608. Disbound bifolium. Two stab holes. Good, on lightly aged paper, with slight loss along crease line. A piece of landmark legislation in the field of employment rights. 'And be it enacted, That [...] any Person who shall compel or knowingly allow any Child or...	Social history	£25.00
[Temperance Movement; United Kingdom Alliance; Hyde Park Demonstration, 1893] A small archive of printed ephemera (none listed on COPAC) and manuscript material accumulated by J.L. Buzzacott, Sec. & Hon. Treas. of the "Local Contingent" relating to the Direct Veto Bill (Temperance Movement), 15 printed and MS. items Good condition, comprising in date order: Handbill ("Places without Public Houses", a rant against pubs), n.d.; Handbill ("Manifesto of the Committee of the London Auxiliary of the United Kingdon Alliance", n.d.); ALS headed United Kingdom Alliance, Dawson Burns ("Metropolitan Superintendent")...	History, Social history	£380.00
[Church of Ireland] The memorial of the Established Church in Ireland to the King, Lords, and Commons of Great Britain 215pp., errata slip present,original plain boards, recently rebacked with new spine label, binding worn, contents foxed (mainly lightly, but a few concentrations) throughout but mainly good. Very scarce. No copy listed on WorldCat or COPAC, but the National Library of Ireland has three copies (...	History	£450.00
[CLAUD LOVAT FRASER; RALPH HODGSON; HOLBROOK JACKSON; AT THE SIGN OF FLYING FAME] A garland of new songs by L. F. Eight pages, 12mo. Unbound and unstitched. Unfolds into a single leaf. Paper watermarked 'OAKWOOD \| FINE VELLUM'. Five different illustrations (one of which is duplicated). Grubby, spotted and with small closed tears and fraying along one edge (not affecting text or illustrations). 'PRICE...	Literature	£56.00
[CLAUD LOVAT FRASER; RALPH HODGSON; HOLBROOK JACKSON; AT THE SIGN OF FLYING FAME] A garland of portraitures. Eight pages, 12mo. Unbound and unstitched. Unfolds into a single leaf. Paper watermarked 'OAKWOOD \| FINE VELLUM'. Three illustrations. Good, but paper slightly discoloured and with some spotting. 'PRICE 2 PENCE PLAIN, 4 PENCE COLOURED.' This copy is uncoloured.	Literature	£56.00
[CLAUD LOVAT FRASER; RALPH HODGSON; HOLBROOK JACKSON] List of publications 'At the Sign of Flying Fame' in the form of a handbill. Printed on pink [faded from red?] unwatermarked paper, with cream backing. Dimensions of paper roughly fourteen centimeters by thirty-three centimeters. A frail ephemeral item. Lightly creased, and with further creasing and closed tears at head and foot, and minor loss at head. Faded, and with...	Book Trade History	£20.00
[CLAUD LOVAT FRASER] Illustrated handbill for two of his publications. Printed on unwatermarked tissue paper. Dimensions of paper roughly seven and a half centimeters by eleven and a half. A very good copy of a frail and ephemeral item. An attractive illustration by Fraser of an ivy-clad wall memorial topped by a cherub encloses the following 'There are Published...	Book Trade History	£85.00
[Colchester Theatre; the Theatre Royal, Norwich; eighteenth-century playbills; Inchbald; Waddy; Sharpe Playbill 'For the Benefit of The Charity Schools. At the Theatre in Colchester, By His Majesty's Servants, from the Theatre-Royal, Norwich'. Performance of 'Such Things Are' and 'The Widow's Vow'. On one side of a piece of laid paper, 25 x 17.5 cm. Text clear and complete. Aged, foxed and creased. Giving casts of the two plays (the first headed by 'Mr. Waddy' as 'Twineall'; and the second by 'Mr. Inchbald' as 'Don Antonio'. After the first cast list: 'End of the PLay, an Address in the...	Music and Theatre	£120.00