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Author, Title, Summary Subject Price
Henry Arthur Jones

autograph note signed

English playwright. 'Faithfully yours | Henry Arthur Jones | Feby 4/28'. Pasted to a piece of docketed card. Damp stained.

Music and Theatre £15.00
Henry Arthur Jones

Autograph note signed to unnamed correspondent,

English dramatist (1851-1929). One page, 12mo. "Life won't bear looking at, will it; from / "Whitewashing Julia" / by / Henry Arthur Jones". Jones's comedy was printed by the Chiswick Press in 1903. Negligible rust-staining from paperclips in one margin.

Music and Theatre £20.00
Henry Arthur Jones

Autograph notes signed (x 2) to unnamed male correspondent,

English dramatist (1851-1929). The first, one page, 12mo, 2 December 1896, with letterhead Townshend House, North Gate, Regents Park. "If Macmillans have no objection I am quite willing for you to include Michael and His Lost Angel in your volume of plays. Will you see or write them?" The second...

Music and Theatre £50.00
Henry B. Wheatley.

Autograph Note Signed to "Mr Nesbitt".

Scholar, ed. Pepys Diary, etc. One page, 8vo, good condition. "I enclose subscription for Philological Society I am sorry to miss you in London - I hope you are comfortably settled at Glasgow."

£30.00
Henry Baring

Autograph Letter Signed to J. Lawford

Banker and gambler (1777-1848), father of the politician Henry Bingham Baring (1804-69). 1 page, 8vo. In very good condition although grubby. Addressed on verso of second leaf of bifoliate, which carries a red wax seal in two parts, to 'J. Lawford Esqr | Drapers hall'. Docketed in ink on verso...

£30.00
Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington (bap. 1618; d.1685), English politician and member of the celebrated 'Cabal' ministry

Autograph Signature ('Arlington') on fragment of document.

On a piece of paper roughly 4 x 7 cm. Very good, on slightly discoloured paper. Reads '<...> 34 years of His Maies <...> | [signed] Arlington'. The second of the two versions of Arlington's signature reproduced by Rawlins ('Five Hundred Years of British Autographs', p.63, no.8)....

History £28.00
[Kemble Parochial School, Gloucestershire; Education Department, Whitehall; Victorian teaching]

106 documents, both printed and manuscript, relating to Kemble Parochial School, Gloucestershire, from 1870 to 1903, comprising inspectors' reports, registers, schedules, notices, government circulars. With manuscript index.

A rare collection of material, comprising the records of a Victorian parochial school, including registers, reports and government Education Department circulars on a range of subjects. Initial reports by H. M. Inspectors are addressed to Rev. R. H. Taylor, Kemble Vicarage, Cirencester, but by...

£950.00
Henry Brodribb Irving

one autograph note signed to Mrs [?] Pagée,

English actor-manager (1870-1919), elder son of the celebrated Henry Irving. "My wife has asked me to send you the . I do so with the greatest pleasure. [...]". Discoloured, with heavy creasing to margin, and traces of previous mounting on reverse of blank second leaf.

Music and Theatre £25.00
Henry Charles Beeching (1859-1919), Dean of Norwich and author

Autograph Card Signed ('H C Beeching') to Messrs Swan Sonnenschein & Co., publishers.

Plain card, roughly 8.5 x 11 cm. Five lines of text. A little grubby, but good. Asking for his manuscript, so that he can 'correct the proof of the Introduction to Crashaw. It was written so many years ago that I can't always recall what I wrote'.

Book Trade History, Literature £23.00
Henry Cline [J.H. Shorthouse and John Porter].

Autograph Letter Signed to Richard Wilson

Surgeon, Astley Cooper's mentor (DNB), author of medical works. Three pages, 8vo, crude repairs to tears on folds, laid down, text clear and complete. He writes, "That disorder in a horse which constitutes a Roarer, is caused by a membranous projection in a part of the wind pipe (technically...

Science, Medicine and Technology £150.00