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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
[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...	Printing History	£65.00
[Prostitution; Brothels; Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, Hackney, London; New Scotland Yard] Five Typewritten, Manuscript and Printed items, collected together under the heading 'Re Brothels \| Papers Relating to complaints as to premises being used as brothels.' [around Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, Hackney] All five items good, on lightly aged and slightly dusty paper. A couple of with a little rust staining from a paperclip. Text clear and entire. Wrapped in a grubby and frayed piece of covering paper, bearing the title. ONE: Typed Letter Signed (one page, folio) from the Chief Clerk to the...	Social history	£56.00
[PROVINCIAL PRINTING, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE] Rev. John Hodgson An account of the life and writings of Richard Dawes, A.M. late master of the Royal Grammar School, and of the Hospital of St. Mary the Virgin, in Newcastle upon Tyne. 4to. Pages: [4] + 30. Uncut and in large part unopened, in original plain grey wraps. Stabbed as issued, but with thread worn away and signatures loose within wraps. Grubby and with some offsetting, but overall a very good survival of a scarce and fragile item. A handsome production which does...	Printing History	£125.00
[PROVINCIAL PRINTING] William Grigg, bookseller, bookbinder and stationer, [Add to BBTI]"In the old Exchange, over against Broadgate, Exeter Advertisement, 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...	Printing History	£500.00
[PROVINCIAL]W. Gotelee, bookseller, printer and stationer. Sixteen Receipted Invoices. printed heading, signed "W. Gotelee", "G. Gotelee" and W.J. Gotelee", accounts of the "Surveyors of Binfield", the "Overseers of Binfield Parish", the "Churchwardens of Binfield" 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...	Book Trade History	£200.00
[PUBLISHERS] Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. Invoice to J. Houlgate of the Yorkshire Society, 23 Davygate, York. 2 pages, 8vo. Creased and with several small stains in blue and red. A printed invoice, ruled with blue and red lines, filled in in manuscript with a claim for fourteen shillings, 'To advertising in \| The "Live Stock Journal," \| Nos. 448 & 449' [November 3 and 10 1882]. Payment details in...	Book Trade History	£20.00
[PUBLISHING AGREEMENT] Al Alvarez Typewritten Publishing agreement with Anthony Blond Limited, 56 Doughty Street, London, W.C.1. Poet and critic (born 1929), friend of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, now best known as a poker player. In good condition. On one side each of 3 4to pages, neatly stapled to a piece of card. '[...] concerning a work at present entitled: \| THE IRON CURTAIN SPY \| Edited and compiled \| by \| Al...	Book Trade History	£75.00
[PUBLISHING AGREEMENT] Andrea Newman Signed printed 'Memorandum of Agreement' with typewritten additions between Anthony Blond Limited and Newman as author of 'a work provisionally entitled "ENOUGH ROPE or THE CAGE" '; and typewritten agreement between two publishers for the same work. English novelist, born 1938. The memorandum is 4 pages on a 4to bifoliate. Several printed clauses deleted, and with the terms inserted in typescript. Two signatures: Newman's and another illegible (Blond's?), as well as that Newman's agent Robin Dalton, whose appointment is confirmed in a...	Book Trade History	£45.00
[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...	Book Trade History	£300.00
[PUNCH MAGAZINE] Major George Denholm Armour, O.B.E. Autograph Signature beneath printed cartoon. Scottish animal painter and cartoonist (1864-1949), for many years connected with Punch. In good condition, with the printed cartoon approximately 6 inches by 5, on 8vo piece of paper with two neat holes for ring binder. One of Armour's cartoons ('PLAYS FOR THE HUNTING-FIELD. \| "HONOURS EASY...	Art and Architecture	£50.00