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The Victorian Silk Trade [Child Labour, Factories' Act].

Printed notice, signed 'AMBROSE MOORE' regarding 'Children in Silk Mills', together with covering manuscript letter, signed 'Grout & Co.', and envelope, addressed to William Wilshere, M.P.

Wilshere (1804-67) was M.P. for Great Yarmouth William, MP for Great Yarmouth between 1837 and 1846). The notice: 2 pages, 4to. In very good condition despite minor spotting and two closed tears caused by folding. The letter: 1 page, 8vo. In very good condition. The envelope (addressed to 'W....

Social history £95.00
The Walpole Printing Office, in New Rochelle, N.Y. [Peter Beilenson; Edmund B. Thompson; Peter Pauper Press; Herb Roth; American fine printing; typography; T. S. Eliot]

A folio leaf containing seven 'Specimen Pages from Books made at the Walpole Printing Office in New Rochelle, N.Y, including the title-page and frontispiece of the limited edition of T. S. Eliot's 'John Dryden'.

Printed in black and sepia on both sides of a leaf of watermarked wove paper, 45 x 30 cm. On lightly-aged paper with one vertical and two horizontal fold lines. The seven sample pages feature a total of six illustrations, in a variety of styles, two by Herb Roth. The arrangement is as follows....

Printing History £120.00
The wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.

7 original photographs by Gerald Guttman.

The pictures, which vary in size from 3 inches by 5 inches to 3 inches square, are crudely pasted to a piece of grey card, beneath a heading made up of three pieces apparently cut out of newspapers or magazines and reading 'Royal Wedding Day | 23 July | Andrew & Sarah 1986'. All seven...

Royalty £150.00
The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London.

A List of the Wardens Assistants and Livery of The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London.

12mo. In original worn red morocco binding, gilt, with loose front free endpaper. Good, with EXTENSIVE MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. Eight blank leaves bound in front and back, on which are laid down forty-nine illustrations of arms of London livery companies, each approximately one and...

History £180.00
The Worshipful Company of Stationers [Stationers' Company; paper doily]

Menu for a dinner of the Worshipful Company of Stationers at Brusnwick Hotel, Blackwall. With ornate doily cut border.

On one side of a piece of wove paper roughly 23.5 x 19 cm. A delicate and scarce piece of ephemera, in a remarkably good state of repair. Possibly a proof, as a thin blank strip along one of the vertical edges, intended to be detached and discarded, still adheres. The menu itself is crisply...

Book Trade History, History £65.00
Thea Stein-Lewinson (1907-2000), German graphologist

Presentation copy of offprint of article: 'Die Handschrift des Chronischen Arthritikers'.

8vo: 14 pp, paginated 114-127. Presentation copy, inscribed on first page 'With the compliments of the author.' First page stamped 'DIE SCHRIFT | III J. 3 NR. | VERLAG RUDOLF M. ROHRER, BRUNN.' On browned, high-acidity paper, with chipping and flaking to extremities of first leaf. Four...

Science, Medicine and Technology £56.00
[Etienne Rochette; Asthma]

[Asthma; pamphlet] Nos Maladies par Etienne Rochette. Fascicule No. 1. L'Asthme

24pp., 12mo, disbound, spine slightly damaged, some staining, text clear and complete. No other copy traced.

£80.00
Theodor H. Gaster [Theodor Herzl Gaster (1906-1992)], Anglo-American anthropologist, an authority in the field of comparative religion [Sir James Frazer]

Presentation copy of offprint of article: 'Divine Kingship in the Ancient Near East: A Review Article'.

8vo: 15 pp, paginated 267-281, In grey printed wraps. Inscribed by Gaster on front cover: 'With kindest regards | T. H. G.' Good, on lightly-aged paper, in grubby and lightly creased wraps.

History £56.00
Theodore Besterman

A bibliography of Sir James George Frazer O.M. compiled [...] with portraits and facsimiles.

8vo. Pages: xxi + 100. PRESENTATION COPY from Sir James and Lady Frazer, with their calling card, inscribed 'Sent to the Librarian [of the Royal Society of Literature] as promised by [following five words printed] Sir James and Lady Frazer. | June 11. 1936 | with thanks for their reception |...

Literature £100.00
Theodore Besterman

Le Gout des Manuscripts. Discours inaugural prononce a Bale le 28 juin 1956 [...] devant la Societe suisse d'amateurs d'autographes.

12mo: 45 pp. In original light-green printed wraps. Very good on lightly aged paper, with some sunning to wraps. Inscribed by the author "For Mary | with love & all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year, especially the show' | Th." Besterman attempts to demonstrate that the taste for...

£75.00