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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Alfred & Son, 'Manufacturers of superior Fishing Tackle of every description', 54 Moorgate Street, London. [ANGLING; WILLIAM HENRY ALFRED] Receipt,made out to "E. Fellows", signed by William Henry Alfred. One page, on leaf roughly six and a half inches by eight wide. Aged and creased. Unobtrusively repaired with archival tape. Attractive letterhead (according to which the firm, previously at 41 Coleman Street, was established in 1819) with illustration showing a gentleman angler in top hat...	Social history	£56.00
Alfred Ainger Autograph Letter Signed to [?] Bradfield. English writer, humorist and divine (1837-1904). Four pages, 12mo. Very good, though a tad grubby, and with traces of previous mounting on verso of second leaf of bifoliate. He is late in replying because he has been bringing his invalid niece back from Derbyshire to Hampstead. Touches on her...	Literature	£28.00
Alfred Barry. Signature only. Primate of Australia, miscellaneous writer (DNB). Clipped signature, , on paper, c.3.5 x 1.5", laid down on similar sized card. Text as follows: "Yours truly / Alfred Barry / W.H. Dynham Esq", the latter being the correspondent.	Travel and Topography	£25.00
Alfred Barton Rendle autograph postcards signed (x 2) to F. O. Whitaker, Botanist (1865-1938). Both 12mo. Both stamped and addressed in autograph to "F. O. Whitaker Esq. / 45 Elmdene Rd / Plumstead / S. E. 18". The first, with a crease to one corner: "I have just seen Mr Salmon who is anxious to be at the B M. Secl. meeting. Mon Tues or Wed in the next week (Jan...	Natural History	£40.00
Alfred Bunn [THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE] Autograph Letter Signed to Henry Robertson, Secretary, Covent Garden Theatre, together with draft of Robertson's reply. Theatrical manager (1796?-1860) and poet, manager of Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres, 1833-48. One page, quarto. Good, but somewhat grubby on lightly-creased, discoloured paper. Reads 'My dear Sir \| I do not remember at this moment any point, beyond those we discussed yesterday, that...	Music and Theatre	£180.00
Alfred Cecil Calmour Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Friend'. English playwright and poet (died 1912). One page, 12mo. In good condition on discoloured paper. 'I'll look up Brandon - but I wished that you had read it to him. - It ritualizes a play so much. Properly cast the price should be a "money matter." But it must be properly cast. Can we meet?...	Literature	£35.00
Alfred Crowquill, pseud. How he reigned and how he mizzled. A railway raillery. pseud. for Alfred Forrester. Oblong 8vo, paper covers (front dec.), 8 pp. only recto printed with cartoons, covers soiled, mainly good condition.	Literature, Social history	£200.00
Alfred D. Kissack; Hills & Saunders; Eton photographers [Raymond Coxe Radcliffe (1852-1929), King's College, Cambridge, Assistant Master in Mathematics and Classics, Eton College] Photograph album containing signed portraits of Radcliffe and his wife, and 108 cartes-de-visite of Eton schoolboys, including several dressed for the 'Procession of Boats'. Mainly taken by the studio of Alfred D. Kissack of Eton. Possibly a presentation to Radcliffe and his wife. 4to photograph album, in heavily-worn leather binding, all edges gilt, lacking clasp and spine, containing a total of 113 photographs, including 108 albumen cartes-de-visite, each print approximately 9 x 5.5 cm, and each laid down on a gilt-...	Social history	£400.00
William Le Queux, novelist [Autograph Manuscript] A Little Romance of 'P.W.' ['P.W.' = Pearson's Weekly] 10pp., cr. 8vo, text written on rectos, good condition. At the top of the first page he writes Proof to William Le Queux. 89 Elgin Avenue, Maida Vale, and he signs the last page. There are corrections and additions. This is Le Queux's contribution to the thousandth number of Pearson's Weekly in...	Literature, Travel and Topography	£750.00
Alfred Edward Chalon, John James Chalon, Andrew Geddes, Andrew Robertson Autograph Signatures on fragment of petition to W[illiam]. J[ohn]. Roper, Secretary to the Artists' General Benevolent Fund. All four are notable British artists of the first half of the nineteenth-century: A. E. Chalon (1780-1860), J. J. Chalon (1778-1854), Geddes (1783-1844), Robertson (1777-1845). Paper dimensions roughly four and a half inches by five and a half. Grubby and discoloured with age, and with some wear...	Art and Architecture	£46.00