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Corrected galley proof of nonsense poem by 'M. S.' [the Faber & Faber production manager Montague Shaw?] entitled 'Cowkeeper's Tune'.

The text area is about 13.5 x 30 cm, on the top half of a slip of paper around twice as long. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. The lower half of the slip is blank apart from the pagination 196. Headed 'EPILOGUE | COWKEEPER'S TUNE', and beginning 'Unless your window is fitted...

Manuscript account book of a Canterbury monumental mason and funeral director, with itemised descriptions of work done for each client.

12mo, 164 pp. In vellum notebook, with brass clasp and marbled endpapers. Text clear and complete, in several hands. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. Binding grubby, endpapers split. Index on first four pages, with each of the subsequent pages devoted to a single account. Each entry dated, with name...

[Printed book.] The Second Book of the Sealed Prophecies. An Address to the Public Written in 1796. Taken from the Sealed Writings of Joanna Southcott, February 20, the Fast Day, 1805. [With Autograph Card Signed to J. M. Stitt, Clock House Press.]

8vo, 136 pp. The original sheets of the second edition of 1812, in purple wraps printed in 1920. Text clear and complete. Grubby, on aged paper, with top edge badly trimmed; wraps creased. Excessively scarce: the only copy of this 1812 second edition on COPAC at University College London (like...

Three Autograph Letters Signed from the antiquary Samuel Lysons to Canon John Edward Jackson, with Jackson's copy of Lysons' 'The Model Merchant of the Middle Ages, exemplified in the Story of Whittington and his Cat', with extra material inserted.

The three letters are in excellent condition, on lightly-aged paper, with all texts clear and complete. ONE: 6 September 1866. 12mo, 4 pp. Jackson's letter has been forwarded to him in Scotland, 'but not your copy of the M.S.' 'What an interesting fund of entertainment you have at Longleat! I...