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Mrs M.A. Hughes, author, grandmother of Thomas Hughes, central to the literary society of her day. Autograph Letter Signed "M.A. Hughes" to Richard Twining,jun., Banker and Tea Merchant (see DNB Three pages, 4to, but cross-written, making six pages of writing, sometimes hard to read, small piece of letter with a few words detached but present. Mrs Hughes is her usual informative, authoritative, lively and intelligent self, initially discussing the British disaster at Buenos Ayres. being... |
£350.00 | |
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G. & F. E. Wattis, Birmingham; Alfred Lea and John Knight & Co., Leeds; John Greenwood & Sons, Clerkenwell; [Victorian clocks and watches; clockmakers; timepieces; horology; trade catalogues] The collection, consisting of eighteen items, would appear to derive from J. L. Cocker, to whom one of the receipts is made out. Eight posters, all but the last in fair condition, aged and lightly worn; and all but Number printed in black and white. Items Three and Eight have the firm's address... |
£850.00 | |
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John Hassall (1868-1948), English illustrator Autograph Letter Signed to Dollman. 8vo, 1 p. Nine lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged and lightly-spotted paper, lightly-creased and with small closed tears at edges of central crease. From the context of other items in the same collection, this letter relates to an 'Artists general Benevolent Banquet' (for which... |
£56.00 | |
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Samuel Gurney (1786-1856), English banker and philanthropist Autograph Letter Signed ('Saml Gurney'), addressed to a 'Respected Friend'. 12mo, 2 pp. On grey paper. Fourteen lines. Text clear and complete. Lightly aged, and with numerous crease lines from folding. An eloquent letter declining to donate to an educational charity. He has 'large opportunity of giving as much of my funds in that direction as I am desirous of doing'.... |
£65.00 | |
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Sir Reginald Blomfield [Reginald Theodore Blomfield] (1856-1942), British architect and garden designer [John Charles Dollman (1851-1934), English illustrator; Frederick William Pomeroy (1856-1924)] Note, in a secretarial hand, signed by Blomfield ('Reginald . Blomfield'), to Dollman. 12mo, 1 p. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. From the context of other items in the same collection, this letter relates to an 'Artists general Benevolent Banquet' (for which Dollman was acting as steward). Blomfield would be pleased to join Dollman, but has 'already promised my... |
£33.00 | |
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The Enterprise Printing House, Corfu, New York [American trade catalogue] 8vo (23 x 15 cm), 32 pp. Stapled. Outer pages in blue. In fair condition, with a little damp-staining at the head of the first leaf (with minimal effect on the text), and a tiny dab of the same staining continuing at the corner of each leaf (not affecting the text). Title-page on cover... |
£200.00 | |
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The Presbyterian Board of Publication, Philadelphia [Joseph P. Engles, Publishing Agent; trade catalogues] 12mo: xxvi + 64 + [i] pp. Unbound. Stitched as issued. Last leaf blank. Text clear and complete. On aged paper, with heavy wear to outer leaves, and staining to first and last half-dozen leaves. Ownership inscription of Charles Ira Gordon Skeen of Covington, Virginia, along outer margin of title... |
£200.00 | |
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Van' [Ulster Unionism; Unionist; Conservative Party] 12mo (leaf dimensions 22 x 14.5 cm), 4 pp. Bifolium. Text clear and complete. On lightly-worn and aged paper. Excessively scarce: no copy in the British Library, on COPAC, or on WorldCat. Five songs: 'The Union Jack. Air "Nancy Lee." ', 'The Shamrock, Thistle, & Rose. Air "The British... |
£100.00 | |
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Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999), writer [Hilda Finnemore?] Typed Letter Signed ('Naomi Mitchison') to 'Miss Finnemore'. 12mo, 1 p. Eight lines. On lightly-aged paper with creasing to head and part of stub from autograph album adhering to the reverse. As Mitchison is 'always glad to hear of new books', she would be 'delighted' to receive a copy of the book, as she is 'always glad to hear of new books, not only for... |
£56.00 | |
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Rev. Robert Clark (died 1900), Secretary, The Church Missionary Society, Punjab [Clarkabad, Pakistan] Foolscap (32 x 20.5 cm), 2 pp. Bifolium. 51 lines of text, in neat copperplate, followed by a list, in the same hand, of sixteen signatories. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with slight creasing at head. Clark, after whom the town of Clarkabad is named, was described by a contemporary as 'perhaps... |
£180.00 |
