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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
James K. Colling [ James Kellaway Colling (1816–1905), architect, watercolour artist, noted book illustrator, pioneer of early Chromolithographic printing.] James Kennaway Colling; Chromolithography ] Autograph Letter Signed James K. Colling to Revd. H.T. Ellacombe, divine and antiquary [Wikipedia].. Three pages, 12mo, bifolium, fold marks, very good condition. If you will let me know what Numbers you require of the Gothic Ornaments {his work first published in 1838] I will endeavour to let you have them. It is very probable that you would not get them at my publishers as there being so...		£120.00
Agnes E. Weston [ Dame Agnes Elizabeth Weston (1840–1918), also known as Aggie Weston, philanthropist noted for her work with the Royal Navy. ] [ Agnes Weston; Sailors' Rest ] Autograph Note Signed on card, thanking a Mrs Taylor for her remembrance of [her] work. Card, c. 11 x 9cm,rounded corners. Very many thanks dear Mrs Taylor for your kind remembrance of my work \| Agnes E. Weston.		£32.00
G.G. Kilburne [ George Goodwin Kilburne (1839 – 1924), genre painter. ] [ G.G. Kilburne, genre painter ] Four Autograph Notes Signed G.G. Kilburne to an unnamed fellow artist All one page, 12mo, good condition. A. (23 May 1877) He thanks his correspondent for showing his drawings to Messrs Daldy, [publishers] adding, I presume the drawings would not all [underlined] be required very [underlined] soon. I am rather pressed for time just now. B. (3 Aug. 1877) [...] I...		£120.00
James Lord Bowes (1834–1899), wealthy Liverpool wool broker, art collector and patron of the arts, author and authority on Japan and its art, and benefactor. [ James Lord Bowes; Japanese Art ] Two Autograph Notes in the third person consigning copies of his books (Japanese interest) to the editor of The Academy. NOTE 1: One page, 12mo, very good condition. Mr. James L. Bowes presents his compliments to the Editor of The Academy and has pleasure in forwarding for his acceptance copy of his new work on the Art of Japan entitled 'Japanese Pottery' and he ventures to draw attention to the Notes with which...		£120.00
Hesba Stretton [ Pen name of Sarah Smith (1832–1911), writer of children's books.] [ Hesba Stretton; NSPCC ] Autograph Letter Signed Hesba Stretton to an unnamed lady about the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, organising its foundation on 11 July 1884. One page, 12mo, neat hand, laid down on slightly larger paper, good condition. The ladies of the Children's Safety Committee gave me permission last Thursday to send to each member of the society ten invitation cards for the meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, in...		£180.00
Marghanita Laski [ (1915–1988), journalist, radio panellist and novelist. ] [ Marghanita Laski ] Typed Note Signed Marghanita Laski to a Mr. Ager, declining an invitation to speak to a Society. One page, 12mo, good condition. It is more than good of you to invite me again to speak to your Society, and it makes me feel very sorry and ashamed that again I must say no. But I have had to give up all lecturing except where there is an inescapable personal obligation to do so because it...		£28.00
Plantagenet Somerset Fry [ born Peter George Robin Fry (1931–1996), historian ] [ Plantagenet Somerset Fry; historian ] Typed Letter Signed Plantagenet Somerset Fry to Lord Elibank (James Alastair Frederick Campbell Erskine-Murray, 13th Lord Elibank) who has written his reply in the margins and spaces. Two pages, 8vo, very good condition, with a few holograph corrections. He thanks Lord Elibank for the loan of pamphlets, naming the one on Bismarck that he is returning. He agrees with most of what Elibank says about the Armada, finding the key question whether there was 'a strike of not'. He...		£56.00
[Council of Education for the Isle of Man and (from 1947) the Isle of Man Board of Education; Buchan School, Castletown, Malew] [Printed reports.] Run of reports of the Council of Education for the Isle of Man [Isle of Man Board of Education], 1911-1969, with copy of the 'Report of the Buchan School Commission. July, 1951'. 56 items, comprising an unbroken run of 53 issues from 1911 to 1963, together with the issues for 1967 and 1969, and a copy of the 'Report of the Buchan School Commission \| July, 1951'. In two sturdy green cloth boxes ('Supplied for the Public Service'). All 56 items with stamps, shelfmarks and...		£750.00
G. Lowes Dickinson [ Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson ] (1862–1932), classical scholar and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge [ E. M. Forster ] [ G. Lowes Dickinson. ] Early Typescript drafts from 'Plato and his Dialogues', with autograph emendations; and typescript of his BBC radio talk on Plato's 'view of the nature of knowledge' (part of series on which book was based). 'Plato and his Dialogues' was Lowes Dickinson's last book. It was warmly received on its posthumous publication, with its contemporary relevance recognised. In a review of May 1932, the Classical Association's journal 'Greece and Rome' declared: 'Here is material for the most exciting and...		£500.00
Horatio Nelson [Admiral Lord Nelson; Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté] (1758-1805) Battle of the Nile, 1798 [Handbill announcing Nelson's victory at the Battle of the Nile, 1798, headed: 'Adm. NELSON's Victory over the French.' Presumably distributed in the streets (of London?) on the news of Nelson's victory. No other copy of the title has been traced, either on OCLC WorldCat or COPAC. Printed on one side of a 34 x 19.5 cm piece of paper, with cropped margins (text area 33 x 17.5 cm). The reverse of the leaf would...	Military and Naval History	£450.00