Printed 'Duplicate' of grant by 'The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company to Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son', of 'exclusive right of Selling Newspapers &c., and of Advertising at the Company's Stations and Premises', with two related documents.

ONE (Grant of 1908): 9 + [1]pp., 8vo. Unstitched and unbound. Properly printed and paginated, with marginal glosses. On aged and worn paper, with closed tears along fold lines. Containing 27 clauses, in an agreement for a term of seven years from 1 January 1909. Between the railway company and, on behalf of W. H. Smith and Son, the Honourable William Frederick Danvers Smith MP, Charles Awdry, Alfred Dyke Acland, Charles Harry St John Hornby and Charles Selwyn Awdry. W. H. Smith had opened their first railway bookstall almost exactly sixty years before, in November of 1848. TWO (agreement of 1918): 'Agreement. | further extending the term and varying payment. | (to be indorsed on GRANT - LANCS. & YORKS. RLY. COY. to Messrs W. H. SMITH & SON - dated, 5th November 1908).' Duplicated typescript. 2 + 1pp., 8vo. On behalf of W. H. Smith and Son: William Frederick Danvers Viscount Hambleden, Alfred Dyke Acland, Charles Harry St John HOrnby, Charles Selwyn Awdry and Arnold Danvers Power. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. THREE (agreement made the