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B. Reynell [Victorian, Edwardian illustration; railway locomotives; steam engines]

Detailed pencil illustrations of nine steam engines [locomotives].

Landscape sketchbook of twelve leaves. Dimensions of each leaf roughly 26.5 x 38 cm. Unbound and stitched. In original brown patterned wraps. Good, on lightly discoloured and spotted drawing paper, with some wear to extremities, heavy wear at head of spine, and in heavily-worn wraps. The first...

£200.00
B.B. Woodward.

Autograph Letter Signed to [Samuel Christie-Miller].

Librarian at Windsor Castle. Three pages, 8vo, good condition. "I am one of hte unfortunates of the earth . . ." He is unable to accept an invitation to Britwell (hence the identification of Samuel Christie-Miller as the correspondent) because he "cannot keep off the demands of the printers any...

Book Trade History, Printing History £50.00
B.B. Woodward.

Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs de Salis.

Librarian at Windsor Castle (DNB). Three pages, 8vo, good condition. He has received a reply to his letter to publishers, Chapman & Hall who claim to have sent "No.II" (prob. of ‘The Fine Arts Quarterly Review,’ which appeared from May 1863 to June 1867, which Woodward founded and edited) at...

Book Trade History, Royalty £45.00
B.J. Marsollier de Vivetieres.

Manuscript. Funeral oration unsigned.

French dramatist. One page, 4to, some damage in corner with loss of serval letters and words, with corrections. Note on reverse in different hand make the ascription to Marsollier: "Oraison funebre de Monsieur Marsollier [prononcee?] le 13 Avril 1815 / autographe". Oration to a "femme jeune...

French, Music and Theatre £450.00
B.L. Farjeon, novelist

Autograph Letter Signed to "William Lyster", operatic entrepreneur, introduced Wagner to Australia.

One page, 8vo, grubby but text clear and complete. He introduces a colleague from his Green Room, Frederick Mervin, whom he describes as a good fellow as well as an actor and singer of ability. He hopes his correspondent will make Mervin's "trip to the Colonies pleasant to him (presumably...

Literature, Music and Theatre £56.00
B.W. Chidlaw, A.M.

Yr American; yn Cynwys Nodau ar Daith O Ddyffryn Ohio i Gymru golwg ar Dalaeth Ohio, Hanes Sefydliadau Cymreig yn America . . .

48pp., 12mo, unopened save title, original green wrappers, chipped, good condition"Yr Ail Argraffiad" (Second edition - no record found of a "First"). The author, in a "Notice" (the only English in the work), says "I have disposed of my Book called "The American," to Mr. J. Jones Printer,...

History, Social history, Travel and Topography £800.00
Banks, Merwin & Co., Auctioneers, Broadway, New York [Auction Catalogue]

Catalogue of Fourteen Thousand Portraits of Authors, Actors, Legislators, Ministers and Celebrated Men and Women of All Countries. The Largest Sale that has ever taken place in the United States. [...] by Edelinck, Lemperour, Bause, Schidt, Doo [...]

Octavo: 18 pp. Unbound: stabbed and unstitched. First leaf and leaves with pp. 15/16 and 17/18 loose. Leaves with pp.3/4 and 15/16 half-separated. Paper discoloured and chipping at edges. Extends to 918 lots. The odd number of leaves implies the loss of a final leaf, possibly bearing text. Stamp...

Literature, Military and Naval History, Music and Theatre, Natural History, Royalty, Science, Medicine and Technology, Social history, Travel and Topography, Women £100.00
Barbara Hofland

Fragment of Autograph Letter Signed to her 'Cousin'.

Author (1770-1844) and friend of Miss Mitford. Paper dimensions roughly three and a half inches by one inch. Slightly discoloured, creased, and with one small closed tear. Read 'Believe me dear friend, | your truly affectionate Cousin | B Hofland'.

Literature, Women £23.00
Barbara Hofland.

Autograph Letter Signed to [L. Williams](an artist).

Novelist (1770-1844)(DNB). One page, 4to, bifoliate (blank except for Williams' name and address), some marking but text clear and complete. "I am much pleased with the design inclosed but have to observe that I think the tall boy a little too tall and that his trousers have more the look of a...

Art and Architecture, Book Trade History, Literature, Women £100.00
Barbara Hofland.

Part of an autograph letter to "Mrs Sterndale".

Novelist. The two surviving pages, 4to, from a lengthy letter which has already been crudely repaired but which has an additional tear which does not, however, lead to textual loss. "I was very much rejoiced at the sight of your truly welcome letter" except that it announced a death. She...

Literature, Women £100.00