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Author, Title, Summary | Subject | Price | |
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Alfred Emden, First Superintendent of Alexandra Palace (opened 1873). One page, 12mo, sl. worn and stained but text clear and complete. Dear Sir | I hope you would be able to let me have the Pantomime Manuscript within this week.. WITH: [on verson] Copy of answer, as follows: Dear Sir, | The work is now in the Blanchards hands - I saw him yesterday when he told me... |
£56.00 | ||
Anthony Hope Hawkins [Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator] Card, 11.5 x 9cm, rounded corners, good condition. Dear Mr Arrowsmith, | I have answered enclosed saying I have no power to give [permission?]. The copyright [for illustrations] is Gibson's [underlined} subject to your right to use the pictures with the story [phrase underlined][...]. |
£150.00 | ||
Beatrice Cecilia Harington (1852-1936), sitter to and friend of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson [ Lewis Carroll ], first Head of St Margaret's House, Bethnal Green [ Brasenose College, Oxford ] Beatrice Cecilia Harington was one of the two daughters of Rev. Dr Richard Harington (1800-1853), Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. As children she and her sister Alice Margaret (1854-1901) were befriended by Lewis Carroll, who photographed them. Neither of the two girls married, but both... |
£320.00 | ||
Copley Fielding [Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding] (1787-1855), English painter noted for his watercolour landscapes, born in Sowerby, Yorkshire See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, slightly discoloured, with traces of grey paper mount adhering to the blank reverse. Folded once for postage. The year is not given, but the water mark appears to read ‘[18]21’. Good clear signature. Fielding writes: ‘My Dear Madam... |
£45.00 | ||
Cuala Press, Dublin; James Stephens; Michael Moran (‘Zozimus’); Victor Brown [‘A Broadside’: W. B. Yeats and F. R. Higgins, eds; Arthur Duff, musical ed.; Robert and Sylvia Lynd] An attractive item on four unpaginated folio pages, in a bifolium. Uncommon. In fair condition, lightly aged and creased, but not folded. Drophead title: ‘No. 8 (New Series) August 1935. / A Broadside / Editors: W. B. Yeats and F. R. Higgins; Musical Editor, Arthur Duff. Published monthly at the... |
£120.00 | ||
Cuala Press, Dublin; Padraic Colum; Harry Kernoff [‘A Broadside’: W. B. Yeats and F. R. Higgins, eds; Arthur Duff, musical ed.; Robert and Sylvia Lynd] An attractive item on four unpaginated folio pages, in a bifolium. Uncommon. In fair condition, lightly aged and creased, but not folded, with small closed tear at head of first leaf. Drophead title: ‘No. 7 (New Series) July 1935. / A Broadside / Editors: W. B. Yeats and F. R. Higgins; Musical... |
£120.00 | ||
James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury (1746-1820), ‘the foremost diplomat of his age’, British envoy to Russia who impressed Catherine the Great See his entry in the Oxford DNB and the History of Parliament (‘the foremost diplomat of his age’). It was Malmesbury who went to Brunswick to fetch the Prince Regent’s betrothed Princess Caroline, and whom he asked to get him a brandy on his first encounter with her three years before the... |
History | £90.00 | |
John Fielder Mackarness (1820-1889), Bishop of Oxford [Rev. Robert Hutchison (c.1845-1919), ] An interesting letter, revealing the nuanced position of a liberal cleric on a difficult question. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 4pp, 12mo. On bifolium. Signed ‘J. F. Oxon:’. Text clear and entire, on creased and worn paper, with two short closed tears at edges. Folded twice for postage.... |
£90.00 | ||
John Jackson (1801-1848), Northumbrian wood engraver, apprenticed to Thomas Bewick, whom he left after a quarrel, going to work under William Harvey in London See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. On recto of the first leaf of a bifolium, the verso of the second leaf of which carries the address to ‘Messrs Vizetely [sic] Branston & Co / 135 Fleet St’. The firm, who traded between 1827 and 1837, were not only ‘engravers and oriental printers... |
£120.00 | ||
Lord Farnborough [Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough; Sir Charles Long] (1760-1838), Pittite politician and connoisseur of the arts See his entries in the Oxford DNB and History of Parliament. A loyal Pittite (‘publicity agent for the ministry’, and founder of the Tory ‘Sun’ newspaper) who served as Irish Secretary. As a connoisseur he had a strong influence on the taste of the Prince of Wales, besides recommending the... |
£45.00 |