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Alf Mac Lochlainn, former Director of the National Library of Ireland, author, etc, Editor of The Irish Book. [Alf Mac Lochlainn, editor; periodical.] The Irish Book, volume One, Number Two WITH related Autograph Letter Signed by Mac Lochlainn to Mrs [Cathleen] O'Duffy, widow of Eimar O'Duffy, author of The Wasted Island etc. [Periodical] 60pp., 8vo, good condition. It includes Eimar O'Duffy: A bibliographical biography. The enclosed letter is two pages, 12mo, stained edges, but text complete and clear, as follows: I now enclose a copy of the issue of The Irish Book in which my article on Eimar O'Duffy appeared. It...		£120.00
Alfred Emden, First Superintendent of Alexandra Palace (opened 1873). [Alfred Emden, First Superintendent of Alexandra Palace] Autograph Note Signed Alfred Emden to Greenwood [T.L. Greenwood, playwright] asking for the Pantomime Manuscript. 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] [Anthony Hope Hawkins; Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator; Gibson Girls] Autograph Note Signed to Mr Arrowsmith [J.W. Arrowsmith, original publisher of The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and Rupert of Hentzau (1898)]. 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, sitter to Lewis Carroll and first Head of St Margaret's House, Bethnal Green. ] 13 Autograph Letters Signed, eight of them to her brother Richard Harington, and four to the widow of her cousin Sir Richard Harington. 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 [Copley Fielding, English landscape painter.] Autograph Letter Signed, suggesting that an unnamed lady bring 'Mrs Sharp' to see 'the pictures which I have prepared for the Exhibition'. 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] [Cuala Press, Dublin.] Printed item: number of ‘A Broadside’, limited to 300 copies, with poems by James Stephens and Michael Moran (‘Zozimus’), set to music by Arthur Duff, each with hand-coloured illustration by Victor Brown. From the Lynd archive. 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] [Cuala Press, Dublin.] Printed publication: number of ‘A Broadside’, limited to 300 copies, with two poems, one by Padraic Colum, set to music by Arthur Duff, each with a hand-coloured illustration by Harry Kernoff. From the Lynd archive. 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 [‘The foremost diplomat of his age’: James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury.] Autograph Letter Signed to a cleric near Cranbourn, apparently concerning the inadvisability of introducing Portland sheep onto his estate. 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), ] [‘Take no notice of the error’: John Fielder Mackarness, Bishop of Oxford.] Autograph Letter Signed (‘J. F. Oxon:’) to ‘Mr Hutchison’, setting forth his position on the question of incest between ‘aged people’. 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 [John Jackson, Northumbrian wood engraver who was apprenticed to Bewick.] Autograph Letter Signed to the printers and publishers Vizetelly, Branston & Co, asking to be sent four copies of ‘The Young Lady’s Book’ (presumably containing his work). 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