Eight Autograph Letters Signed "Stanley" to Messrs Routledge, publishers.

Diplomatist and orientalist (see DNB). Total 20pp., 8vo, good condition. The main subject is illustrations of animals and birds perhaps relating to a book (a "book" is mentioned) which I cannot trace in NSTC, etc., but perhaps multiple copies of pages of illustrations of monkeys, kangaroos, cats, dogs, birds, seals, squirrels, etc. His first letter is dated 27 July 1851 (signed "Stanley" by Henry had not yet succeeded to the title[?]) and he asks "Will you commence printing a thousand of the monkeys. How many thousand sheets would form a convenient parcel . . . 6000 . . ." He encloses a further list of plates, discussing numbers, varieties, etc. In later letters (all dated 1871) he discusses proofs, the expert opinion of a friend, request for further proofs, discusses detail, criticises the printer (some annotation by the publishers on detail), asks for Wood's Illustrated Natural History to be sent to Ahmed Vefyk Effendi in Constantinople, gives suggestions, "I want next year to get the birds done", sheets to be sent to Constantinople. Eight items,