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Copy of ‘Poems by C. Edmund Maurice / Edited by Emily Southwood Maurice’, with presentation inscription to Queen’s College Library, London, from ‘Mrs C. S. Maurice’., sister of the School's founder

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C. Edmund Maurice (1843-1927), historian, and his wife Emily Southwood Maurice [née Hill] (1840-1931), sister of the reformer Octavia Hill
Publication details: 
Book published in 1929 by Methuen & Co. Ltd., 36 Essex Street W.C., London. Inscription dated 1931.
£150.00

See the entries for Mrs Maurice’s sister Octavia Hill and their mother Caroline Southwood Hill in the Oxford DNB. Book: viii + 77 + [1]. 12mo. Errata slip between pp.56 and 57. In original green cloth, gilt. Good copy, lightly aged and worn, in original green cloth binding gilt. Bookplate of Queen’s College, London, on front paste-down, stamped ‘WITHDRAWN’. Presentation inscription on recto of front free endpaper: ‘Queens College Library / Presented by Mrs C. S. Maurice / 1931’.

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Autograph Note Signed ('Richard Southwood') to 'Mr Ladkin'.

Author: 
Sir Richard Southwood (1931-2005), Professor of Zoology and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Sir Richard Southwood, Professor of Zoology, Letter
Publication details: 
10 October 1986; on letterhead of the National Radiological Protection Board.
£38.00
Sir Richard Southwood, Professor of Zoology, Letter

8vo, 1 p. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, with a couple of punch holes to the left margin (one through a word of text). Thanking him for his 'kd letter of appreciation of my work as chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution'. He now has 'another public duty concerned with the same field'.

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