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Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889), English journalist of Irish extraction, editor of the Art Journal [Art Union] Autograph Letter Signed ('S C Hall') ['To Mrs G. Barrow']. 8vo: 1 p. Good, with slight wear to outer edge, and strip from previous mount neatly adhering to reverse. With name of recipient at head, and docketed on reverse. He has 'seen some charming & useful Leaflets advocating Humanity to Animals' and has been 'led to understand they may be obtained... |
£45.00 | |
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Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901), English novelist and historian of London Autograph Notes relating to the London district of Fulham. The notes, on three 12mo bifoliums, cover three pages, with a few lines on a couple of others. In excess of eighty lines. Very good. Brief chronology and list of notable residents, presumably an outline for the description of the district in Besant's 'London' (1892) or another of his many... |
£100.00 | |
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Thomas Coutts (1735-1822), London banker of Scottish extraction [Coutts & Co.] Autograph Letter in the third person to the London printseller James Caulfield (1764-1826). 12mo: 1 p. Somewjhhat grubby, but with text clear and entire. Caulfield 'has been misled in supposing Mr Coutts is inclined to collect Hogarth's or any other pictures as he has hardly ever had any taste or inclination for that Line.' |
£38.00 | |
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Tom Gallon (1866-1914), English novelist, dramatist and humourist [George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Tom Gallon') and Typed Letter Signed to Ernest Pertwee. Both items quarto. On worn, discoloured paper, with a couple of closed tears to the folds. Pertwee was the author of numerous anthologies for recitation, and these letters presumably relate to his 'Reciter's treasury of prose and drama: serious and humorous' (Routledge, 1904). TLS: 'Provided, of... |
£56.00 | |
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William Dickson; John Miller Dickson; General Henry Shadforth [Royal Military College, Bagshot; British army; military history] The collection is in good condition, with occasional light creasing. The 'Regulations' ('ON HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE') consist of four pages printed on a folio bifolium. The other printed item, in facsimile handwriting, dated '15.11.51' (and dated in manuscript 'Horse Guards 1st. February 1853'),... |
£125.00 | |
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William Dean Howells (1837-1920), American novelist and literary critic Autograph Letter Signed to 'Mr. James' [the novelist Henry James?]. 12mo: 2 pp. Good, with thin strip of glue and grey paper from previous mounting adhering at foot of reverse (not affecting text). While it is possible that Howell may have given 'Mr. Gill' [tMichael Henry Gill, later of McLashan & Gill?] 'letters [of introduction]' when he 'went to New York... |
£200.00 | |
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William Robert Spencer, playwright , poet and wit (DNB). Pp.[viii].38.[2], disbound, minor damage around stab-holes, foxing, mainly good condition. Scarce. INSCRIBED by the author (part in square brackets lost through trimming): "Countess of Harcourt - From the Au[thor]". A convict transport was presumably named after her ("Countess of Harcourt") - it... |
£225.00 | |
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James Smith [Horatio Smith], author ("Rejected Addresses" et al). Two pages, bifolium, 4to, fold marks and minor faint staining, good condition. An earlier draft of the satirical piece printed first in "Comic Miscellanies" (1840)(no other publication listed by LION, though one has to suspect an earlier periodical publication). Comparison with samples of... |
£750.00 | |
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Mary Somerville (1780-1872), Scottish scientist after whom Somerville College, Oxford is named Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Sartoris, 27 Chapel Street, London. 16mo: 3 pp. A small bifolium (each leaf 10.5 x 9 cms) on aged paper. Discoloured strip at foot of first leaf, containing four lines of text and the signature, cut away and reattached with archival tissue, with damage to two words (not in signature). Second leaf with minor damage through breaking... |
£100.00 |
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Charles Spence of the Admiralty, Devonport [John Bowyer Nichols (1779-1863); John Gough Nichols (1806-1873)] Letter One (12mo: 4 pp, to 'My dear Mr Nichols', good, on discoloured paper): Explains that he has given 'a note of introduction to a most particular friend of mine Mr Lawrence of Ipplepen near Totnes and Launceston Cornwall'. Lawrence 'was a great friend of the late Mr Arundel of Landulph' and... |
£75.00 |
