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H. Rider Haggard. Part of an autograph letter signed to an unnamed correspondent (editor or publisher?) Fragment of a letter, c.3.5" x 3", laid down on slightly larger card, surving text as follows: "I have no story suitable. Hope you had a pleasant trip. Very truly yours / H Rider Haggard". |
£85.00 | |
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Advertising artwork [ LONDON UNDERGROUND; SWAN VESTA; TOBACCO; SMOKING] Attractive illustration, in red, green, yellow and black, on piece of white card roughly nine and three-quarter inches by six and a quarter, neatly mounted on piece of black card roughly ten and a quarter inches by seven and three-quarters. At head a parody of the London Underground black... |
£75.00 | |
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Frank H Wedgwood [ Francis Hamilton Wedgwood; Josiah Wedgwood ] Chairman of the famous pottery firm Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, Ltd (1867-1930), and High Sheriff of Staffordshire. All items are very good, if somewhat grubby. The typed letters are one page, quarto and the autograph, one page, octavo. All are signed 'Frank H Wedgwood', and most are stamped and... |
£250.00 | |
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Honourable Josiah Wedgwood Managing Director of the famous pottery business ('saviour of the firm') and the fifth in the family to bear the name (1899-1968), Member of Parliament. All six items in good condition, though grubby, and with the first three bearing pin holes in one corner (not affecting text), the hole in the... |
£250.00 | |
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Sir Benjamin Baker English civil engineer (1840-1907), who built the Forth Rail Bridge and worked on the Metropolitan and District Railways of the London Underground. Both items one page, octavo, on grey paper. Both in good condition, stamped and docketed. The note, signed 'B. Baker', reads 'I am sorry to say the... |
£26.00 | |
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Sir Charles Stuart Bayley Four Autograph Letters Signed to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. Indian civil servant (1854-1935) whose posts included those of Under-Secretary to the Governments of Bengal and India. All four items signed 'Chas. S. Bayley'. All four items one page, 12mo. The last three, all on grey paper, very good; the first somewhat grubby and creased, and with two... |
£56.00 | |
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Sir John Wolfe Wolfe-Barry Two Autograph Letters Signed to [Sir Henry Trueman Wood,] the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. British railway engineer (1836-1918). Both items very good, and both stamped and docketed, and signed 'J. Wolfe-Barry'. LETTER ONE: one page, octavo. 'I have much pleasure in accepting the Office of Vice President of the Society and shall be glad, as an ex-officio member of the Council to be... |
£45.00 | |
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Sir Lawrence Gowing Painter and art historian (1918-91). The two items are both very good, attached to one another by a staple in a corner. The copy of Samson's letter (one page quarto, very good, on yellow paper) explains that the Society is 'endeavouring to arrange a course of three Cantor Lectures next Spring on... |
£38.00 | |
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Sir Wyke Bayliss Two Autograph Postcards Signed to Sir Henry Trueman Wood, [Secretary,] The Society of Arts. Artist and art historian (1835-1906), President of the Royal Society of British Artists. Both items very good, if somewhat grubby, and both stamped and docketed, and signed 'Wyke Bayliss'. Both postcards with postmark over printed stamp. POSTCARD ONE: 'I was dining last night with Dr Richardson... |
£32.00 | |
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Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase Typed Note Signed to Sir Harry Lindsay, Royal Society of Arts. English mediaeval and art historian (1898-1974), Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art. One page, landscape octavo. Good, but with one corner creased and grubby, and with staple holes in another. 'I should be much honoured to be nominated as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and should... |
£32.00 |
