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Autograph notebook by the biographer and antiquary Thomas Wright of Olney, containing rough drafts of an apparently-unpublished story or novel ('My Little Lady. A Story without a Moral'), and of a lecture on Daniel Defoe and Stoke Newington.

12mo, 134 pp each on one side of a ring-punched loose leaf, with the leaves attached by green thread within an original worn buckram binder with discoloured endpapers. The leaves themselves in good condition on lightly-aged paper; with those of the draft story ruled in red, and sometimes...

[Chapbook] The Art of Swimming rendered easy; with Directions to Learners. To which is prefixed, Advice to bathers, by Dr. B. Franklin.

Unbound, on six loose leaves folded to make bifoliums. Good, though grubby and with rough edges (particularly the head). Text clear and entire. 12mo, 24 pages. Cover features woodcut of eighteenth-century gentleman (Franklin?) leaning on stick. Sections on 'Swimming like a dog', 'To beat the...

Letter, secretarial, Signed "A. Komiloff", presumably of the Russian Navy and perhaps relative of Admiral Komilov of Crimea fame, to Admiral R. Vesey Hamilton of the Royal Navy, about British fleet visiting Vladivostok.

One page, 4to,fold marks, good condition. In English as follows: "The harbour of Vladivostock is not bvery large indeed, but still there is sufficient room for the wellcom [sic] guests, who are now present, and as you wish that I let you know where some of [H J Bitt?] ships, belonging to your...

Autograph Signature ('B. J. Dale').

On piece of laid paper (roughly 8.5 x 16 cm) cut from diary. On aged paper with wear and 1 cm closed tear at head. Clear and clean signature, beneath the heading 'July 17'.