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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Sir Robert Howard (1626-1698), English playwright and politician and Secretary to the Treasury [Sir Robert Howard, restoration playwright.] Autograph Treasury receipt, signed 'Ro: Howard'. On one side of slip of 6 x 18 cm paper. In fair condition, aged, and with traces of mount adhering to reverse. Apparently concerning an enormous sum of money, the receipt reads: 'Registered upon the Register appointed to be kept by the Act within mentioned & payable there upon of ...	Economics, History, Literature	£180.00
Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton [Sir Robert John Wilmot-Horton], 3rd Baronet (1784-1841), British politician, pamphleteer and colonial administrator [Sir Robert John Wilmot-Horton.] Autograph Letter Signed, to an unnamed recipient, expressing admiration for an article. 2pp., 12mo. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with one closed tear along a crease line repaired with archival tape. He writes: 'Dear Sir \| I have read the article, which is in the highest possible degree favorable, & the writer has thoroughly understood his subject. Could you let me...	Miscellaneous	£76.00
Althea Willoughby (1904-1982), English artist, designer of posters for London Transport, 1933-1936 [Ingpen and Grant, London publishers] [Althea Willoughby, English artist.] Two Autograph Letters Signed and one Autograph Note Signed to the publishers Ingpen and Grant regarding her designs for woodcut engravings for Alexander Somerton's 'Glades of Glenbella'. Each item is 1p., 12mo, the note being the last of the three. All written in green ink, the first on green paper, and the other two on pink paper. The three in very good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Written in an attractive, calligraphic hand. ONE: She writes that she is enclosing 'four...	Art and Architecture	£120.00
Benjamin Phelps Gibbon (1802-1851), Wesh engraver [Benjamin Phelps Gibbon, engraver.] 1p., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He reports that he shared the 'bounty' of the recipient's 'delicious present' with his brother, who has been 'confined to the house for a month'. He reports that 'Mr Watts and family are well', and hopes that 'Mr Stack is so'.	Art and Architecture	£0.00
'A Benedictine of Conception Abbey, Conception, Missouri, U.S.A.' [ Thirteenth Centennial of St. Gregory the Great ] Printed pamphlet: 'U. I. O. G. D. To the Memory of the first Benedictine Pope St. Gregory the Great on the occasion of the Thirteenth Centennial of his death 604-1904'. [ On front cover: 'Thirteenth Centennial of St. Gregory the Great'. ] [20]pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps. Disbound. In good condition, but with stitching cut away and leaves loose. A collection of poems, flashily printed in gold, red and green, on shiny art paper. Covers printed in gold, red and blue. Frontispiece illustration of the subject of the collection....		£50.00
Edward Scriven (1775-1841), engraver [Joseph Harding, bookseller, chief assistant to James Lackington (1777-1844) of Finsbury Square] [Edward Scriven, engraver.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Edwd Scriven') to the bookseller Joseph Harding regarding the retouching of his 'plate of Norfolk'. 2pp., 12mo. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Scriven begins: 'I am afraid you will have thought I had forgotten to send the plate of Norfolk: the truth is, I decided on doing a few touches to that hand noticed by you & Mr Lackington; and although it was but a very little, I did not...	Art and Architecture	£65.00
[Archibald Russell; The National Gallery, British Art; William Blake] [book, inscribed by an authority on Blake] Catalogue of Loan Exhibition of Works by William Blake. October to December, 1913. [Second Edition.] 4to, 75 pp. On aged paper, in original purple printed wraps, which are repaired at spine with tape. Inscribed at head of the front wrap to 'Mr. Tregaskis with Mr. Archibald Russell's compliments'. Russell was an authority on Blake's works, the recipient, Tregaskis, a distiguished bookseller.		£38.00
Luigi Montesanto (1887-1954), Italian baritone opera singer [Luigi Montesanto, Italian baritone opera singer.] Autograph Signature (‘Luigi Montesanto’) to part of printed English libretto to Leoncavallo’s ‘Pagliacci’. At top right-hand corner of part of printed English libretto to Leoncavallo’s ‘Pagliacci’. Dimensions: 13.5 x 17.5 cm. Sloping upwards towards the corner, and underlined: ‘Luigi Montesanto \| 1936’. On shiny art paper and in fair condition, lightly creased and a little dog-eared at the corner of...	Music and Theatre	£40.00
Dewitt Miller (1857–1911), American educator, librarian, journalist, minister, orator, and book collector [ Dewitt Miller ] Autograph Note Signed "Dewitt Miller" to Stephen Wheeler, Foreign Office, England, Editor of Landor's Letters, asking about Landor-related books. Three pages, 12mo, bifolium, very large handwriting, good condition. With envelope. "I should be glad to know if you have a copy of a book entitled Landor - a Critical Estimate [underlined) \| Evans. \| G.P. Putnam's Sons. \| Also \| Selections from Landor, made by Geo. Hillard (circa) 1850. \|...		£56.00
[Council for the Preservation of Rural England and The Roads Beautifying Association] [Pamphlet; Preservation of Rural England] Report of the Trunk Roads Joint Committee 36pp., 8vo, with photos and a folding "Diagram of the Dover Glasgow Road", green printed illustrated paper wraps, slight damage ot spine, condition mainly good. Initial sof previous owner on front cover. Three copies on COPAC (Nottingham, Kew, Brimighma, NOT BL).	Science, Medicine and Technology, Social history	£135.00