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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Edward Unwin Junior [Unwin Brothers Ltd; The Gresham Press] Typed Letter Signed to Sir Henry Truman Wood, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts, together with a cancelled printed application form for membership of the Society. Chairman of Unwin Brothers (born 1870). One page, quarto. Good, but discoloured and lightly creased, and with staple stain at head. Docketed and bearing the Society's stamp. He is sorry not to have answered sooner, but 'some very important business has engaged my attention during the last few...	Book Trade History, Printing History	£35.00
Edward Verrall Lucas Autograph Note Signed to R. S. McMinn. English essayist and biographer (1868-1938). Plain postcard, dimensions roughly 4 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches. Grubby and smudged, with central vertical crease. Deleted printed letterhead '176, VICTORIA STREET, \| (CORNER OF BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROAD.) \| S.W.1.' Reads '41 Sloane St \| Many thanks...	Literature	£25.00
Edward Verrall Lucas Autograph Signature. English essayist and biographer of Charles Lamb (1868-1938). 1 page, dimensions approximately 4 inches by 6 inches. Somewhat grubby and creased. Reads 'Feb 26\| 1919 \| with E V Lucas's \| compliments'.	Literature	£20.00
Edward Verrall Lucas Signed uncashed bank cheque payable to J. H. Thorpe. English essayist and biographer (1868-1938). Attractive printed cheque in black and blue ink on light blue paper: dimensions roughly 7 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches. The cheque is for sixpence, and a pencil note (presumably by Thorpe) on the reverse explains how it results from a lost wager: '...	Literature	£30.00
Edward Verrall Lucas Typed Letter Signed to Betty Ross. English essayist and biographer of Charles Lamb (1868-1938). One page, quarto. Good only, on discoloured and creased paper. Lucas finds Ross's 'Heads and tales, etc.' (London: Rich & Cowan, 1934), a collection of interviews with the famous, 'incorrigibly lively'. 'I do not share all your...	Literature	£38.00
Edward Verrall Lucas Typed Letter Signed to R[ainforth]. A[rmitage]. Walker of the Print Collector's Quarterly. One page, quarto. Poor, on creased, discoloured paper, with two punch holes in left-hand margin and short closed tears along the central fold. 'It is as well that you underlined your name in print, for I cannot detect the faintest resemblance between it and your signature. Is this the fault of...	Art and Architecture, Literature	£56.00
Edward Verrall Lucas (1868-1938), English author; Grant Richards (1872-1948), English publisher Eight items relating to royalties due from Richards for Lucas's 'The Open Road' following Richards' bankruptcy. The collection as a whole is in good condition, although lightly creased in places and somewhat dusty and aged. All items have unobtrusive pinholes, and Item Seven has fraying and closed tears to extremities. An interesting correspondence casting light on publishing practices at the turn of the...	Book Trade History, Printing History	£220.00
Edward Walford (1823-97), topographer, genealogist, antiquary and editor of 'Once a Week' and 'The Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer' Ten Autograph Letters Signed (all 'E Walford') to a number of different correspondents (including A., F. and H. Barker, Mrs Ratcliffe and a newspaper editor named 'Taylor'). All items good, though on dusty and aged paper. Five items are addressed to sellers of manuscripts (probably the same individual). ONE (to H. Barker, 23 April 1885, on letterhead of 'The Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer', one page, octavo): Asks to be offered Wellesley autographs purchased...	History, Literature, Travel and Topography	£400.00
Edward Willard Autograph notes signed (x 5). English actor (1853-1915), admired for his melodramatic villains. The first, to Mr Philip, 14 December 1903, St. James's Theatre, one page, 12mo. "Herewith a cheque for one guinea in exchange for the dinner ticket you sent me a week or so since". The other three all written to Allan Gomme in...	Music and Theatre	£40.00
Edward William Cooke (1811-80), marine painter; Charles George Lewis (1808-80), engraver Engraving by Lewis, after Cooke, of 'CALAIS PIER'. On India paper roughly three and a half inches by six and a half wide, mounted on a thick piece of wove paper ten inches by fourteen and a half. Cooke's name is engraved on the illustration, and printed on the mount are the title, Lewis's name and a double ruled border. Good clear impression....	Art and Architecture, Travel and Topography	£265.00