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Walter Williams of Rose Inn, proprietor of Albion Iron Works, West Bromwich [Messrs Thomson Hankey & Co, London merchant bankers]

[Albion Iron Works, West Bromwich.] Autograph Letter Signed from the proprietor Walter Williams to London bankers Messrs Thomson Hankey & Co, regarding the purchase of 'nails & chains' for casks.

1p., 4to. Bifolium, addressed on the reverse of the second leaf to 'Messrs. Thomson Hankey <& Co> | Merchants | 7 Mincing Lane | London'. The second leaf is also docketed, and carries two circular postmarks, one from 'WEST BROMWICH'. Williams writes that he has returned to find 'an...

£60.00
Will Spens, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

[Printed pamphlet.] The English College System. A Lecture by Will Spens, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge before Yale University, 19 October 1933.

19pp., 12mo. Stitched; in light-brown printed wraps. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper. With stamp, label and shelfmarks of the Board of Education Reference Library. Two copies on OCLC WorldCat and none on COPAC.

£80.00
Wm. Avery Adams [William Avery Adams] [scholarships in Victorian Bristol]

[Printed pamphlet.] Guide to the Scholarships of Bristol, by Wm. Avery Adams.

31pp., 12mo. In yellow printed wraps. In good condition, on aged paper, with rusting to staples and stamp and label of the Education Department Library, London. Giving details of 27 scholarships, from 'Abraham Birkin's Charity' and 'Alice Coles' Chairty' to 'Training College Scholarships' and '...

£60.00
[The University College of Hull, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire]

[Printed pamphlet.] The University College of Hull. First Report of Council and Accounts For the period 10th February, 1925, to 6th October, 1927.

23pp., 12mo. In brown printed wraps. Good, on lightly-aged paper, in lightly worn and creased wraps. Shelfmark, stamp and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, London. Scarce: no copy on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.

£120.00
[University of Liverpool, Department of Education]

[Printed pamphlet.] University of Liverpool. Department of Education. Prospectus. Session 1929-30.

24pp., 12mo. In brown printed wraps. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with rusting to staples. Shelfmarks, stamp and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, London. Scarce: no copies on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.

£50.00
[University of London, Board to promote the Extension of University Teaching, London]

[Printed pamphlet.] University of London. Board to promote the Extension of University Teaching (Local Lectures). Method, Regulations, and Courses.

42pp., 12mo. Stitched pamphlet. In yellow-brown printed wraps. In good condition, on aged paper, with shelfmarks, stamp and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, London. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, or on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.

£65.00
C. H. Becker, Sometime Professor in the University of Berlin and Kultus-Minister in Prussia [University of London Institute of Education]

[Printed 'University of London Institute of Education' pamphlet.] Educational Problems in the Far and Near East. Three Lectures delivered in the Institute.

44pp., 4to. With frontispiece photographic portrait of the author. In grey printed wraps. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper in loose front and back wraps detached from one another. Stamps, shelfmarks and label of the Ministry of Education Reference Library, London. Six copies on COPAC....

£60.00
Dr Innocenz Grafe [Dr I. Grafe], Viennese art historian, translator and book editor, primarily with the London firm Phaidon [Giles Henry Robertson (1913-1987), Italian Renaissance expert]

[Dr Innocenz Grafe [Dr I. Grafe], Viennese art historian; Rembrandt.] Typed Letter Signed, asking art historian Giles Robertson, on behalf of Prof. Otto Benesch and his publishers Phaidon, if he will assist with ‘stylistic revision’

Grafe’s putative intelligence work during the war is referenced in Helen Fry’s ‘The Walls Have Ears | The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II’ (2019). He worked as translator and editor from as early as 1950 (for Phaidon) and 1986 (for Thames and Hudson). Nigel Spivey, in his ‘...

£80.00
E. R. Bernard [Edward Russell Bernard], M.A., Canon of Salisbury, editor

[Printed booklet in 'Laurie's Kensington Series.'] A Scheme of Moral Instruction For Teachers in Public Elementary Schools.

57 + [1]pp., 12mo. In green quarter-binding, with cloth spine and paper boards, with title printed on front board. In good condition, lightly-aged, with shelfmark, stamps and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, London. The only copy of this second edition on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat...

£50.00
Edwin Deller, LL.D., Principal of the University of London [University of London Institute of Education]

[Printed 'University of London Institute of Education' pamphlet.] Tendencies in University Education. Being the First John Adams Lecture given in the Institute.

19 + [1]pp., 4to. In grey printed wraps. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, in worn wraps, with minor indentations to cover and title leaf. Stamps, shelfmarks and label of the Ministry of Education Reference Library, London. Eight copies on COPAC.

£50.00