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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Johnston Forbes-Robertson Autograph note signed to Mr [?] Stewart, English actor-manager (1853-1937), knighted in 1913. One page, 12mo. "My dear Mr Stewart / I am so sorry, but I am engaged next Sunday. I wish it were otherwise. With very kind regards / Believe me to be / Sincerely / J. Forbes-Robertson." Traces of glue and mount on blank reverse.	Music and Theatre	£15.00
Johnston Forbes-Robertson Autograph note signed to unnamed correspondent, English actor-manager (1853-1937), knighted in 1913. One page, 8vo. Clearly in reply to a request for an autograph, "Yours truly / J. Forbes Robertson." Slight ink staining to one corner.	Music and Theatre	£15.00
Johnston Forbes-Robertson Autograph note signed to unnamed correspondent, English actor-manager (1853-1937), knighted in 1913. One page 12mo. What is clearly a reply to a request for an autograph, "Yours very truly, / Johnston Forbes-Robertson. / Feb: 1928." Mounted, with slight ruckling, on a piece of pink paper, docketed "Sir J Forbes Robertson / great actor /...	Music and Theatre	£12.00
Jonathan Belcher [Nova Scotia] Autograph Signature. First Chief Justice of Nova Scotia (1710-76). Flyleaf detached from octavo volume and neatly mounted on piece of white card, itself mounted on larger piece of grey card. While the mounts are in good condition the leaf itself is poor, discoloured and stained. Reads in top left-hand corner '...	Law	£60.00
Jonathan Cape Limited, London publishers [Edwin Baker; Hans Tisdall; Alden Press, Oxford] Two Christmas keepsakes: 'Literary Characters', with drawings by Edwin Baker; and 'Imaginary Conversations', with cover design by Hans Tisdall. Literary Characters'. 12mo (leaf dimensions roughly 18 x 12.5 cm): 32 pp. Stitched with brown thread. Fore-edge and top-edge rough. Unbound as issued. Very good. Cartoon in red ink of man seated at typewriter on front cover, and another, in black ink, of a hatted-figure skulking away with a...	Book Trade History, Literature	£50.00
Agnes Nicholls Harty, soprano, Hamilton Harty, conductor, Frank Mullings, tenor and others Signatures on detached album leaf of Agnes Nicholls Harty, soprano, Hamilton Harty, conductor, Frank Mullings, tenor and others Page detached from album, some wear and tear but no losses, which contained numerous autographs provided at performances in Stoke mainly in the 1920s. One side of the leaf has the signatures of Agnes Nicholls Harty, Hamilton Harty, an illegible, and Frank Mullings, while overleaf are the...	Music and Theatre	£85.00
Jonathan Mawson Denwood (born c.1853?; died c.1931?), English writer in the dialect of his native Cumbria Autograph Note Signed to unnamed male correspondent. One page, quarto. Good, on lightly aged paper. Some offsetting and smudging from Denwood's folding of letter. Reads '72 Kirkgate \| Cockermouth \| Aug 8 - 1931 \| Jonathan. Mawson. Denwood \| Dear Sir, \| I send you autograph. I cannot write further At the moment I can scarcely hold a pen.'	Literature	£30.00
Sir John Powell (1645-1713), judge and politician, Member of Parliament for Gloucester [his clerk John Horsman] [Sir John Powell of Gloucester, judge and politician.] Autograph Document Signed (‘John Powell’), with signature of witness ‘W Price’, appointing his clerk John Horsman to receive his ‘Salary for Michaelmas Terme’. See Powell’s entry in the Oxford DNB. While presiding over the 1712 trial of Jane Wenham for witchcraft he ruled that there was ‘no law against flying’. 1p, long 8vo. On recto of first leaf of bifolium. Folded twice. On laid paper with government watermark, with two blind-stamped sixpenny tax...	History	£180.00
José Ignacio Rodriguez Vida de Don José de la Luz y Caballero Octavo. Pages: xii + 327. Portrait frontispiece. Scarce life of the eminent Cuban ethical philosopher and pedagogue (1800-62). No copy in British Library. INSCRIBED at length by Rodriguez ('Washington DC. \| April de 1878.') Poor copy: foxed and stained, in worn and damaged original brown cloth...		£200.00
Frederick Pegram (1870-1937), artist inc. posters. Autograph Note Signed "Fred Pegram" to J. Penderel Brodhurst, journalist and author. One page, 16mo, spike-hole, mainly good, complete and clear. "I believe the copyright of my drawings which appeared in the P.M.B. [Pall Mall Budget] belongs to us. I made a distinct arrangement to that effect with regrad to drawings I made for the P.M.[Pall Mall] Magazine, altho' I made no...		£120.00