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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Count Primo Magri, Italian dwarf entertainer AND "Mrs Genl Tom Thumb", later married to Magri. [ Count and Comtess Magri, dwarf entertainers ] Autographs of Count Primo Magri and the Comtesse M.L. Magri (Mrs General Tom Thumb Page from an autograph album, 16.5 x 12cm, containing autographs as follows: "Compliments of \| Count Primo Magri \| from Bologna \| Italy \|\| Comtess [sic] M L Magri (Mrs Genl Tom Thumb)", filling the page. Overleaf signatures of C. W. Couldock, American Shakespearian Actor; Theodore Thomas,...		£600.00
N. E. S. A. Hamilton [Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytage Hamilton (d.1915)] of the Manuscript Department of the British Museum; John Payne Collier (1789-1883), Shakespearian critic and forger [Two printed works bound together.] Hamilton's 'An Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier's Annotated Shakspere' and 'Mr. J. Payne Collier's reply to Mr. N. E. S. Hamilton's "Inquiry"'. Both works first editions, and both in good condition, on aged paper. Bound together in late nineteenth-century red cloth half-binding, with marbled boards. Title on spine: 'COLLIER CONTROVERSY \| H.R.H. \| 1919'. Hamilton title in full: 'An Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Manuscript...	Literature	£200.00
Nicholas Hardinge (1699-1758) and James West (1703-1772), Joint Secretaries of the Treasury [Charles Compton (1698-1755), Paymaster of Pensions and Member of Parliament] [James West and Nathaniel Hardinge, Joint Secretaries to the Treasury.] Eight itemised manuscript Treasury money orders, each signed by one of them and made out to Paymaster of Pensions Charles Compton. The eight items show signs of damp damage, with flaking and some loss of text. Four of the eight are made out for specific individuals, and four for groups of persons, are each foolscap 8vo, with five of them 1p. long, and three of them 2pp. long. Each written on the first leaf of a bifolium,...	Economics	£500.00
Sir Henry Irving [John Henry Brodribb] (1838-1905), English stage actor and actor-manager [Sir Henry Irving.] Eight collotype proof sepia engravings, seven showing him - five of them in character - and the other a scene of a dilapidated building. The eight images are arranged in four pairs, each on the central pages of an 8vo bifolium. Dimensions of page: 24.5 x 16cm. Dimensions of image: 9 x 14cm. In fair condition, on lightly-aged and creased paper. Irving is shown in five roles, including Lear, Shylock, and Becket. Also present are...	Music and Theatre, Printing History	£120.00
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