Autograph Note Signed ('Geo Gregory') to 'Mr Hawley'.

Author: 
George Gregory, Bath bookseller
Publication details: 
4 June 1919; on firm's ornate letterhead.
£75.00
SKU: 4983

One page, on paper roughly seven inches by eight wide. Good, on lightly creased paper. Stamped with date. He thanks his correspondent for 'the typed list'. Headed 'Memorandum from | GEORGE GREGORY, Book Merchant, Library Buyer and Exporter, | The Imperial Book Store, | 5 and 5a ARGYLE STREET, BATH. | Out-of-Print and Rare, or Out-of-the-Way Books sought for and reported promptly, with option of purchase. Send me your List of Wants. | Licensed Valuer. Stock well classified in Thirty Rooms. Libraries Purchased. | Bankers: UNION OF LONDON & SMITHS BANK, LTD., BATH. | One of the Largest and Finest Stocks of Second-hand Books in the World. - Catalogues Post Free.' Royal Warrant in top left-hand corner, where Gregory is described as 'Bookseller to HER MAJESTY QUEEN ALEXANDRA.' Gregory's firm was taken over by Bayntun's in 1920. George A. Wheeler contributed a vivid portrait of Gregory to 'Biblionotes' in October 1954. ('He could convince a customer that the book he was showing him was the very one he had been looking for for years and the opportunity of acquiring it would never occur again.')