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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Eliz[abeth] Harris, bookseller, stationer, printer, bookbinder (adds to BBTI) Receipt, printed heading, signed "E Harris". One page, 6.5 x 5.5", good condition. Payment for one number of "Blackwood's Magazine". Note spelling "Recieved".	Book Trade History, Printing History, Women	£75.00
Eliza Cook (1812-1889), English poet and journalist Signed Autograph inscription. On a piece of pink paper, roughly 9 x 11 cm. Neatly laid down onto a piece of white paper. Very good. A reply to a request for an autograph. Reads 'I am \| my dear Lady \| Yours truly \| [signed] Eliza Cook'. The signature is firm and bold, with a small part of the flourish beneath it shaved away...	Literature, Women	£28.00
Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974), Anglo-Polish mathematician, historian of science, author and polymath [ Eric Roll (1907-2005), Baron Roll of Ipsden, economics and banker ] [ Jacob Bronowski, mathematician, historian of science and polymath. ] Duplicated draft typescript of his essay 'The Disestablishment of Science', with signed authorship inscription to the economist Eric Roll, asking for help. [1] + 22pp., 8vo. On 23 leaves stapled together. In fair condition, aged and worn. The covering page, with title 'THE DISESTABLISHMENT OF SCIENCE \| J. Bronowski', carries a synopsis of Bronowski's argument: 'Scientists have a duty to act as the conscience of society by always speaking the truth...		£300.00
Eliza Johnstone Autograph Letter Signed to T[homas]. F[rederick]. Dillon Croker. British actress (born c. 1836). In the 1881 census Johnstone features as a visitor in the house of the actor-manager John Laurence Toole (1830-1906). Three pages, 12mo. Good, though grubby and with a few stains. In envelope with penny red stamp and black wax seal, addressed to Croker at 9 Pelham...	Music and Theatre, Women	£45.00
Eliza Lynn Linton Autograph Postcard Signed to 'Mrs. Black'. Novelist and miscellaneous writer (1822-98). Dimensions roughly five inches by three. Grubby and with minor fraying, loss and closed tears to edges (not affecting text). Printed halfpenny stamp and two postmarks in black ink. Addressed to 'Mrs. Black \| 5 Hazlitt Road \| W. Kensington \| W.' 'I...	History, Literature, Women	£56.00
Elizabeth [Eliza] Lynn Linton (1822-1898), Victorian writer Autograph Letter Signed ('E: Lynn Linton') to 'Miss Shapland'. 12mo: 3 pp. 26 lines of text. Good, on lightly creased and aged paper. Chatty, apologetic letter. She thanks her for her invitation for the following day but she is already engaged. Unclear reference to 'Sir Boyle Roche's bird'. She would like to see her again, but 'I dare not make any...	Literature, Women	£45.00
Elena Danieli, Soprano Signed 'Programme of Olde Tyme Melody' (Burslem Orpheus Male Voice Choir; Elena Danieli, soprano) Printed Programme, 4pp., 8vo, blue, not bound, staining on fold marks, mainly good condition. Elena Danieli has signed top left of front cover. It gives the Programme of music with performers and a list of President and Vice-Presidents of the Choir..	Music and Theatre	£28.00
Elizabeth Arden [Florence Nightingale Graham (1878-1966)] Collection of correspondence from Elizabeth Arden Ltd to agents Franklyn and Doris Rogers, Messrs Titcumbs, Chatham, including an Autograph Letter Signed ('Elizabeth Arden') from Arden, and 40 Typed Letters Signed from director T. Gordon Yates. The collection of fifty-three Typed Letters Signed and six mimeographed circulars, in various formats, is in good condition on lightly-aged paper, with all texts clear and complete, and with a couple of items with closed tears. Providing an interesting sidelight into workings of the English...	Economics, Social history	£325.00
Elizabeth Brunton, a letter addressed to her signed on behalf of the solicitors Maggison & <Preught>, Lessee of the Adelphi Theatre. English actress (1799-1860), wife of the actor Frederick Henry Yates (1795-1842). 2 pp, 12mo. An interesting letter to "Mrs. Yates" shedding light on the theatre mores of the period. "Mr. Beckett & Mr. Wilson two gentlemen who went together to the Adelphi on...	Music and Theatre	£35.00
Brian Aherne [ William Brian de Lacy Aherne ] (1902-1986), British Hollywood actor [ Brian Aherne, British Hollywood actor. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('Brian Aherne') to 'Mr. Cathrey', regarding an invitation to take part in a cricket match. 1p., 8vo. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. He has 'not played cricket for twenty years, so you had better not count on me!' He will 'try to turn up as a spectator', and if Cathrey will send him a card, he will make 'a special effort to do so at Mesa, whichh I have visited several times...		£25.00