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[John Forster, biographer of Dickens] Autograph Letter Signed John Forster to My dear George.

Author: 
John Forster [(1812 – 1876), biographer and critic, friend of Charles Dickens].
Publication details: 
No place; Saturday August [20?] 1836 (the year in which he met Dickens)..
£75.00

One page, cr. 8vo, one small closed tear, fold marks, corner cut off (not affecting text), sl. crumpled, a scrawl of a handwriting. I send the parcel, which I hope will not greatly inconvenience you. | I expected to have had a parcel from [Mr?] Blackett [publisher] but I find myself unable to spare time enough [?] to accomplish it. [...] I will take another [?] early opportunity. | Let me conclude this hurried scrawl with [every?] cordial & friendly wishes - and a hope that you have quite forgiven my involuntary inattention to you on Thursday. I cannot cease regretting it.

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[Female suffrage, printed pamphlet.] The Right of Women to Labour. Reprinted from the Manchester Examiner and Times, of March 4th, 1874.

Author: 
[Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights, London] [Manchester Examiner and Times; women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
[Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights, London.] 'Frederick Bell & Co., Steam Printers, King's Road, Chelsea.' 1874.
£80.00

4pp., 12mo. Bifolium with drophead title. In fair condition, lightly-aged, disbound, with the two leaves separating. With purple oval stamp 'From the Secretary of the Vigilance Association, 2, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, S.W.' One copy on open market.

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[Pamphlet.] Village Board Schools: A Defence and a Plea.

Author: 
William Slater, member of Shepley School Board [Yorkshire]
Publication details: 
Reprinted from the "Huddersfield Examiner" of Saturday, May 27th, 1899.
£56.00

8pp., 12mo. Stapled. In grey printed wraps. With stamps, shelfmarks and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged and worn paper. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, or on COPAC.

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