RESTON

[ Printed catalogue. ] The Denholm Collection of Autograph Letters and Ancient Curious Documents.

Author: 
George Denholm of Press Castle, near Reston, Berwickshire [ The Denholm Collection of Autographs ]
Publication details: 
Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1903.
£120.00

[4] + 74pp., 8vo. In good condition, aged and worn. In worn red cloth binding, with title in gilt on spine and front cover. A brief description of the more than 800 items in the collection, which was arranged in ten volumes. Occasional entries feature quotations. Of interest is Vol. I, item 58: 'Winston Churchill, M.P., from Government House, Natal, in which he says: - | [five line quotation from the letter follows]'. See also vol.4, item 11: 'Napoleon I.

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