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Author, Title, Summary | Subject | Price | |
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Sir Charles Trevelyan [Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan] (1807-1886), Liberal politician and administrator in India, notorious for his response to the Irish potato famine See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with thin neat strip from windowpane mount adhering to edges. Folded twice for postage. Twenty-four hands of text in secretary hand, addressed to ‘W. A. Lock Esqre’, and signed in autograph ‘Sir C Trevelyan’.... |
History, Women | £220.00 | |
W.R. Grossmith [William Robert Grossmith, also known as Master Grossmith (1818–1899), 19th-century child actor, Master Grossmith [Infant Roscius (II)] became maker of prosthetic limbs]. An actor able to dictate terms!. One page, 4to, sl. aged, fold marks, sl. crumpled but text good and clear (in somewhat awkward handwriting). I wish my Brother - Master [?] Grossmith - to give One [sic] evenings entertainment in Hull [underlined] (on his return from Newcastle) in about a... |
£220.00 | ||
Lord Dawson of Penn [Lloyd George group visits Hitler's Germany, 1936]. A. Typed account by Dawson of a 'Visit to Labour Camp in Emsland Westphalia'. [15 September 1936.] 8pp., fol. With a few manuscript emendations. The account shows Dawson and his colleague Thomas Jones completely hoodwinked as to the nature of what was a punishment camp for political prisoners.... |
£220.00 | ||
[John Antes (1740-1811), American composer and instrument-maker, tortured by Osman Bey’s followers while a Moravian Missionary in Egypt] See the articles on Antes by Donald M. McCorkle in the Musical Quarterly, 1956, and Richard D. Claypool, in the Moravian Music Foundation Bulletin, 1978. Seven copies listed on JISC (only three in deposit libraries); now scarce. 8pp, 12mo. Disbound. In fair condition, worn and discoloured.... |
Religion | £220.00 | |
Edward Cocker [Edoardus Coccerius] (1631-1676), English calligrapher, engraver and arithmetician (‘Philomath’), whose name became proverbial because of a work of arithmetic attributed to him See his entry in the Oxford DNB. He published two dozen works on calligraphy, and Pepys described him as ‘the famous writing-master’, and employed him to engrave his slide rule, but it is as an arithmetician that he is remembered: two works published shortly after his death, purportedly from his... |
Printing History | £220.00 | |
[Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), war poet; Rev. Norman Print, Vicar of Dunsden; Catherine Winkworth; John Stallworthy; D. J. Enright; Robert Gittings; Geoffrey Hill; Ted Hughes; Reynolds Stone; Jill Balcon] A nice association with a man widely regarded as the greatest English poet of the First World War, and a scarce item of which not many copies can have been printed, and no other copy has been traced. 4pp, 8vo. Bifolium on laid paper. In fair condition, lightly aged, with slight creasing at head... |
£220.00 | ||
4th Duke of Northumberland [Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland, naval commander, explorer and Conservative politician.] Two pages, 12mo, black-bordered, bifolium, very good condition. Presuambly an answer to a question about a naval incident in 1810, perhaps for a memoir or similar being prepared by Smyth which his death in 1865 pre-empted. Text: Captain Mundt of HMS Hydra commanded at Gibraltar which was then a... |
£220.00 | ||
Gartrude Lieben, Hon. Sec. The Women Shoppers' League One page, 4to, fold marks, good condition. I remember that once, when at a P.T.A. meeting we passed a resolution - I think it was about the need for stricter supervision to prevent children going to Cinemas shopwing films intended only for adults, to make this protest more effective you... |
£220.00 | ||
‘Two Darset Maids’ [Arthur Nicholls; Dorset dialect poetry; Borough and Town of Weymouth Melcombe Regis; H. D. Warwick and W. J. Squibb, Weymouth printers] Three scarce items: no other copy traced. The three pamphlets are uniform in design, each consisting of 4pp, 12mo, stapled into card wraps with title and date beneath the Borough crest. Presumably produced for distribution at the annual town fair. The text of each poem covers all four pages. The... |
£220.00 | ||
[British 1970s anti-fascism] Anti Nazi League, London; Institute for Race Relations, London; Socialist Workers League, London; Peter Hain, Paul Holborow, Ernie Roberts ONE: ‘The National Front and the Jews / A briefing document by the Anti Nazi League / March 1978’. Stapled pamphlet of 8pp, 8vo. In fair condition, lightly aged and creased. Striking cover with title in large letters printed in black onto strips of green. Two-page introduction followed by two... |
£220.00 |