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Letter: 1p., 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged and creased. Attached by the blank second leaf of the bifolium to the reverse of the front free endpaper of the book. Envelope addressed by Tyrwhitt to 'Miss Bosworth | Parks Town' tipped-in beside the letter. He is not sure whether she has a copy of 'my art-book', which she mentioned 'the other day'. 'If not, will you kindly accept of this one, tho I fear it is not a very good one in the illustrations?' Book: [xv] + 480pp., 8vo. Sixteen-page November 1868 publisher's catalogue at rear.

Bifolium (21.5 x 14.5 cm): 4 pp. Good, on lightly-aged good-quality laid paper. Lightly folded. First page headed with a 5 cm square illustration of the front of Essex House. Begins: 'The Guild of Handicraft announce the forthcoming issue of the sixth book from the Essex House Press: | The Poems of Shakespeare and lyrics from his plays, in the orthography of the earliest editions. Edited by F. S. Ellis, with a frontispiece by Reginald Savage, and a new alphabet of bloomers designed by C. R. Ashbee.' Physical description and price follow.

77pp., 8vo. Tastefully printed. In red cloth binding with title in gilt on cover. In fair condition, with light signs of age and wear. Inscription at head of title-page: 'Augusta Maclagan | from the Author | Enfield | Nov. 18. 1882.' Uncommon.

Printed in blue on one side of a piece of white paper roughly 60 x 40 cm. Good: lightly-aged and creased. The text is enclosed within an ornate decorative border, and is headed 'Charles Ingle Robinson Esqr., | B. Sc. (Lond.), Associate R. S. M., | M. I. C. E., M. I. M. M., | Senior Inspector of Mines, F. M. S.' This is followed by nineteen lines, expressing 'deep regret and genuine sorrow' at his 'departure for Europe on retirement'.

All three items lightly aged but good. Driberg has written 'TOM DRIBERG' at the head of the first page of both reviews. First Review (8vo, 7 pp) with slight wear at head (not affecting text) of first four leaves; last three leaves on House of Commons letterheads. With corrections. The subject is Daphne Fielding's 'The Rainbow Picnic' (1974). Second Review (8vo, 7 pp, on House of Commons letterheads) of four books about crossword puzzles, including Roger Millington's 'The Strange World of the Crossword' (1974). With corrections.

Jardine, dubbed by the press 'the Poor Man's Pastor', travelled to France to perform the ceremony. As a result, his vestry committee resigned and he resigned his living, emigrating to the United States. The cuttings are laid down on 19pp of a Victorian folio volume, in superior brown calf binding, tooled in gilt, with marbled endpapers, and 'HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS' stamped on the spine. As the title on the spine indicates, the volume contains the manuscript of a harmony of the gospels, covering 127pp, with the text written around columns of printed text cut from a printed bible.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. One page extracted from an autograph album, hence one rough edge, 14 x 11cms, good condition. The Keyes is on the verso. On the recto is the signature of bandleader Charles Shadwell, his signature preceded by Sincerely Yours Images on request.

One page, 12mo, vestiges of tipping on on verso,text, aging but good clear condition. Lord Canning presents his compliments to Mr. Perry & begs to inform Mr. P. that he will be at the House of Lords at 2 o'clock tomorrow to officiate in the place of Lord Jersey.

Wraps, aged, 76pp., 4to.[Titlepage] Catalogue of the Major Portion of The Birkenhead Library | Fine Examples of the Bibliopegistic Art of eminent 18th Century and modern and English craftsmen[...]. Sale includes Madame de Pompadour's copy of Homer inscribed by William Morris to Burne-Jones. Copies held by the Grolier Club and Univ. of Indiana (WorldCat) and the National Trust (COPAC).

Honour Certificate, folio, 39 x 28cms, fold marks, small closed tear on fold, minor foxing, small closed tears right edge, aging, somewhat fragile and best kept in plastic, (explaining why survival low), clear and complete. Marginal damage to the signature of M.R. James [Montague Rhodes James, ghost story writer in his role as Vice-Chancellor of the University. SEE IMAGE. The certificate lists the SEVEN subjects she satisfied the Examiners in from English to Geometry, with distinctions in French and German.

One page, (trimmed), 18 x 11.5cm, spots of staining from tipping on points on the verso, minor repair of crack in paper text clear and complete. See Image. Note: Owen Jones would have been 31 ish, so this is early in his career.

Two pages, 8vo, bifolium, second leaf tipped onto larger piece of paper, very good condition. Text: She thanks her for a cake and for Christmas greetings but explains a delay by referring to her tiredness, presumably because of Parliamentary duties, having been elected in 1929]. I was getting so tired that it was as much as I could do to carry on my work till end of session - now since the House rose on Friday aft[ernoon] I am not doing a blessed thing for 10 days - just being as lazy as I know how to be.

Four items, part manuscript, glued together at top corner, as follows: a. Signed Statement by Hampton & Larzelere, Custom House Brokers, 402 Library Street,Philadelphia, verifying the Invoice, one page, 8vo; b. Invoice, detailed and heavy with official stamps and signatures (all parties). one page 4to. See Image; c. Oath and Declaration by the owner and Manufacturer, and by Joshua Nunn, Deoutyt-Consul-General of the United States of America, for Great Britain and Ireland at London, one page, 4to (with embossed USA stamp); One minor contents page, 4to.

One page, 12mo, text clear but minoir staining and small holes were a pin had been employed. Text: Thanks for his congratulations. I am sorry that you did not get back for the Election: nearly everybody seems to have got in. | By all means, ring up my Secretary and let us fix a day for lunch: it will have to be after Parliament rises since life is so hectic at the moment. Are you going to be in town in September.

Address panel, 11 x 7cm, faded but most still legible, staining (effect of glue?), laid down on sl. larger paper with attribution to Hussey. [Address etc] Hussey Vivian [underlined] See Image

Photograph, 24 x 18cm, verso sl. spotted, photo good and clear. See Image. On verson stamped Fotodienst de Arbeiderspers Amsterdam, with pencil notes Inaugural Meeting [?] 18April 1946 and my note about the Foudation in 1945.

One page, 12mo, good condition. Mr Este presents his best compliments to Mr Pettigrew, has just received his kind invitation, and is extremely sorry he cannot have the pleasure of attending his conversazione on Wednesday evening - in consequence of a previous engagement. See ImageNote: Biography in Plarr?s Lives of the Fellows (Royal College of Surgeons):He then came under the notice of Nelson, to whom he acted as a private secretary.

Two pages, 8vo, blue paper, closed tear not affecting texyt, a bit rumpled but text clear and complete as follows: Leslie [Caron, first wife] & I are delighted to hear that you're getting married. I'm a firm believer in a bourgeois base for artists! | Shan't see your student I'm afraid till I return from my three month rest. We leave on Tuesday. But I'm sure John [Barton, co-director] will take good care of him. | I hope you enjoy the Histories. They've been misery to do, but I think are my most important work to date.

Both letters one page, 4to, good condition. A. 13 August 1952, text: I have recently hired for the summer session several new computers, who will probably continue through the first semester as well. It is doubtful that I will have sufficient funds to add another before the second semester, and quite possibly not even then. Other members of the Department might possibly need assistance after they return for the fall semester, but I am only guessing at this.

Paper, 12 x 7cm, remnants on verso indicating tipped on another surface previously. Text: 'God bless the brick house that was; God bless the brick house that is to be! | Kate Douglas Wiggin | From Rebecca'. See Scan.

Black & White photograph, 11.5 x 9cms, good condition. Opportunist photo, taken without their knowledge. Location unknown. See Image

Four pages (of unknown original number), folio, bifolium (reinforced), fold marks, staining,aging, text clear but INCOMPLETE. He initially refers to the Lectures on Extinct Animals of Mr Waterhouse Dawkins [see note C below], then engages in a brief history of man's interest in Natural History going back to biblical times (Job, Solomon, then Ray in 1690) concluding The more minutely we examine the objects by which we are surrounded and the locality we inhabit - the more will our attention be repaid by the discovery of some new and surprising variety of existence [anticipation of Darwin?].

One page, 27 x 16cm, some damage to edge but no loss of text. Signed by Willott and another (Armstrong? - see Image).

About his Lecture On Some Instances of the Power of God manifested in his Animal Creation which was perhaps a side-swipe at Darwin?. Two pages, 12mo, some staining and edged with sellotape, but text is a scrawl and occasionally hard to interpret, including the loss of a couple of words under a stain. Full text as follows: By the post I forward to your Lordship a Copy of the Lecture [and scratched out] as printed by the Committee of the Y.M.

James Samuel Walter de Soysa (b.1880) was one of the children of the vastly wealthy Ceylonese tea planter and philanthropist Charles Henry de Soysa (1836-1890) of Moratuwa and Alfred House, Colombo. An Anglican, he was educated at Cambridge, and was a bencher of the Inner Temple. In 1904 he married Maria Micada Piedra Albo, of a distinguished Spanish family. They lived in London in Kensington, and in Ceylon, where he had his own plantations.

See his entry, and that of the Vining family, in the Oxford DNB, as well as well as his sister Emma?s memoir. 3pp, 12mo, with the last page written lengthwise. Bifolium. Text clear and entire, but in fair condition only, on aged and worn paper, with strip of tape from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf, and short closed tears at foot of both leaves and tape repair. Folded once. Written in feverish style: one word is underlined seven times. Addressed to ?My dear Vining? and signed ?Watts Phillips?.

Jerrold, Manby and Rennie all have entries in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On bifolium of grey paper. In good condition, lightly aged, with trace of tape from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Folded twice. Jerrold has tipped in a newspaper cutting of a letter by him to the editor of the Daily News at the head of the first page, proposing ?A STATUE TO SIR JOHN RENNIE?.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient A. M. Broadley was widely-regarded as an expert on the middle east. The year before the present letter, he had represented Ahmed Urabi after an uprising in Egypt, earning himself 10,000 guineas and the nickname ?Broadley Pasha?. At the time of writing he was acting as English agent and legal adviser of the ex-Khedive Ismail, who had been deposed in 1879 and was living near Naples (although at the time of writing he was clearly in London). 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with strip of tape from mount adhering to second leaf.

Despite a recent book by Miles Macnair supporting Serre's claims, the case for her imposture is overwhelming, as her entry in the Oxford DNB demonstrates. See also the various reports of the matter (for example Ryves v. Duke of Wellington, Law Times, 31 October 1846). 23pp., foolscap 8vo. On six loose bifoliums of laid paper with 1833 Britannia watermark of Gilling & Alllford. Good, on lightly aged and worn paper. Folded into the customary packet, and docketed on reverse of last leaf 'Copy Letter to the King from the Princess Olive'.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. On bifolium of grey paper. In good condition, with strip of paper from mount adhering to blank second leaf. Folded twice. Signed ?John Hullah? and addressed to ?W. Guernesy Esq?. He explains that he is leaving town the following morning, and gives a date on which he will call on him, unless he hears to the contrary.