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Author, Title, Summary Subject Price
[George] Vicat Cole, artist

Autograph Note Signed "Vicat Cole", painter, to "Mr [George] Gurney", artist.

Two pages, 12mo, bifolium, ford marks, good condition. "I have at last done what you wished to the picture & hope you will like it. I have directed it to be packed & sent to you at once, & shall be glad to have a line from you to say it is all right. [...]" Note: George Gurney's art...

£56.00
Samuel J. Davey [booksellers' catalogues; George Cattermole; Charles Dickens; William Cowper; Isaac Newton; Lord Nelson]

[No. 36.] Catalogue of Interesting, Choice and Rare Historical Documents and Autograph Letters, [...] And a Choice List of Modern Names [...] George Cattermole [...] Charles Dickens [...] William Cowper [...] Lord Nelson. [...]

Quarto: 50 + [2] pp. Fold-out frontispiece giving eighteen examples of handwriting from items in the catalogue. In original orange printed wraps. Good, though a tad dusty, and in worn and faded wraps with some glue staining to back and wear to spine. Well printed, with lengthy extracts from most...

Book Trade History £80.00
Samuel J. Davey, dealer, writer on autograph-collecting, and editor of "The Archivist [, and Autograph Review]".

Catalogue of Interesting, Choice and Rare Historical Documents and Autograph Letters

[58]pp., 4to, printed wraps, three errata slips (one ascribing errors - mainly omission of prices - to Davey's illness during the catalogue's preparation), some prices absent from printed text and errata leaves added in pencil, spine damaged, edges of covers dusted, corners bumped, slight hinge...

Book Trade History £80.00
Samuel Jones Loyd (DNB), 1st Baron Overstone, authority on banking and finance

ALS, 2pp, 16mo, to unnamed correspondent

Is "at present engaged in building a large School upon my property in Buckinghamshire and in providing Apprentices, Master & Mistress &c. I do this entirely at my own expense without seeking aid from the Government or from any of the Societies. This more than absorbs the sum which I...

£80.00
Samuel Jones Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone

Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Eastlake.

English banker and economist (1796-1883). The recipient (1809-93) was a writer, and wife of the President of the Royal Academy, Sir Charles Eastlake. Three pages, 12mo. Very good on lightly creased and slightly discoloured paper. Shaky hand. He thanks her for her life of Mrs Grote. 'I shall read...

£36.00
Macleod Yearsley [ Percival Macleod Yearsley ] (1867-1951), surgeon, author, folklorist and eugenicist [ The Thinker's Library, published by Watts & Co. for the Rationalist Press Association, London ]

[ Macleod Yearsley and the Thinker's Library. ] Copy of Yearsley's book 'The Folklore of Fairy-Tale' with extensive autograph emendations (two notes initialled 'M. Y.') and two proof specimens for intended republication in the Thinker's Library.

The item provides an interesting insight into the editing process of the Thinker's Library, 140 volumes of which Watts & Co. published for the Rationalist Association between 1929 and 1951. The book is xiii + 240pp., 8vo, in red cloth binding, gilt. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper,...

£380.00
The Essex House Press [C. R. Ashbee; The Guild of Handicraft]

[Essex House Press] Finely printed prospectus & order form for 'forthcoming issue of the sixth book from the Essex House Press' - F. S. Ellis's Shakespeare's poems, with R. Savage frontis. and 'new alphabet of bloomers designed by C. R. Ashbee'.

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...

£180.00
Samuel Lambert, S. L. & Co., varnish makers [Pratt & Lambert?]

autograph letter signed to James Hartford

Long and unusually entertaining account 'Re Varnish', addressed to an American correspondent. A fascinating insight into the nature of Victorian entrepreneurship. 'It has long been an idea of mine that of all the Trades the most profitable one is Varnish [...] the Germans, clever as they are,...

Art and Architecture, Social history £100.00
Samuel Laycock (1826-1893), Victorian Yorkshire dialect poet [nineteenth-century Blackpool]

Handbill street ballad entitled 'Mr. Sopkin's Misadventures at Blackpool. (After Ingoldsby's Misadventures at Margate.)'

At foot: 'PRICE ONE PENNY.' On one side of a piece of wove paper, roughly 220 x 170 mm. Enclosed within decorative border. Foxed and creased, with edges trimmed to edge of border. Thin strip of card mound adhering to one edge of reverse. Text clear and entire. Printed in two columns employing...

Literature £75.00
Samuel Lee

Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed correspondent, and a MS examination text

Orientalist and Cambridge Professor (1783-1852). Two pages, 4to, responding to a request for advice for the son of the correspondent who is engaged in preparing a Hebrew Lexicon. Lee gives some solid advice but finally points out that he is engaged on a similar task. WITH: the manuscript text...

Book Trade History, History £200.00