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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Thomas Jefferson Hogg [Sotheby & Co.; Percy Bysshe Shelley; autograph letters; auction catalogue] Catalogue of the Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1792-1862), Consisting principally of Letters from Percy and Mary Shelley. Sold by Order of his Great-Nephew Major R. J. Jefferson Hogg, M.C. of Norton-on-Tees, Co. Durham. Octavo: 21 pp. Leaf of prices and buyers' names loosely inserted. Stapled. In original yellow printed wraps. Somewhat creased and chipped, on aged, spotted paper. Two-page foreword. Maggs were the main buyers, but the three highest sellers among the 105 lots, all Shelley letters, went to other...	Literature	£80.00
Thomas John Dibdin Literary Record and Bibliography [in manuscript] compiled by his great-nephew Edward Rimbault Dibdin The Dictionary of National Biography states that T. J. Dibdin (1771-1841, closely associated with Sadler's Wells, Drury Lane and the Surrey Theatre) wrote 'nearly two thousand songs and about two hundred operas and plays'. This list, which covers the whole of his life from his earliest known...	Music and Theatre	£450.00
Thomas John Dibdin, dramatist. Three Autograph Letters and Notes Signed "T Dibdin" (x 2) and "T D", to unnamed correspondents (x 2) and "J. Russell" Total 4pp., 8vo, two laid down on a page, with minor defects and texts complete, tending towards the illegible, the other with bottom of page torn off with some textual loss, again tending towards the illegible. In one he asks his correspondent to take up a bill (of exchange) that day "which I...	Music and Theatre	£100.00
Thomas Joseph Pettigrew Chronicles of the Tombs. A select collection of epitaphs 529pp., 8vo, inscription and small ownership label (title and ep), some staining of eps, some wear, mainly good-v.g.	History, Literature	£100.00
[First World War dramatic monologue; Royal Army Medical Corps, Delhi Barracks, Tidworth, Wiltshire] Anonymous manuscript First World War narrative poem titled 'The Message of the King', concerning a blinded soldier who asks a doctor to kill him. Four pages, 4to. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged ruled paper, with watermark 'D. K & Co. \| LONDON'. Sixty-four lines, arranged in eight eight-line stanzas. Apparently unpublished. Evocative of the sensibilities of a more naive age: sincerely meant, but coming across somewhat in the style of...	Literature, Military and Naval History	£80.00
Henrietta Maria Bowdler [Mrs. Harriet Bowdler] (1750-1830), author and literary editor, main 'Bowdleriser' of 'The Family Shakspeare' (1807) [Henrietta Maria Bowdler [Mrs. Harriet Bowdler], religious author and 'Bowdleriser' of Shakespeare.] Autograph Letter Signed ('H M Bowdler'), thanking 'Miss Walters' for her 'beautiful' works. 1p., 16mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, aged and worn, with slight damage to second leaf, which is addressed to 'Miss Walters' and carries a small seal in red wax. The letter reads: 'My dear Miss Walters \| I am so much obliged that I know not how to thank you as I wish. Your works are beautiful...		£150.00
Thomas Joseph Tenison [on his ancestor Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury] ARCHBISHOP TENISON'S BIBLE. [with] A Memoir of Archbishop Tenison, compiled from authentic sources. For Archbishop Tenison (1636-1715) see the DNB. Signed 'T. J. T.' [Tenison's descendant Thomas Joseph Tenison, J.P., Barrister-at-Law]. 2-leaf folio notice, on laid paper with Britannia watermark, dimensions approximately 13 inches by 8 inches. Recto of first leaf and verso of second leaf blank...		£100.00
Thomas Keble Autograph letter signed to unnamed correspondent Divine and writer, brother of John Keble (1793-1875). 2pp., 12mo. He thinks it would be as well to prefix a notice to "the Tract on Nupticions(?)", which will be removed when the volume is bound up. He has asked Dr Moberly (Bishop of Salisbury) to reply to a question about the number of copies...		£35.00
Thomas Kibble Hervey. Part of autograph note signed "T.K. Hervey" to an unknown correspondent. Poet and critic, author of the poem "Australia" (1824). One page, c. 6 x 5", probably trimmed at top (removing place, date, etc.), the rest black-edged, laid down on similar sized stiffer paper. Text clear as follows: "I have not, yet, received any communication from you on the subject of my...	Literature	£125.00
James Parsons (1799-1877) of York, Congregational minister, son of the preacher Edward Parsons (1762-1833) [‘The most remarkable pulpit orator of his time’: James Parsons of York, Congregational minister.] Autograph Letter Signed to Rev. J. Rawlinson, discussing his ‘intended retirement from my Pastorate in York’. See his entry in the Oxford DNB, which characterizes him as ‘the most remarkable pulpit orator of his time’, and that of his father. 3pp, 12mo. On bifolium. Somewhat aged and with the recto of the first leaf grubby, but with text clear and complete, with thirty-three lines of text in Parsons’...		£90.00