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Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, (1834 - 1925), British author and critic, painter and sculptor.

Autograph Letter Signed "Percy Fitzgerald", author and critic, to [prob. A. Williams, "Liverpool Mercury"].

Two pages, 12mo, good condition, saying, "I was much obliged by your kind thought of sending me the critique - as well as taking the trouble - always a task - of copying it outIt seems to me to convey the intention of the [author?] exactly."

£35.00
Peter Haddon (1898-1962), English actor, whose career began in 1924 and ended in 1952

Signed Autograph Inscription by the English cinema actor Peter Haddon.

On leaf removed from autograph album, with one set of rounded corners. In good condition. Reads ' Good Morning - Bill! | With every good wish | Yours Sincerely | Peter Haddon | 1928 -'. Together with a loose newspaper cutting carrying a photographic portrait.

£12.00
'A Bird at Bromsgrove' [pseudonym of John Crane of Bromsgrove] [Grafton & Reddell, printers, Birmingham]

[Printed pamphlet.] An Address to Bachelors. By a Bird at Bromsgrove.

36pp., 18mo. With frontispiece (preceding half-title) of 'I. CRANE / BROMSGROVE', showing a crane and a carriage lamp, within a circular border reading 'To make the Watch go faster turn the Regulator to the right & Slower the Contrary'. Side stitched in original pink printed wraps. In fair...

Social history £120.00  An Address to Bachelors. By a Bird at Bromsgrove.
Robert Bowyer (1758–4 June 1834), British miniature painter and publisher.

Printed Circular Letter including signature "Robt Bowyer", miniature painter and publisher, addressed to "John Temple Esq | Brompton Grove", describing his "new undertaking of producing Facsimiles of ... the choicest Water Colour drawings"

One page, part of bifolium, 4to, faintly grubby and foxed, mainly good condition. "The high encomiums which have been publicly bestowed upon the successful accomplishment of my new untertaking, of producing Facsimiles [underlined] of a selection of the choicest water Colour drawings of the...

£125.00
Robert Easton (1898-1987), British bass

Autograph Signature of the British bass Robert Easton, who took part in the first BBC television broadcast.

On piece of light-blue paper, removed from an autograph album. Firm signature. In good condition. Reads 'Robert Easton.'

£10.00
Georgian Northumberland: Justices of the Peace, 1820 and 1830; Grand Juries, 1834 and 1836 [R. Walker, Printer, Newcastle.]

[Georgian Northumberland: legal documents.] Two printed lists of justices of the peace, in extracts from the Commission of the Peace for Northurmberland, one of them amended in manuscript; and two lists of grand juries, magistrates and counsel.

ONE: Printed document in the person of King George IV, containing a list of several hundred men appointed as justices of the peace, with extensive manuscript emendations and deletions in red and black ink. (A few names are added, but mostly the names of the dead are struck out.) Dated 16...

£250.00
Shura Cherkassky [Alexander Isaakovich Cherkassky] (1909-1995), Russian classical pianist

Autograph Signature of the Russian classical pianist Shura Cherkassky.

On rectangle removed from autograph album. In good condition. Reads 'Shura Cherkassky | 1929'.

£18.00
George Keate, artist, poet, correspondent of Voltaire (DNB)

[Printed} Broadside containing verses To Dr. Carmichael-Smyth, medical practitioner & scientist (see DNB, and quotation below)

Broadsheet, one page, 44 x 21.5cm, fold marks, two small closed tears, staining at top not affecting text, mainly good condition. The item has introductory remarks on the verses, presumably manuscript, being sent by Keate with a gift, reminding readers of Keate's work on the Pellew Islands and...

£220.00
Alfred Bunn (1796-1860), theatre manager, lessee of Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres [Anne Mathews [nee Jackson] (d.1869), second wife of the actor Charles Mathews (1776-1835)]

Autograph Letter Signed ('A Bunn') from the theatre manager Alfred Bunn to the widow of the actor Charles Mathews, praising her husband while defending an accusation of inconsistency on his part. With two notes by Mrs Mathews.

3pp., 12mo. Fair, on aged paper. Mathews begins by quoting contradictory passages from letters of Charles Mathews, one from Mrs Mathews' 'Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian' (1839) and the other from Bunn's 'The Stage: Both before and behind the Curtain' (1840). Regarding a performance in...

Music and Theatre £150.00
William Hazlitt , Jr (1811-1893), English author and translator.

Autograph Note Signed "Willm Hazlitt", author-son of critic, William Hazlitt, to unknown correspondent.

One page, 12mo, good condition. From a batch of letters, many of which are addressed to A. Williams of the "Liverpool Mercury", but no certain identification. Hazlitt says, "I send you sundry autographs, genuine as imported. I will not forget your wishes in this respect when other notable...

£45.00