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Folkard & Son (G. E. Mann), jewellers, Oxford Street, London [trade cards] [Printed trade card for Folkard & Son (G. E. Mann), Jewellers, 355 Oxford Street, London, illustrated with 'The Connoisseur Chart of China Marks' and featuring a poem on 'Birth Stones'.] 12mo, 2 pp. Printed on thin card. Fair: aged and worn. The front of the card gives contact details, including phone number, for the firm, which is stated to have been 'Est[ablishe]d. in the Reign of King George III, 1814'. Its goods are listed as 'Jewellery, Gold and Silver Boxes, Diamonds,...	Social history	£28.00
[Printed handbill.] A few Tingling Rhymes On Much Wenlock Chimes. 1p., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged pink wove paper. Within fancy border. Beneath the title a four-line epigram by 'Cook', beginning 'The School-boy remembers his holiday ramble'. The poem proper, of twenty lines, is signed in type at the end 'J. H.' It begins: 'Oh! Wenlock Chimes, the dear old...		£120.00
Matthew Stevenson [Sheila Stratton, illustrator; Canterbury College of Art] [Pamphlet produced at the Canterbury College of Art.] The Measure of the Year. Being extracts from The Twelve Moneths by Matthew Stevenson with four decorations by Sheila Stratton. 12mo, 10 pp. Stitched. In original red wraps, with title and illustrations printed on the front in red. Good, on lightly-aged paper. An attractive pamphlet, with the illustrations accompanying sections entitled Summer and Winter. At end: 'The text was set in 12 pt. Bodoni by A. File and A....	Literature	£95.00
Rene Hummerstone [Canterbury College of Art] [Pamphlet printed at Canterbury College of Art.] The story of the children who live at Willow Green told and illustrated by Rene Hummerstone. 8vo, 17 pp. Stitched. In original grey wraps, printed in black red and dark and light green. Good, on lightly aged paper. A children's book, with attractive illustrations of children playing, either in red or green. Colophon reads: 'Compositors: D. Beech and J. Baker \| Pressmen: G. V. Jones and...	Literature	£75.00
[Sir Brooke Boothby (1744-1824)] [Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon (1748-1812), Scottish Tory political hostess] [Printed handbill.] Sonnet on the late Dutchess of Gordon. [By Sir Brooke Boothby.] Printed on one side of a 4to leaf, to which a black mourning border has been given by hand. Well printed on wove paper. Fair, on lightly-aged and ruckled paper. The author's name is not given, and the title reads 'SONNET \| ON THE LATE \| DUTCHESS [sic] OF GORDON.' The poem begins: 'IS then the...	Literature, Women	£280.00
Sir Thomas Barlow, (1845 -1945) Royal physician, known for his research on infantile scurvy. [Thomas Barlow, physican to Queen Victoria] Autograph Note Signed T. Barlow responding to a letter from Prof Thompson Two pages, 12mo, good condition, in his expansive hand. Text: Thank you very much indeed for your kind letter. It is a comfort that Busk's [see Note] devotion to our University has been recognised. Believe me with all good New Year's wishes to you & yours [subscription]. Image on request....		£35.00
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), Scottish poet [Rudolph Ackermann; Woodburn] Autograph Letter Signed ('Tho: Campbell'), in Italian, from the Scottish poet Thomas Campbell, to unnamed 'Carissimi Amici' [Dear Friends]. 4to, 1 p. Twenty-lines. Text clear and complete. He has found 'il Barone' and is going to see 'Der Freishutz'. Monico is 'una gran bella citta', where he has seen 'molte belle cose'. He finds the Madonna of Rafael 'Divina'. A postscript concerns the print-seller Ackermann, as well as the art...	Literature	£150.00
Captain Thomas Mayne Reid (1818-1883), Irish-American novelist Corrected Autograph Manuscript of part of Captain Thomas Mayne Reid's 1866 novel 'Afloat in the Forest'. 1 p, folio. On grey paper. Fair, on aged paper, with slight spotting and chipping to extremities affecting a few words of text. A whole page of the manuscript, numbered '9' and written entirely in Reid's hand, with a few minor emendations by him, from Chapter XXVI, 'Treed by an Alligator'....	Literature	£280.00
Richard Bentley [grandson of Richard Bentley, publisher] Death of the Broad Gauge [Letters to his father about the transition from broad to standard gauge] 18pp., 8vo, marbled boards, cloth spine, label on front, some pages damaged at spine (hinge strain), ow good. This copy if from the archives of Richard Bentley & Son, publishers, and this copy was personalized by rebinding to become Richard Bentley the Younger's own copy. A typed note has...	History, Science, Medicine and Technology, Social history	£250.00
William Henry Somerton of Queen-Street, St Michaels [Broadside] Lines printed in the Streets of Bristol, during the Procession in Honour of the Coronation of His Majesty King George IV. July 19, 1821, Broadside, trimmed to just outside decorative border for poem, with radiant crown at top, tipped on to detached album leaf, faint marking and creasing, mainly good condition, commencing, Who, that has lived beneath the Brunswick sway .... No copy listed on COPAC which lists a work by Somerton on...	Literature, Royalty	£250.00