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Charles Warner, actor (DNB) Autograph Letter Signed to "Miss [Marie] Tempest", actress. Two pages, 8vo, minor defects, mainly good. He apologises for not using (or knowing) her full married name and tries to persuade her to give a part to his son whose career he summarises (Athos in "The Three Musketeers", juvenile lead in the "Absent-Minded Beggar"). In a postscript he suggests he... |
£23.00 | |
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Frank Clowes (1848-1923), Principal, University College Nottingham, and Professor of Chemistry and Metallurgy Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Henry Trueman Wood, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. One page, 12mo. Good. Docketed and bearing the Society's stamp. Concerns 'Sir Alexander Redler's being brought up by Crookes for election to the Athenaeum by the Committee under Rule II [...] you [...] intimated that you knew Redler & that I need not descant on his virtues: he is a most... |
£23.00 | |
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Walter W. Robinson, English composer; Theodore Distin (1823-93), English singer; F. C. Wood, 'Lithographical Music Copyist'; the Original Lilian Minstrels; Grafton Hall The collection is in good condition, with each letter entirely legible. Two items particularly aged, and one with a couple of closed tears unobtrusively repaired with archival tape. Each item bears evidence of the fact that the collection was previously held together with a pin. An interesting... |
£280.00 | |
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S.C. Cockerell, museum director and bibliophile (DNB) Six pages, 8vo, water-stained but texts clear and complete. Much of the letters are concerned with elements of his executorship of the will of William Morris - (and trusteeship). In the letter to May he begins by expressing relief that "the Horace [book or manusript] was safe", then discussing a... |
£400.00 | |
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Timothy Tyrrell, Remembrancer of the City of London. Autograph Letter Sign "T. Tyrrell" to the "Worshipful Committee for Improving the Port of London". Two pages, 4to, dusted and otherwise marked, but text clear and complete. He "begs leave to represent the the State of my account of Fees & Disbursements in obtaining the Act of Parliament 'for rendering more commodious & for better regulating the port of London' which ammounts to... |
£65.00 | |
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A. Penniall and others. The Croydon Advertiser: Guardbook of some illustrations. Album, half-leather, worn, folio. The Guardbook of black and white illustrations from the Croydon Advertiser, c. 50 items, most c. 8 x 10", some folding, mainly Croydon subjects and neighbourhood, clear images in good condition, some by A. Penniall. |
£250.00 | |
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Anon. [ A Manuscript Valuation of Ecclesiastical Preferments and Royal Patronages in England and Wales] Manuscript, 221pp., 4to, recased, qtr lea. worn, marbled boards. The Index in the front lists the preferments in the bestowal of twenty-six Bishops from Canterbury to Durham (pp. 1-123), the Dean of Lincolnshire, the Duke of Devonshire, Earl of Burlington, the Duke of Rutland (pp.124-129), Royal... |
£750.00 | |
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Rouland, Ministre Secretaire . . . [and] Nigon de Berty, [Pour] Le Conseiller d'EtatDirecteur general de l'Administration des Cultes Document Signed by Rouland and de Berty, Administration des Cultes. Decret. Part printed, a decree in the name of Napoleon, one page, folio, slightly chipped, faintly foxed but clear and complete, decree in manuscript as follows: La nomination faite par L'Archeveque de Paris de l'abbe [Bour?](Michel), aumonier de Ste Perine a Chaillot, au canonicat vacant dans son... |
£56.00 | |
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The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London. A List of the Wardens Assistants and Livery of The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London. 12mo. In original worn red morocco binding, gilt, with loose front free endpaper. Good, with EXTENSIVE MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. Eight blank leaves bound in front and back, on which are laid down forty-nine illustrations of arms of London livery companies, each approximately one and... |
£180.00 | |
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C.B. Cochran Typed notes signed (x 6) to Thomas Bass, English impressario (1872-1951), nicknamed "Cocky", closely associated with Noel Coward, knighted in 1948. All one page, five with the letterhead Charles B. Cochran, 49 Old Bond Street (three 8vo and two 4to), and one, 12mo, with the letterhead of the Midland Hotel, Manchester. One in stamped... |
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