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Anon. [Printed Verse] The Welcome to Ilkley One page, 12mo,green paper, bifiolium (rest blank), 3 verses, 14 lines each (total 42 lines), preceded by the statement "Written for the Charity Bazaar") and 6 line quotation from Cowper ("Here stay thy foot; - how copious and how clear ... from an Eternal source"). Verses start "Welcome to... |
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George Bentley, Publisher, Richard Bentley and Son. Autograph Note Signed "George Bentley", publisher, to George Cruikshank, caricaturist. One page, 12mo, some marking but mainly good, clear and complete. "Dear Sir, | Please deliver to the bearer the design for The Merchant of Venice | Yours truly | George Bentley | George Cruikshank Esq,". There are pencilled notes and figures on the verso, probably in Cruikshank's hand (figures... |
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Mrs Patrick Campbell, actress Two pages, 8vo, edges sunned mainly good condition. She says, "My fee for reading is highg, 50 guineas for an evening. 40 guineas if [?] for 3 or more evenings. | I don't really care about if it interferes with other work & I have not yet settled my autumn plans". |
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[Purser's diary, Royal Navy Armoured Cruiser HMS Cornwall and SS Balmoral Castle; Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn; opening of first Parliament of the Union of South Africa, 1910; golf] 99pp., in 'Army & Navy Octavo Scribbling Diary (with a week on an opening) for 1910'. Good, on aged paper, in worn boards, with some preliminary leaves torn out, and a few childish scrawls by Irene and Pauline Knott (grandchildren of the author?) at beginning and end (not affecting text) .... |
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[Lucien Achille Mauzan (1883-1952), French Art Deco poster designer and decorative illustrator] 8pp., 4to. In stiff printed wraps. Printed in black and white. Photographic portrait of the artist tipped-in as frontispiece, twenty illustrations in text, and loosely inserted in a wallet at the rear a facsimile (2pp., 8vo) of an article from the Argentine Magazine, Christmas 1929: 'How MAUZAN... |
£135.00 |
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'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... |
£120.00 |
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George Cruikshank (1792-1878), English caricaturist and illustrator In ink on both sides of a 4to leaf of wove paper, watermarked 'J GREEN & SON / 1824'. None of Cruikshank's drawing or writing is affected, but one corner of the leaf has been cut away, and there is another thin strip cut from another. Fair, on aged paper. One page carries a full-length... |
£450.00 |
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‘An Irish Democrat’ [Henry L. Glasgow of Cookstown] [Untitled mimeographed report]. Untitled mimeographed report (place and date not stated [1916]). Document, 7 pp, fol., good condition. ‘The Irish constitutional problem is centuries old, but its terms are ever changing. The present factors in the problem may be set out as follows: –’. Dated from references to ‘An Act [...] to... |
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Anon. [Printed broadside] Jackets Green Song Book. Jackets Green Song Book. Skibbereen | The Old Plaid Shawl | The Jackets Green | [...] | Bold Robert Emmett (publisher and date not stated). Sheet, 8pp, fol., full sheet folded twice.A different edition, with the same title, was published in 12mo as No. 26 in ‘McGlennon’s Song Book Series’ (... |
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Anon. [Printed] Can Ireland Stand Alone? Is She strong enough to set up as an independent nation? Handbill, 2pp, 12mo, with wear to extremities, mainly good. A clue to the date of publication is the giving of Ireland’s trade figures for 1914. It concludes, ‘Is not Ireland fooled and robbed long enough? The Hour for Freedom and the Irish Republic has struck!’ Headed with wholesale price in... |
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