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House of Commons Select Committee report on the nightly watch and police of the metropolis [London policing], 1812 Folio, 41 pp. Text clear and complete. Disbound. Repaginated in a contemporary hand 95 to 135. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. The report covers the first eight pages, the remainder carries nine appendices, including 'No 6. - Division of Districts by Police Officers' and 'No 7. - Details of a... |
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House of Commons Select Committee report into Metropolis Police Offices [London policing], 1838 Folio, 40 + 224 + 38 pp [i.e. a total of 302 pp]. Disbound; repaginated in a contemporary hand 321 to 622. The central 224 pp are taken up with the minutes, which include the evidence of Sir Peter Laurie, twice Lord Mayor of London, and parodied by Dickens in 'The Chimes' as 'Alderman Cute'.... |
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House of Commons Select Committee Report on Metropolitan Police, 1833 [Printed House of Commons report, 1833.] Report from the Select Committee on Metropolitan Police. Folio, 6 pp. Text clear and complete. Disbound, and repaginated in a contemporary hand 401 to 405. Fair, on aged paper, with slight wear to extremities. The Committee 'consider themselves called upon to close their proceedings for the present Session: they regret that they cannot submit to the... |
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Captain F. W. Cragg [Francis William Cragg (1882-1924)], M.B., I.M.S. 4to, [ii] + 3 + 56 pp + 4 plates, each with facing page of explanatory text. In original printed boards. Complete and clear. Bookplate of the Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow, and light stamp of same on front board. Good, on lightly-aged paper, in worn and spotted boards... |
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William Blades, Bibliographer and Printer [Ashburnham; William Caxton] Two pages, 12mo, chipped and with small closed tears, with loss of half a line of text and some letters, bottom edge turned up. I beg to offer you according to your reque[st] a list of books printed by Caxton, in the library at Ashburnham House with their imperfections and sizes. | I have taken... |
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Anon. Full Title: His Majesties fuller condescentions to all the propositions sent by a message to the Parliament by Sir Peter Killegrey on Tuesday last, and his gracious message and protestation : with a list of the names of the new honours of Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, and Lords conferred by the... |
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[Garden City movement] 3pp., folio, with enclosed printed letter from William Yule, Interim Secretary, one page, fol., and blank forms for prospective shareholders and stockholders, one page, fol. Top edge dusted and chipped, small closed tears on right edge, punch-holes (extracted from file of Easton Gibb material on... |
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William E. Appleby [ZETA nuclear fusion device; Harwell; U.K. Atomic Energy Authority; Museum of Model Engineering & Science, Westcliffe-on-Sea] The collection is laid down on the rectos of 43 leaves of a 4to folder, on pages printed with borders and headed with the name of the Museum. Items in good condition, with the usual aging to newspaper cuttings, in worn folder. Folder in original buff wraps with, printed on front wrap, 'Compiled... |
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Lancelot Speed (1860 – 1931), Victorian illustrator of books, usually of a fantastical or romantic nature Signature (and subscription) only from letter, signed Lancelot Speed, book illustrator. Part of letter, 11 x 5cm, good condition, saying, yours try | Lancelot Speed. |
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Oliver Lodge, spiritualist and author 6.5 x 2.5cm, staining from having been laid down in an album (residual glue), but signature clear. |
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