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BALDWIN, LUCY (1869 – 1945: wife of the Prime Minister).
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides small 8vo, to Lord Inchcape, written shortly after Stanley Baldwin’s appointment as Prime Minister, “I am so flattered at your writing to me that I must take your letter right out of its proper order & reply at once … …at the moment…astonishment is my paramount feeling! – No doubt that you will see me swelling with pride when I have grasped it all, but it has all come so suddenly & the task is so stupendous ………”
11 Downing Street, 18^th May, 1923.
File punched and a little marked. 
Quote Item No. 7266     
Price:  £15.00
 

BANKHEAD, TALLULAH (1902 – 1968:  American actress).
A fine signed coloured portrait photograph, head and shoulders, looking directly at the camera. 10 x 8 inches. Inscribed across the pale are of her neck, “To Renee Phillips sincerely Tallulah Bankhead”.
Traces of mounting to blank margins not affecting image. ca. 1940. 
Quote Item No. 7263
Price:   £125.00

 

BARRIE, SIR JAMES MATTHEW  (1860-1937;  playwright and novelist).
Autograph letter signed, 1-page 8vo with integral blank, to Miss Dora Tulloch, “I send you back your book signed and thank you very much for the photographs which are excellent.  I hope at some future time you will play for me again …”
With the original autograph envelope, this with forwarding address to Miss Tulloch at New Gerrards Theatre, Southampton.  
133, Gloucester Road, S.W.;  1 Dec. 1898. 
Quote Item No. 4814
Price:  £175.00

BARRIE, SIR JAMES MATTHEW  (1860-1937;  playwright and novelist).
Autograph letter signed, 1-page 8vo with integral blank, to Miss Dora Tulloch, “In answer to your letter I remember you well and look forward to have…you in a play the first time the opportunity offers”.
With the original autograph envelope.  
133 Gloucester Road, S.W.;  14 Dec. 1899.
Quote Item No. 4815
Price:  £175.00

BERESFORD, WILLIAM CARR, VISCOUNT  (1768-1854;  General,  Marshal of the Portuguese Army during the Peninsular War).
Commission document signed.  Printed document filled-in by hand, 1-page folio with integral blank, appointing Anthony Benn to be “One of the Company Gentleman Cadets in the Royal Regiment of Artillery under my Command”.  Signed by Beresford, Master General of His Majesty’s Ordnance;  with papered seal.
Small piece torn from upper left blank corner.
5^th February, 1828.  
Quote Item No.  4816
Price:  £50.00
 

BERLIN, IRVING (1888-1989:  songwriter). 
His signature with typed subscription. 
Quote Item No. 1465 
Price:  £50.00
 

BETJEMAN, SIR JOHN (1906-1984:  poet).  
Typed letter signed, 1-side oblong 8vo, to a Mr. Poulter, thanking him for his letter and enclosures and adding, “How good that you and I have similar memories of North London.” 
43 Cloth Fair, London, 3^rd January 1963.  
Central fold.     
Quote Item No. 7261       
Price:  £50.00
 

BOER WAR:  An original water-colour drawing of a 21^st Lancer, signed S. O’Beirne and dated 1899. The water-colour on card, 9 x 6¾ inches, some edge damage not affecting image.
Quote Item No. 6146
Price:  £125.00

 

BRIDGES, ROBERT (1844-1930:  Poet Laureate). 
Autograph letter signed, 2-pages 8vo with integral leaf to "My dear Cust" thanking him for "presenting my enquiries" and wondering "where things go.  It reminds me that when I lived in London I illuminated my dining-table with "Palace ends" they were very good wax candles which I could buy at a grocer"s shop in Oxford St. ! !  Do come here when you visit Oxford.  Perhaps then I shall be able to show you the alternative to the Royal Standard - for I think I have hit on one ....."  
Chilswell, Oxford, March 14, 1925. 
Quote Item No. 1497 
Price:  £95.00

BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-1889:  Radical statesman and orator). 
Autograph letter signed, 3-pages 8vo, to Robert Cust thanking him for complimentary remarks on his speeches and continuing, ".... I have always found members of the Civil Service very well disposed to the natives of India & speaking of them with kindness & sympathy - but all this is quite consistent with a resolution to maintain their own supremacy unimpaired & with opposition to any attempt to admit the natives to a position equal to that they themselves occupy ...." 
132 Piccadilly, Aug. 4 '83. 
Traces of glue to reverse of integral leaf. 
Quote Item No. 1509 
Price:  £45.00

BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-1889:  Radical statesman and orator).   
Autograph letter signed, 2-pages 8vo, to J.W. Clowes stating that he has not taken up his offer to fish as "The weather was too threatening .... I return your rod & reel with thanks ........... Mr Moss recommends me to try the little river beyond Cariloch for trout ..."  
Cariloch Hotel, Sept. 8 '76. 
Integral leaf removed. 
Quote Item No. 1525 
Price:  £21.00

BRISTOW, EDMUND  (1787 - 1876:  Painter).
Autograph letter signed.  1-page small 4to, stating that he was, "hindered by unforeseen difficulties in procuring models, the first I had was taken from me before I had derived much benefit from it and it was a great while before I could get another, with respect to the treatment of the subject I have taken you at your word and have us'd some licence and the picture may be something larger than you expected but my opinion is that a pheasant painted small will not have a good effect, therefore I painted him as large as life… … I have shown it to several as my custom is to hear their various opinions, amongst them  Mr. Edridge the artist … … he expressed himself pleased with it, I showed your letter to Blunt and Ronger [?].  With respect to your caution concerning their keeping company with that drunken fellow Mr. Bacchus it has had the desired effect I believe at least this I can say if they have been much in his company it was when they were out of my sight".
No place, Monday Feb. 13, 1815.
Laid-down, small piece torn from left margin affecting 6 letters, these supplied in facsimile on the backing card. Central fold. 
Quote Item No. 6588
Price:  £40.00
 

BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION - AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION COMMISSION VISITORS BOOK: The visitors book of the Australian Pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1924-1925.
This substantial volume has specially printed pages for the signatures of visitors (15-per page) and spaces for their Australian or English addresses.  Signatures include George V (twice); Queen Mary (thrice);  Edward, Prince of Wales (the future Duke of Windsor);  Prince Albert and Princess Elizabeth (the future George VI and Queen Elizabeth);  Princess Beatrice, and Prince Arthur.  Also Ramsay Macdonald, Stanley Baldwin (twice).  Also numerous notable Australians including Sir Hugh Robert Denison, Sir Harry Colebatch, Sir Thomas Henley, Sir Edward Lucas, Sir Francis Newdegate, T.L.F. Rutledge, Sir Frederick Young, E. Drake-Brockman, Sir Tom Bridges, also the Australian musician, John Amadio and Australian singer, Miss Florence Austral on the same page but not together (Florence Austral was cited by Amadio’s wife a year later as co-respondent in her divorce petition).  Together with numerous other, largely Australian, visitors, but also dignitaries from all parts of the world including H.H. Yang di-Pertuan Besar-Negri Sembilan of Malaysia. 
Upwards of 800 signatures;  some unidentified.
Large oblong folio, full morocco lettered in gilt “Australian Exhibition Commission Visitors Book”;  a few leaves coming loose.
Quote Item No. 8184
Price:  £1,500.00
 

BROCKLEHURST, LT.COL. HENRY COURTNEY  (1888-1942:  explorer and big game hunter, said to be the first person to shoot a Giant Panda;  Game Warden of the Sudan, published, “Game Animals of the Sudan, a Handbook for Hunters” in 1931; served during WWI as a pilot in the R.F.C. and during WWII with the 10^th Royal Hussars; killed on active service in Burma,  June 1942).
Typed letter signed, “Brock”, to “My dear General” [John Vaughan].  An exhaustive and interesting letter, approximately 2,000 words on 4-sides, 4to.   The first two sides relate to his Mission to Southern Abyssinia:  “I proposed to raise a force from the two to four million Gallas, who inhabit the country South of the Blue Nile….”  He continues by detailing the objections to the scheme by Haile Selassie, meetings with Smuts and Wavel and his raising of a battalion at Mogadischio, “out of outlaws and political prisoners…”  He has little respect for the South African officers: “ One Major killed nine Giraffe with a Bren gun, and they even went after the Oryx with armoured cars…”
After the fall of Addis Ababa a promised command in Iran fell through:  “so for a few days I joined the ranks of the unemployed.  General Wavell had gone to India so I had lost my best friend”.   On his arrival in Burma he is given command of “Special Service Detachment No.2” but writes to Wavell asking for a command in the Caucasus;  Wavell however advises him to stay,  “as he considered that there was a fifty fifty chance of the Japs coming in. Well he was right… I …proceeded to Rangoon to make final arrangements and arrived on the 23^rd December half an hour before the first air raid commenced.  The people were caught out in the streets and there were some 750 of them killed…….”   He finishes his letter by describing an accident that befell him whilst riding with the Mounted Infantry: “ it took me six and a half hours to limp ten miles as there as a mountain of 5036 feet to be negotiated.  Every step up was mild torture, and every step down acute torture….”
S.S.D.2 c/o No.2 F.P.O. Taunggyi, Burma, 15^th February 1942.  Roughly file punched with a little loss.  
Quote Item No. 8461
Price:  £65.00
 

BROOKE, SIR JAMES, RAJAH OF SARAWAK  (1803-1868).
Autograph letter signed, 2½ sides 12mo, to Mrs. Vaughan, “I must claim the privilege of an old acquaintance to reply in this manner to your invitation.  On Saturday I am expecting my sister here and will therefore avail myself of the option you give of dining with Dr. Vaughan and yourself on Monday next instead of tomorrow.  I heard from your brother yesterday and hope to see Mrs. Stanley when she returns to Town”.
The integral leaf slightly trimmed on fore-margin not affecting text; blank side of integral leaf laid-down on part of an album leaf.  The writer identified, “Rajah Brooke of Sarawak” in another, contemporary, hand at head of first leaf.  
No place;  no year. 
Quote Item No. 4821
Price:  £175.00

BROOKS, PHILLIPS  (1835-1893;  American Episcopal Bishop, consecrated Bishop of Massachusetts in 1891;  wrote "Oh little town of Bethlehem").
Autograph letter signed, 1¼-pages 8vo, to “My dear Archdeacon Farrar” [Frederick William Farrar, 1831-1903] asking a favour, “which I know you will not grant if I ought not to have asked It … … Four American friends whom I am Exceedingly anxious to oblige are very desirous of attending the afternoon service at the abbey today.  Last Sunday they failed because of the crowd.  Is there any way in which they can be admitted to seats? … …”
Usual fold marks;  mounted to part of an album leaf.
Westminster Palace Hotel;  Sunday morning, May 20^th. n.y.  
Quote Item No. 4822
Price:  £50.00
 

BURNE-JONES, SIR EDWARD (1833-1898:  painter). 
Autograph letter signed with initials, 2-pages small 8vo, to "My dear Miss Gladstone" declining an invitation and giving as explanation "... If I am at all possible on Tuesday I must go to hear some antique music that I much set my heart upon and love extremely - more than any music - and once about in two years I can hear it - some little of it - and thus next Tuesday is the appointed night - if I can go". 
Piece torn from left-hand margin just touching one word, integral leaf removed.  The artist's name inscribed in ink in another hand on lower blank margin. 
Quote Item No. 1527 
Price:  £175.00

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CANADA:  EDINBOROUGH, ARNOLD  (b. England 1922;  art critic, journalist & broadcaster, Editor of the Journal “Saturday Night”, formed the influential Council for Business and the Arts in Canada).
A very good series of 12 early autograph letters to his close friend, Douglas Eves;  29-pages 8vo and 60-pages 4to, 1947 – 1954.
In 1947 Edinborough left Cambridge to take up an appointment at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.  The first letter is written shortly before sailing: “… I now languish in the deep heart of the Lincolnshire harvest country-side with tonsillitis ravaging my throat … my wife (God bless her) struggling with all the final arrangements…”    
The following extracts from a 6-page letter written from Kingston, Ontario, on 20^th Feb. 1949 will give an idea of content although the bulk of the correspondence remains unread: 
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Quote Item No. 4824
Price:  £295.00
 

CHURCHILL, CLEMENTINE SPENCER (1885-1977).
Typed letter signed to [John J.] Haworth (of James Haworth & Brother Ltd. Printers). Thanking him for, “sending me the beautifully framed reproduction you have made from the oil painting by Terence Cuneo. I am so glad to have this picture.”
1-page 8vo;  central fold, pin prick to each corner.
7 Princes Gate, 19^th May 1970.
Quote Item No.  5931         
Price:  £60.00
 

CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON SPENCER  (1874 – 1965)  and   MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN, BERNARD LAW, VISCOUNT (1887-1976:  Field-Marshall). 
The printed programme for the El Alamein Anniversary, October 23^rd 1946 at the Royal Albert Hall, London.  Signed by both Churchill and Montgomery on the otherwise blank verso of the upper cover. 
The programme comprising a pictorial cover by John Dyke, Montgomery’s, “Eighth Army Personal Message from the Army Commander on the Eve of the Battle of Alamein”, a cartoon by “Jon”, the double-page central programme which included an address of welcome and speech by Montgomery and a speech by Churchill, 2-pages of the words of six songs for “Community Singing” including “Lili Marlene”, and a page of acknowledgements.  The lower cover of the programme printed in colour with 14 military insignia.
The programme 9¼ x 7¾ inches;  a trifle edge-worn but generally very good.
Quote Item No. 8501
Price:  £1,850.00

 

CLIPPER "WILD PIGEON": 
The manuscript journal of Crawford Williams on board the extreme clipper ship "Wild Pigeon", George W. Putnam Commander, on a voyage from San Francisco to Hong Kong, Whampoa, and Canton, in 1853 and part of the return voyage. 
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Quote Item No. 8189
Price:  £1,800.00

COBBETT, WILLIAM  (1762-1835;  Essayist, Politician, and Agriculturist).
Autograph free-front signed, addressed to Robert Macfarlane in Edinburgh.  Dated and postmarked 6^th July, 1834.
5 x 3½ inches;  laid-down on an album leaf. 

Quote Item No.  5933
Price:  £75.00

CORELLI, MARIE  (pseud. of Mary Mackay, 1855-1924;  novelist).
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides 8vo, to “Dear Sir” and marked “Private” thanking him for his, “…amiable and amusing allusion to myself in this morning’s ‘Daily Express’ in connection with W.L. Courtney’s ‘Feminine Note in Fiction’.  But please be quite assured that I take his omission of my name from his book, as one of the greatest and most signal honours that could possibly have befallen me…”
Laid-down on an album leaf, short marginal tear, fold marks.  Some browning to second side.  Written on her embossed notepaper.
Mason Croft, Stratford-on-Avon:  Nov. 1. 1904.
Quote Item No. 4827
Price:  £55.00

COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH  (1813-1866;  Bishop of Calcutta, founded schools for poor European and Eurasian children, drowned in the Ganges).
Autograph letter signed, “G.E.L .Calcutta”, 3-sides 8vo, blank side of integral leaf laid-down on part of an album leaf to, “My dear Mr. Smith” – “I am very much obliged to you for the Buchanan.  It is a most valuable book, for he was the real founder of the Church of England in India & a man for whom we may all be thankful……there is only one thing wanting to make the present perfect, that you should write my name in it… … You will think of us at 1.30 p.m. on Sept. 25 & I doubt not that you will pray that God’s blessing may be with us, to protect us on our journey & in our new mode of life & that the Spirit may fit & strengthen me for my work……”. 
3 Northwich Terrace, N.W.;  Sept. 16^th  [1858]     
*Cotton taught for 15 years at Rugby and was “the young master” of “Tom Brown’s School Days”.
Quote Item No. 4828
Price:  £25.00

CRABB, JAMES  (1774 - 1851: Wesleyan Methodist)
Autograph sentiment signed.  Commencing, "Fifty years this day I have been united to my dear wife in the bonds appointed by a wise and good God.  And, I may truly add, that I feel more love to her … … ….  May you and your dear wife live long together in happy union and then be translated to heaven". 
Dated Southampton 5th April 1848.
10-lines on a 4to album leaf, this damp-marked on lower blank margin. 
Crabb was a schoolmaster at Romsey, a preacher at Southampton, and  missionary to the New Forest gipsies.
Quote Item No. 6586
Price:   £20.00

CRIPPS, SIR STAFFORD (1889-1952:  Chancellor of the Exchequer). 
His signature;  closely trimmed. 
Quote Item No. 1463 
Price:  £10.00

CURTIS, SIR WILLIAM  (1752-1829;  Lord Mayor of London).
Autograph address panel signed, addressed to Admiral Wilson, Redgrave, Diss, Norfolk and dated London October Nineteen 1825.
Blank corners trimmed, attractively laid-down on a contemporary folio album leaf with an engraved coat of arms, a contemporary portrait of Curtis and a view of the Bank of England.  The writer identified in another, contemporary, hand on lower margin of panel.
Three other 1820’s address panels and an engraved view mounted to the reverse of the leaf.
Quote Item No. 4829
Price:  £25.00

CURZON, GEORGE NATHANIEL, MARQUESS CURZON OF KEDLESTON  (1859-1925;  Viceroy of India).
An original sepia-toned photograph of the young Curzon taken during his last year at Eton.  A group photograph of 33 pupils, Curzon seated centrally to the front.  In arch-topped mount, this with arms in colours and gilt to the head and calligraphically inscribed, "Rev. A. Wolley-Dod, 1877 House Group" within a banner.  Each of the subjects neatly identified in ink to base of mount.
The photograph 8 x 10½ inches excluding mount.  Framed in a contemporary oak frame with gilt slip and glazed.  With Hills & Saunders, Photographers, label to the reverse. 
Quote Item No. 3398                
Price:  £90.00

CUST, NINA:  Not All the Suns.  1917 Poems 1944.
London:  Nicholson & Watson, 1944.
First edition.  8vo, pp.51, original cloth;  binding faded, corners bumped.
*   With 6-line manuscript verse "An Epitaph" signed by Nina Cust, pasted to endpaper. 
Quote Item No. 2965  
Price:  £25.00

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DALMAHOY, ALEXANDER (1723-1781; chemist to Her Majesty).  
A printed advertisement for:   “The True Chymical Essential SALT of LEMMONS, Prepared and sold only by Dalmahoy, Chemist to her Majesty, Ludgate-Hill, London, at one shilling the box.  Incomparable for the following Purposes, viz. For making Punch, Negus and cool Tankards … … For making Saloops and Sagoes … … To make a very grateful Sauce for Puddings, Pies, and Jellies of all kinds… … For taking Iron-Moulds, Ink-Spots, Red Wine, or Stains of any kind out of Lace, Lawn, Muslin, Cambrick, or Linen of any Sort … … For taking Stains out of Marble and Ivory … … For cleaning the Hands, Fingers, and Nails, when stained with Walnut or any kind of Fruit, or other Dirt, or Filth … … For cleaning and whitening the Teeth, and preventing the Gums from growing putrid … … To make the Febrifuge Draughts … …
N.B. This curious Essential Salt has a peculiar advantage over every thing of its kind, for if kept dry, it preserves its acidity, therefore it is fit for immediate use in all climates.”
With full receipts/instructions for each of the above recommended uses.
Single sheet, folio (12 x 7 ½ inches), royal arms at head. With the same, in French, printed to the reverse.
Fold marks, trimmed and edge chipped but with no loss of text, loss to royal arms at head especially to the reverse, browned, especially to left-hand margin, 3-inch tear.
Mid 18th Century.
Quote Item No. 3875
Price:  £75.00

DALTON, ORMONDE MADDOCK  (1866 – 1945:  classical scholar and medieval archaeologist, Keeper British Museum).
Autograph letter signed to Sir Charles Hercules Read (1857 – 1929:  Keeper of the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities, British Museum).  Written upon the occasion of Read’s retirement, a long and effusive letter:  “When I think of the twenty six years I have passed under your official wing, I find it something of a miracle that there should never have been even the shadow of a disagreement.  For this I can take no credit………”
No place, July 30^th 1921.
6-sides 8vo, usual folds.  With the original envelope.  
Quote Item No. 5772
Price:  £20.00

DANIELS, BEBE (1901-1971) and LYON, BEN (1901 – 1972).
Two signed photographs of this film and radio duo, both 10 x 8 inches, the first a portrait of the pair looking lovingly into each others eyes, the second  posing with their children before the Houses of Parliament, this also signed by the children. Both inscribed to Renee Phillips. 
Quote Item No. 7262 
Price:  The pair,  £25.00
 

DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY  (1778-1829;  natural philosopher).  A printed card announcing, and giving details of, the two courses of lectures delivered by Davy to the Dublin Society, 5^th November to 3^rd December [1811]. 
The first course, a series of 12 lectures, on Electro-Chemical Philosophy; the second course, a series of 6 lectures, on Geology.  The card, printed to both sides, measures 7 ⅝ x 4 inches;  a trifle dusty but generally very good.  Together with an engraved portrait, also on card, 4½ x 3 inches, published by William Darton, 1823.
*  The proceeds of these lectures amounted to £1,101.  Before leaving Dublin Trinity College conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D.        
Quote Item No. 8200
Price:  £200.00

DE LABILLIERE, PAUL (1879-1946:  Dean of Westminster). 
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides oblong 8vo, to "My dear Douglas" [Smith] thanking him for his letter and continuing, "I am sure in days to come you will look back on this strange experience which has come to you with gratitude:  that is certainly my feeling about the last war.  I am glad that you miss the Abbey ...... we miss you and the other members of the Brotherhood [of St. Edward the Confessor] .... I hope you like Plymouth Sound.  It is one of the best approaches to England..." 
The Deanery, Westminster SW1, Nov. 30. 1942.
Central fold mark.  
Quote Item No. 2552 
Price:  £21.00
 

DE QUINCEY, THOMAS  (1785-1859; Author of “Confessions of an Opium Eater”).
Autograph manuscript of part of his “Autobiographic Sketches.  Selections Grave and Gay from Writings published and Unpublished”.
Written on both sides of a single leaf cut from the middle of a larger sheet, the text commences on one side,  “of the case, and would have been executed in a summary way, upon the prima facie evidence against him, that he did not appear to be in the condition of a prisoner; and, if his name had ever again reached his country, it would have been in some sad list of ruffians, murderers, traitors to their country…………” and finishes, “……roused from their slumbers by the glare of conflagration, reflected from gleaming cutlasses and from the faces of demons.  This fear it was--a fear like this, as I have often thought…”  
The second side commences, “I have said that he would not have appeared to any capturing ship as standing in the situation of prisoner amongst the pirates, nor was he such in the sense of being confined. He moved about, when on board ship, in freedom……………” and finishes, “… Much, therefore, it was that he owed to this accomplishment.  Still, there is no good thing without its alloy;  and this great blessing brought along with it something worse than a dull duty - the necessity, in fact, of facing fears and trials to which the sailor's heart is preeminently…”
Both the above forming part of Chapter XII, “My Brother” of “Autobiographic Sketches” first published in 1853.  Approximately 500 words with much crossing out, alterations and revisions.  
The leaf 4 x 7½ inches.
Quote Item No.  5936
Price:  £650.00
 

DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN  (1859 – 1930;  author).
Autograph letter signed, to an unidentified recipient, on the printed letter-heading of Lord’s Cricket Ground*:  “I rely upon you from Tuesday till Saturday of next week.  We begin at Hawick 11 o’clock on Tuesday.  Tower Hotel, Hawick, our first headquarters.  I shall be there on Monday night.  Please confirm this to Golden Cross Hotel London.” Signed in full “Arthur Conan Doyle”.
1-page, small 8vo, conjugate blank removed. n.d.  Corner crease, usual central fold mark.  Presumably written in 1906 when he stood, unsuccessfully, as the Unionist candidate for Hawick. 
*     “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, although never a famous cricketer, could hit hard and bowl slows with a puzzling flight.  For MCC v Cambridgeshire at Lord's, in 1899, he took seven wickets for 61 runs, and on the same ground two years later carried out his bat for 32 against Leicestershire.  It is said that Shacklock, the former Nottinghamshire player, inspired him with the Christian name of his famous character, Sherlock Holmes.”  (Wisden Cricketers' Almanack).
Quote Item No. 5328
Price:  £525.00

DREW, JOHN  (1809 - 1857:  Astronomer).
Autograph verse signed, addressed  (on the occasion of their marriage), "To Mr. And Mrs Sheppard".  12-lines on a 4to album leaf commencing, "Learn to expect, through life's wide lea, The shock of rude commotion; You'll not escape all cheerily, While sailing on its ocean… …."
Dated Southampton, Feb. 20th 1848.
Some marking a light marginal damp staining. 
Drew was schoolmaster at Southampton, and one of the founders of the Meteorological Society. 
Quote Item No. 6587
Price:    £20.00

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EGERTON, FRANCIS (1736-1803: 3rd and last Duke of Bridgwater "the founder of British inland navigation").  
Autograph letter, 1-page 4to folded, in the third person, "The Duke of Bridgwater"s Comp"ts. to The Duke of Newcastle and returns His Grace many thanks for His obliging Enquiries". 
"Tuesday morn"g"  n.d.   
Tear to one fold not affecting text.  Inscribed in pencil "1767-68".  
Quote Item No. 2088 
Price:  £35.00
 

EUSTON ROAD SCHOOL:  
Two leaves torn from the register of the “Euston Road School”, each rubber stamped at head, “School of Drawing & Painting”, one dated 31^st March 1939. They bear the 74 signatures of tutors and those attending various morning, afternoon, and evening classes and whether they had paid their fee, apparently 2/-.
Signatures include the artists William Coldstream (1908-1987), Claude Rogers (1907-1979; 3 signatures), Lawrence Gowing (1918-1991; 3 signatures), Victor Pasmore (1908-1998; 4 signatures), Angelica Bell (b. 1918),  Rodrigo Moynihan (1910-1990) & the poet Stephen Spender (1909-1995; 4 signatures).  
Two leaves folio, mounted one above the other by upper left corners to an album leaf, fold marks, ragged on margin where torn out.                          
* The “Euston Road School” had been founded in 1937 by Claude Rogers, William Coldstream, Victor Pasmore, and Graham Bell with the support of Vanessa and Duncan Bell who, along with Augustus John and John Nash, acted as visiting teachers.
Quote Item No. 4837
Price:  £225.00

EVANS, SIR E.R.G.R. (1880 - 1957:  Admiral, Second-in-Command Scott"s second expedition, accompanied Scott to within 150 miles of the pole [1912]). 
His signature on a slip of paper. 
Quote Item No. 1573 
Price:  £30.00

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FAIRHOLT, FREDERICK W.  (1814-1866;  Engraver and Antiquarian).
Autograph letter signed, 3-sides 8vo, to the painter, J. Noel Paton, “Mon Cher Vieux Garcon, In plain English, Dear old boy……here I am in this wicked Metropolitan City. My dark superstitions got the better of me;  I did not like to risk an unlucky day by traveling at night I hope that is quite clear, and not at all Irish.  So I did not stay at Newcastle and have been traveling since 8 a.m. ……I send you some game if you care for it and which Lord Londesborough made me pay………” etc.
Clarendon Hotel, Princess St. [Edinburgh], n.d. 
Quote Item No.  5937
Price:  £20.00
 

FAIRFAX FAMILY OF STEETON YORKSHIRE: 17th Century Manuscript Cookery Receipts. 
Manuscript book of culinary and medicinal receipts, in several hands, inscribed at front:  “Elizabeth Fairfax Her Booke 1694”.  

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Quote Item No. 8193
Price:  £1,480.00
 

FAITHFULL, EMILY (1835-1895:  philanthropist, promoter of remunerative employment for women, founder of the Victoria Press, printer and publisher in ordinary to Queen Victoria.) 
Autograph letter signed "Em. F." to her cousin, also Emily, 3-pages 8vo, "I will send the parcel to you at Norwood, but I shall detain it a little in order to send you 500 title pages with your first sentence to the Reader.  I think if you will send this widely it will be a good thing .... and if you will keep an acct. of stamps they may fairly be charged against the acct. of the Book. I am quite satisfied with the sale of it, it is going on very steadily at any rate ..... if we send the title page out we are sure of orders ........" 
83A Farringdon St. E.C.,  Feb. 12th '63. 
Miss Faithfull's name added in another hand in ink to first page. 
Quote Item No. 1565 
Price:  £225.00

FARADAY, MICHAEL  (1791-1867;  natural philosopher).
Autograph envelope signed with initials and addressed to C.R. Wild Esq. Royal Society, Somerset House.   Stamp cut away, postmark indistinct.  With his seal in black wax to the reverse;  some browning and spotting.    
Quote Item No. 7854
Price:  £35.00  
 

FIELDS, JAMES T. (1817-1881;  American Writer and Publisher).
Autograph note, “And you also, friend, whoever you may be”.
Signed and dated Boston, Dec. 5, 1864.  1-page 12mo. 
Quote Item No.  5938
Price:  £25.00
 

FFOULKES, CHARLES JOHN  (1868-1947:  first Curator of the Imperial War Museum, Master of the Armouries of the Tower of London).
Autograph letter signed to Sir Charles Hercules Read (1857 – 1929; Keeper of the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities, British Museum).  Written upon the occasion of Read’s retirement, thanking him for past help in antiquarian research and hoping that he will be, “spared for many years to help us in the many archaeological difficulties which arise, almost daily”.
Office of the Armouries, 29^th June, 1921.
1-page 4to.  In the original envelope;  usual fold marks.
Quote Item No. 6777
Price:  £20.00
 

FLEET STREET IN THE ‘50’s:  
An entertaining series of 47 letters from Gerald Pawle, a journalist with Kemsley Newspapers writing for the Sunday Times.  The letters to Lady Mary Pratt, commenced after their first meeting in 1952 and terminating shortly before their marriage in 1953. 
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Quote Item No. 8186
Price:  £125.00
 

THE MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF LUKE TRAPP FLOOD (b. 1809) for the period August 1853 – December 1864 in six volumes 8vo, on 800-pages, ca. 110,000 words.  Including two journals of tours in Scotland in 1859 and 1864.
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Quote Item No. 8212
Price:  £825.00
 

A TOUR IN FRANCE 1829: 
The manuscript journal of Luke Thomas Flood (1775-1860),  1^st August – 11^th November1829.
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Quote Item No. 8209
Price:  £275.00

 

TOUR THROUGH PART OF FRANCE and THE NETHERLANDS ca. 1825: 
The manuscript journal of Luke Thomas Flood (1775-1860) travelling with his son, also Luke (b. 1809) and two brothers by the name of Greenwood.
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Quote Item No. 8207
Price:  £250.00

FROUDE, J. A. (1818-1894:  Historian; author of "Oceana, or England and Her Colonies" 1886, etc.) 
Autograph letter signed, 2-pages 8vo, to Lady Lyttelton, "... I hope that I have arrived back all the better for my expedition "down under" as the gardener in the Square puts it to me with an exclamation of "Well Well" as if he hardly believes in the possibility!" 
5 Onslow Gardens, May 28th n.y. 
Integral leaf removed. 
Quote Item No. 1522
Price:  £55.00

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GARIBALDI, RICCIOTTI  (1847– 1924;  son of Giuseppe Garibaldi).
Letter signed, 1-page 8vo, to Graham Briggs in Rome, “My father desires me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter & to express his thankfulness for the …fruits which you have so kindly sent to him…”
Light fold marks and short edge tear.
Caprera, March 2, 1863.
Together with a letter from Thos. Pate & Co. of  Leghorn informing Graham Briggs that his instructions that, “a case of Preserves from London be forwarded to General Garibaldi” had been carried out and that they were enclosing the above letter of acknowledgment.
1-page 4to.  Leghorn 10^th March, 1863. With conjugate blank, address panel, and numerous postal markings.
Quote Item No. 5940
Price:  £35.00

GENNÉE, DAME ADELINE (1878 - 1970: ballet dancer). 
Autograph letter signed adding her married name "Isitt", 1½ sides 8vo, to Sir Ronald Storrs thanking him for his congratulations, ".... It would be ungracious of me to say I am sorry to be your superior, as you say in your letter, as I am naturally very happy His Majesty has conferred the Order of O.B.E. on  me ..... I am .... once more in my dear little Denmark ...." 
Hojbjerg, Jan. 1950.  
Folded, central rust marks.  
Quote Item No. 2118
Price:  £15.00

GEORGE II  (1683-1760;  King of England).
Manuscript document signed, twice.  One sheet folio (18 x 11¼ inches).  
The first side being a warrant:  “Whereby there has been annually deducted out of the payments made by Our Guards Garrisons & Land Forces in Great Britain, One day’s Pay Yearly for the Use of Our Royal Hospital near Chelsea. Our Will & Pleasure is That the same deduction of One day’s Pay be……directed……towards the better maintenance of such Superannuated and Disabled Officers & Soldiers as shall be provided for therein……… Given at Our Court at St. James’s this 22d day of April 1741…”  Signed at head.  Also signed by William Clayton, 1^st Baron Sundon (1671-1752; Commissioner of the Treasury) and two others.
The reverse, also signed at head, is the “Regulation of Subsistence to be paid to every Officer and Soldier on the foregoing Establishment” showing payments to be made to a Captain “in lieu of his Servants”, to Brigadiers, Surgeons, Trumpeters, Kettle Drummers, Private Gentlemen, Marshall to the Horse & Grenad’r Guards, etc.
Central horizontal fold, some foxing, generally good.                 
Quote Item No. 6151 
Price:  £375.00

GEORGE IV (1762 - 1830:  King of England).
Signature as Prince Regent  "George PR".  A good bold strong signature, signed "In the Name and on behalf of His Majesty".  Cut from a document, the piece measuring 9½ x 3½ inches overall.  Fold marks, text to the reverse. 
Quote Item No. 6309
Price:   £50.00

1890’s GERMAN ARTISTS:  A collection of 40 autograph letters signed and autograph correspondence cards signed, all addressed to H. Lewis in Dusseldorf who was apparently making arrangements for an exhibition at the Crystal Palace; all, apart from the last, in German. 1894-1899.
Together with 11 letters and 10 correspondence cards of which we have been unable to decipher the signatures.
Eberhard Stammel (1833-1906);  Auguste Splitgerber (1844-1918); Fritz Sonderland (1836-1896); Eduard Sporer (1841-1898); Carl Saltzman (1847-1923: 2 C.C.S & 3 A.L.S.): Emanuel Spitzer (1844-1919); Nathaniel Sichel (1843-1907); Theodore Schuz (1830-1900); Friedrich Schwinge (1852-1913); and Heinrich Schnabel, 3 A.L’s.S. in English discussing his British Columbian and Alaskan paintings “for the Exhibition of the Glasspalace London.”
Quote Item No. 3861
Price:  40 pieces in all - £200

GIBBON, MONK  (1896-1987:  poet). 
An Alphabet of Mortality.  
No publisher or date. 
Broadside, single folio sheet folded. No. 72 of only 80 copies printed.  Signed and inscribed by the poet on verso. 
Quote Item No. 197
Price:  £65.00

GIBBON, MONK  (1896-1987:  poet). 
This Insubstantial Pageant. 
London:  Phoenix House, 1951. 
First edition.  8vo, very good in d.w. 
Inscribed, "for Alister [Mathews] who walks across the pages with me for several hundred miles in "Estrangement" ... Monk 20/3/70". 
With typescript of "Estrangement" inserted together with the signed typescript of Mathews" reply to "Monk Gibbon who complains of the gulf in our friendship", 1932. 
Quote Item No. 200
Price:  £45.00

GIBBON, MONK  (1896-1987: poet). 
The Brahms Waltz. 
London:  Hutchinson, 1970. 
First edition. 8vo, original cloth, very good in d.w.
Inscribed by Gibbon, "for Alister Mathews my friend, fellow traveller and my first publisher. Aug. 10th, publication day, 1970".  
Quote Item No. 202
Price:  £30.00

GIBBON, MONK (1896-1987: poet). 
The Climate of Love. 
London:  Gollancz, 1961. 
First edition.  8vo, original cloth, very good in d.w.
Inscribed by the author, "To Alister [Mathews] who may not know it and when he makes it"s acquaintance may not approve it.  For Wrexham read Rye, and for Danish read German, and remember that this time I had only one journal to draw upon.  The year is 1951.  Monk, Christmas, 1966".  
Quote Item No. 204
Price:  £45.00

GIBBON, MONK  (1896-1987: poet). 
For Daws to Peck at. 
London:  Gollancz, 1929. 
First edition.  8vo, very good in d.w. 
Inscribed "To my friend Alister Mathews who likes poetry well enough to publish it and who was godparent to many of these poems when they first appeared at the font".  Signed "Monk" and dated Feb.25th 1929. 
Quote Item No. 198
Price:  £50.00

GIBBS, SIR PHILIP (1877-1962; writer).
Autograph letter signed, 2-sides 8vo, to ARTHUR PAUL BOISSIER (1882-1953; senior master Royal Naval College, Osborne 1905-1919; headmaster of Harrow School 1940-1942; & Director of Public Relations, Ministry of Fuel & Power, 1943-45):
“I am so glad that article of mine was the right kind of thing …… I am desperately finishing a novel and as soon as that deed is done I have to go to Geneva…… ”
Slight edge tears.
Overponds, Shackleford, Surrey, Aug. 11, n.y.
Quote Item No.3849
Price:  £25.00

GIELGUD, SIR JOHN (1907-2000:  actor).  
Signature and "best wishes 1943" on a slip of paper. 
Quote Item No. 1431 
Price:  £20.00

GINNER, [ISAAC] CHARLES (1878-1952:  artist; exhibited with Camden Town and London Groups, founder-member of the Cumberland Market Group). 
Autograph letter signed, 1-page 4to, Charles Ginner, to [Victor] Pasmore accepting Pasmore's explanation for missing a meeting and continuing, "... Anyhow the result of my expedition to the Euston Road ended in meeting a friend....I had not seen for some time so I finished up at the 'Horse Shoe' ........."    He finishes by making arrangement for a meeting and comments that Pasmore has "a very enchanting place for your school & so good luck to it".  
66 Claverton Street, Pimlico, 8th December 1938. 
Usual fold marks; tipped-onto an album leaf which has Henry Moore's signature,  cut from  a form, laid-down to reverse.  
Quote Item No. 2226 
Price:  £65.00  

GLADSTONE, CATHERINE  (1812-1900;  wife of William Ewart Gladstone).
Autograph letter signed to Sir Walter James:  “I cannot help at once writing to you & quoting my Husband’s words upon returning from London to say something of his new secretary! - ‘… I cannot express the delight I feel having been the means of bringing Godley’s father into public notice and that I should have the pleasure of thinking I have been able to do the same for his son is a real pleasure’- dear Sir Walter it is very delightful to me to write this to you, I may truly say that William is perfectly delighted with Arthur & we love to have the further connection with you & Sarah my dear God-child!  I look forward to finding them settled in Downing St. ………” 
4-sides, 8vo.  Hawarden Castle, Oct. 19^th, n.y.
Godley took up his appointment as Assistant Private Secretary in 1872.  Sir Walter James was his father-in-law.
Quote Item No. 8182
Price:  £55.00

GLADSTONE, W.E.  (1809-1898:  Prime Minister).
His signature on an envelope front addressed to H.U. Addington Esq. Foreign Office and marked, "To be Opened. Private".  A few short edge tears, central vertical fold; glue marks to reverse with some faint show through. 
Quote Item No. 6315
Price:  £20.00

GLADSTONE, W.E. (1809-1898:  Prime Minister). 
Autograph letter signed, 2-pages 8vo, to the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, "My dear Sybilla" informing her that the "Vicarage of St. Mary"s is today offered to Mr.Leigh, Vicar of Leamington ..... he will make I think no marked change or break in the traditions of the Parish...."
10 Downing Street, May 12. '83. 
Holed at head due to clumsy removal from an album. Usual folds, integral leaf removed.  With the original autograph envelope, signed. 
Quote Item No. 1511 
Price:  £80.00

GLOUCESTERSHIRE – SEVENTEENTH CENTURY SURVEY:  
Manuscript, “Survey of the Manor of Tytherington 1684”  by John Bromwich.
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Quote Item No. 8181
Price:  £1,200.00
 

GODLEY, [JOHN] ARTHUR, 1^ST BARON KILBRACKEN  (1847–1932;  Principal Private Secretary to Gladstone, Permanent-under-Secretary of State for India, 1883–1909).  
A charming, and often amusing, series of autograph letters to his daughter, Helen.
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Quote Item No. 8180
Price:  £600.00
 

GRAVES, ROBERT (1895 - 1985:  poet and novelist). 
Autograph letter signed, 1-page 4to, to Sir Ronald Storrs, "Very many thanks for your amendments to the Long Week End which I will paste inside my library copy.  One day there'll be a reprint:  this was only photographed from the 1940 edition.  The book has acquired a certain patina in these ten years and will be beautifully oxidized by the end of the next war they're talking about.  But it contains a lot of mis-statements I fear ....... For the last year or more I have been working eight hours a day on a scholarly, as opposed to a novelistic, study of the Gospels.  I have had to change my ground a good deal, but the findings are exciting; I have worked throughout in collaboration with a learned Talmudist". 
Canellun, Deya, Mallorca, Sept. 3rd, 1950.
Usual fold marks.  
Quote Item No. 2149
Price:  £155.00  

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