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Author, Title, Summary Subject Price
Samuel Cousins (1801-1887), RA, English mezzotint engraver [ Thomas Faed (1826-1900), RA, Scottish artist ]

[ Samuel Cousins, engraver. ] Autograph Note Signed ('Saml: Cousins') to the Scottish artist Thomas Faed

1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged, with small piece of mount adhering at head. Accepting an invitation to dinner.

£30.00
Sir Robert Rawlinson (1810-1898), English civil engineer in the field of public health and sanitation [ Thomas Faed (1826-1900), RA, Scottish artist ]

[ Sir Robert Rawlinson, civil engineer. ] Autograph Note Signed ('Robert Rawlinson'), accepting a dinner invitation from Scottish artist Thomas Faed.

1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged, with small part of paper mount adhering at head. Accepting a dinner invitation on 20 November.

£25.00
Battle of Britain, 1940 [Royal Air Force; Second World War; The Times]

[Battle of Britain, 1940; printed.] Offprint from The Times of ‘An airman to his mother / The fight with evil / “My earthly mission is fulfilled”’.

A nice piece of WW2 RAF ephemera, written on the eve of the Battle of Britain. Scarce: the only copies on JISC at the National Library of Scotland and Bishopsgate Institute in London. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. The ‘Text of the Letter’ is printed across the...

£80.00
Thomas Faed (1826-1900), RA, Scottish artist

[ Thomas Faed, RA, Scottish artist. ] Autograph Signature and Christmas message.

1p., 12mo. In fair condition, lightly-aged and spotted, with minor traces of glue from mount on reverse. Reads: 'With the Compliments of the Season to all | from | Thomas Faed | 25 Der. 1881'. For information on Faed, see his entry in the Oxford DNB.

£30.00
Thomas Faed (1826-1900), RA, Scottish artist

[ Thomas Faed, RA, Scottish artist. ] Printed handbill poem in Scottish dialect by 'Tom Faed', titled '"The Shadow"', and beginning 'Oh wae is me! - I sit alane'.

1p., 12mo. Nicely printed on one side of a piece of laid watermarked paper. In good condition, lightly aged and worn, with slight loss to one corner caused by removal from an album. Sixteen-line poem in four four-line stanzas. Signed in type at foot 'TOM FAED.' The poem is a lament by the...

£120.00
William Black (1841-1898), Scottish journalist and novelist [ Thomas Faed (1826-1900), RA, Scottish artist ]

[ William Black, Scottish novelist. ] Autograph Note Signed, asking Scottish painter Thomas Faed to second his application for membership of the Athenaeum.

1p., 12mo. In fair condition, lightly-aged, and laid down on a piece of card. Reads: 'July 26 | My dear Faed, | Would you mind seconding me at the Athenaeum? I believe Tom Hughes has put down my name. | Yours faithfully | William Black.' According to Black's entry in the Oxford DNB, he 'studied...

£35.00
William Morris and Jessie M. King [ Isabel Bonus ]

The Defence of Guenevere and other Poems by William Morris. Illustrated by Jessie M. King.

8vo. 310pp. Red cloth, gilt extra, with ornate design to front board and spine. First edition with King's illustrations. A good copy of an extremely attractive book, in binding with light fading in parts, but gilt still bright, and with the merest wear at head of spine. Bookplate by Isabel Bonus...

£280.00
Hamilton Harty [Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty (1879 – 1941) Irish composer, conductor, pianist and organist]

[Hamilton Harty, Irish composer, conductor, pianist ] Autograph Signature with date.

Small album page, 14 x 11cm, one edge rough from removal from album, good condition. See Image

£25.00
Harry Plunket Greene, Irish Baritone.

[Harry Plunket Greene, Irish Baritone.] Fragment of music, headed and footed by Greene, Signed Harry Plunket Greene and dated.

Part of page of lined paper, 18 x 11cms, laid down on slightly larger paper, af=ged but clear as follows: The two sisters o' Binnorie | [Music configuration] | 'Bonny St. Johnston stands on Tay!' | Harry Plunkett Greene | June 26 1920. See IMAGE

£35.00
Charles Richard Fox (1796-1873), soldier/politician etc., illegitimate son of Henry Richard, 3rd Bar.Holland and Lady Elizabeth Vassall, later Lady Webster and even later later Lady Holland.

[ The Hollands ] Autograph Letter Signed "C Fox" to "Sharpe" , about the Duc de Richelieu (6th Duke) abd his trip to Scotland.).

Three pages, 8vo, sl. crumpled but text clear and complete, though something of a scrawl. He apologises for hasty writing, and asks of "the Exhibition at Manchester [Art Treasures Exhibition?] is open or to be seen on Sundays [Underlined]. The D[uc] de Richelieu is going to Scotland & can...

£90.00