AUTOGRAPH

[Montague Shaw; typography; Banks & Miles] Collection of material relating to the designers and typographers Banks and Miles [Colin Banks; John Miles], assembled by Montague Shaw for his monograph on the firm.

Author: 
Banks and Miles, designers and typographers [Colin Banks (1932-2002); John Miles; Monty Shaw [Montague Shaw; the Post Office; British Telecom; London Underground]
Publication details: 
Dating from between 1988 to 1991.
£320.00

Monty Shaw's 'Banks and Miles: Thirty Years of Design Evolution' was supposedly published by Lund Humphries (London) in February 1993 but no copy can be found on the internet (one listed on WorldCat appears to be a ghost).. This collection, in a buff card folder, contains material relating to Shaw's monograph, grouped as follows: ONE. Letters to Shaw from Colin Banks: Three Autograph Letters Signed (one 4to, 2 pp; two on compliments slips, 12mo, 1 p), two Typed Letters Signed (both 4to, 1 p), and three Autograph Note Signed (one 12mo, 1 p, also on a compliments slip; two on press releases).

[Census 1841] Public Record Office manuscript copy of the Census Schedules for the whole of England (excluding London) in 1841.

Author: 
[1841 Census; Public Record Office]
Publication details: 
[Early twentieth-century?]
£225.00

Folio, 65 pp. In a number of hands. Clear and complete. Heavily aged, in worn binding with front board and flyleaf detached. Many of the leaves are blindstamped at the head with the royal crest. With stamps of the Public Record Office Library, and withdrawal stamp from 'TNA Library' (The National Archives Library) dated 28 July 2007. At head of flyleaf: 'This volume is a manuscript copy of C 1 3 on the search room shelves'. A finding aid, numerating the census returns for the districts of the various counties from Bedford to Yorkshire, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man.

[Montague Shaw; typography; Banks & Miles] Collection of material relating to the designers and typographers Banks and Miles [Colin Banks; John Miles], assembled by Montague Shaw for his monograph on the firm.

Author: 
Banks and Miles, designers and typographers [Colin Banks (1932-2002); John Miles; Monty Shaw [Montague Shaw; the Post Office; British Telecom; London Underground]
Publication details: 
Dating from between 1988 to 1991.
£320.00

Monty Shaw's 'Banks and Miles: Thirty Years of Design Evolution' was supposedly published by Lund Humphries (London) in February 1993 but no copy can be found on the internet (one listed on WorldCat appears to be a ghost).. This collection, in a buff card folder, contains material relating to Shaw's monograph, grouped as follows: ONE. Letters to Shaw from Colin Banks: Three Autograph Letters Signed (one 4to, 2 pp; two on compliments slips, 12mo, 1 p), two Typed Letters Signed (both 4to, 1 p), and three Autograph Note Signed (one 12mo, 1 p, also on a compliments slip; two on press releases).

[Census 1841] Public Record Office manuscript copy of the Census Schedules for the whole of England (excluding London) in 1841.

Author: 
[1841 Census; Public Record Office]
Publication details: 
[Early twentieth-century?]
£225.00

Folio, 65 pp. In a number of hands. Clear and complete. Heavily aged, in worn binding with front board and flyleaf detached. Many of the leaves are blindstamped at the head with the royal crest. With stamps of the Public Record Office Library, and withdrawal stamp from 'TNA Library' (The National Archives Library) dated 28 July 2007. At head of flyleaf: 'This volume is a manuscript copy of C 1 3 on the search room shelves'. A finding aid, numerating the census returns for the districts of the various counties from Bedford to Yorkshire, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man.

[Austen Chamberlain] Part of Autograph Letter Signed ('Austen Chamberlain')('clipped') to unknown correspondent.

Author: 
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937), English Conservative politician, signatory of Locarno Treaties, winner of Nobel Peace Prize.
Publication details: 
No placeor date.
£30.00

Part of Letter, c.16 x 7cm, good condition. Surviving text: [...] I hope these notes will be useful, but I have no papers or books of reference here. Image on request.

[Thomas Erskine, Baron Erskine, lawyer and Whig politician, Lord High Chancellor] Autograph Note Signed Erskine to a brother.

Author: 
Thomas Erskine, Baron Erskine (1750 -1823) lawyer and Whig politician, Lord High Chancellor 1806-1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents.
Publication details: 
[No place] 16 Feb. 1806.
£56.00

One page, cr. 8vo, fold marks, good condition. Docketed on verso re. subject , an Armorial enquiry (presumably a family matter). A difficult hand [??] Our Father had a Griffin & two ostriches but in all the books [ours?] are two ostriches - I find in our Heralds Office that younger Brothers created peers take the [?] of their own family with a Mark of their descent as younger sons such as a Mullet in my case as some other distinction. | Yours affectionately | Erskine.

[The Distin Family, an ensemble of British musicians] Autograph Signatures of John, Geo. Fredk, Henry, William Alfred, and Theodore Distin

Author: 
The Distin Family, an ensemble of British musicians
Publication details: 
17 Dec. 1845.
£75.00

One page, 18.5 x 22cm, laid down on very slightly larger paper, staining (by glue prob.), but signatures clear. See Image. Note: The Distin family was an ensemble of British musicians in the 19th century who performed on brass instruments, and from 1845 promoted the saxhorn. One of them, Henry Distin, later became a noted brass instrument manufacturer in the United Kingdom and United States. [Wikipedia]

[ John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst. ] Autograph Letter Third Person (The Chancellor, with his humble duty [...] to your Majesty [Queen Victoria]

Author: 
John Singleton Copley (1772-1863), 1st Baron Lyndhurst [ Lord Lyndhurst ], Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
Publication details: 
George Street, 27 January 1842.
£65.00

One page, cr. 8vo, residue of tipping in, but text good and complete, as follows: The Chancellor, with his humble duty to your Majesty, submits for Your Majesty's signature, if your Majesty shall so please, two Warrants for enabling Your Majesty's Justices Serjeants and Counsel and others therein named to go their respective circuits.

[H. M. Tomlinson, author] Autograph Letter Signed ('H. M Tomlinson') to Mr [Oultom?], giving his viewpoint on WAR, and apparently responding to a request for a list of Tomlinson's books

Author: 
H. M. Tomlinson [ Henry Major Tomlinson ] (1873-1958), English journalist and author
Publication details: 
On letterhead of Ridgewood, Croham Manor Road, South Croydon, 2 Dec. 1931.
£100.00

One page, 8vo, good condition. He begins: No, I don't understand people who regard war - in the light of recent years - as anything but obscene. Your own case is different. The RAMC are not soldiers. Even Quakers served with the ambulances. If you are interested, I think this is about right [...] He continues with a list of his works from Sea & the Jungle to that little tribute to Norman Douglas. Eleven items listed. He concludes Your letter gratified me very much. It is good to know Blunden's stuff & [Sansons?]. See Image.

[Sir Francis Workman McNaghtan, Anglo-Irish judge in India; Madras] Autograph Letter Signed F. Workman MacNaghten to William Behnes, Sculptor, about busts/casts presumably fashioned by Behnes for him.

Author: 
Sir Francis Workman MacNaghten, Anglo-Irish judge in India
Publication details: 
Bushmills House, 10 February 1835
£80.00

One page, 4to, bifolium, letter page aged but in good condition, minor closed tear, but verso of second leaf, address page, is grubby, with substantial closed tear, with added annotations (brief biography of Nacnaghtan, etc.). Text: I have been here for some days but by a letter from Roepark I learned that a case supposed to contain the Bust had arrived there - I do not wish the cast to be packed up at present.

[Sigismond Thalberg, Austrian composer and virtuoso pianists.] Autograph Signature S. Thalberg.

Author: 
Sigismond Thalberg (1812 ? 21871) Austrian composer and virtuoso pianists.
Publication details: 
No place or date given.
£35.00

Bold Signature on paper, 11.5 x 6cm, laid down on slightly larger pink paper, some glue staining marginally affecting the S.. See Image.

[Admiral of the Fleet Lord KeyesAutograph Signature with date, Roger Keyes A.F. | 28th Aptil 1940.

Author: 
Roger Keyes, Admiral of the Fleet, later Lord Keyes, senior Royal Navy officer
Publication details: 
28 April 1940.
£30.00

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. One page extracted from an autograph album, hence one rough edge, 14 x 11cms, good condition. The Keyes is on the verso. On the recto is the signature of bandleader Charles Shadwell, his signature preceded by Sincerely Yours Images on request.

[Harry Lauder and Amy Evans (Welsh soprano)] Autograph Signatures with sentiments by Lauder and Amy Evans.

Author: 
Harry Lauder, Scottish singer, comedian and actor AND Amy Evans (1884?1983), Welsh soprano and actress AND Henry Simson, Royal gynaecologist; and wife Lena [Ashwell] Simson, actress
Lauder
Publication details: 
No place or date.
£75.00
Lauder

Attractive Page extracted from autograph album, 19.5 x 16cms, sl. foxed, edge rough where extracted, good condition, comprising: Harry Lauder's signature to which he appends the phrase, The saftest o'the Family, with the signatures of Henry Simson and Lena [Ashwell] Simson (SEE IMAGE). On verso, signature after subscription as follows: With all good wishes, | Sincerely Yours | Amy Evans| 1914.

[Lord Canning, Viceroy of India] Autograph Note, Third Person, to a Mr Perry, presumably an M.P.

Author: 
Lord Canning [Charles John Canning, Earl Canning (1812-1862)], Governor-General and first Viceroy of India
Publication details: 
Pansganger, 18 Oct. [1842?].
£50.00

One page, 12mo, vestiges of tipping on on verso,text, aging but good clear condition. Lord Canning presents his compliments to Mr. Perry & begs to inform Mr. P. that he will be at the House of Lords at 2 o'clock tomorrow to officiate in the place of Lord Jersey.

["A stupendous artist": Adelina Patti, Italian opera singer.] Autograph Adelina Patti Sederstrom with relevant Sentiment..

Author: 
Adelina Patti [born Adela Juana Maria Patti; latterly Baroness Cederstrom] (1843-1919), Italian opera singer described by Verdi as "a stupendous artist".
Patti
Publication details: 
September 25th 1907; no place.
£50.00
Patti

See her entries in Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Oxford DNB. Decorative page extracted from Autograph Album, 19 x 16cm, two small closed tears not impinging on text, fair condition. Text: A beautiful voice is the gift of God. - Adelina Patti Sederstrom | September 25th 1907. Sederstrom (or Cederstrom) being her married name. SEE IMAGE. On verso details of two other parties (unknowns).

[Lady Hester Stanhope, adventurer and socialite.] Full Autograph Signature Hester Lucy Stanhope, only.

Author: 
Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839), adventurer, traveller and socialite
Stanhope
Publication details: 
Without date or place.
£150.00
Stanhope

Full Signature on irregular scrap of paper, 10.5 x 2.5 at extremities, sl. mottled by glue used to apply it to slightly larger rectangular paper. Signature Clear. See Scan.

[Jack Benny, American comedian] Autograph Signature.

Author: 
Jack Benny, American comedian
Benny
Publication details: 
No place or date
£65.00
Benny

Page extracted from album, c.17.5 x 12cm, Extensive staining (paper aging), but image clear. See Scan.

[Ethel Bentham, progressive medical doctor, a politician and a suffragist.] Substantial Autograph Letter Signed Ethel Bentham to a Miss Brooks

Author: 
Ethel Bentham (1861 ? 1931) progressive medical doctor, a politician and a suffragist.
Publication details: 
[Embossed heading] 110 Beaufort Street, 21 Dec. 1930.
£45.00

Two pages, 8vo, bifolium, second leaf tipped onto larger piece of paper, very good condition. Text: She thanks her for a cake and for Christmas greetings but explains a delay by referring to her tiredness, presumably because of Parliamentary duties, having been elected in 1929]. I was getting so tired that it was as much as I could do to carry on my work till end of session - now since the House rose on Friday aft[ernoon] I am not doing a blessed thing for 10 days - just being as lazy as I know how to be.

[Mantovani] Black and White Photo (playing violin) SIGNED by him Yours sincerely Mantovani. WITH his Compliments slip.

Author: 
Annunzio Mantovani, Anglo-Italian violinist and conductor (1905-1980), composer, and light orchestra-style entertainer.
Mantovani
Publication details: 
No date.
£56.00
Mantovani

Black & White Photograph (at foot Radio Pictorial Photo Card), 8.5 x 13.5cm, WITH: Compliments, 13 x 9cm Slip headed Mantovani and his Tipica Orchestra, in the middle WITH A.P. MANTOVANIS, | COMPLIMENTS. Both in very good condition. See Scan

[Hilaire Belloc, author] Autograph Note Signed H. Belloc to The Manager. The Sunday Dispatch, declining what he thinks is an over-payment for something of his published. With envelope with address in his hand.

Author: 
Hilaire Belloc [Joseph Hilaire Pierre Ren? Belloc] (1870-1953), Anglo-French author and poet.
Publication details: 
[Headed] Tetton House, Taunton crossed out adding As from The Reform Club, Pall Mall, SW1, 21 Nov. 1936.
£80.00

One page. 8vo, fold mark, sl.dulled but clear and complete. Text: By some error the enclosed [no longer] cheque for 5 guineas has been sent me in payment for my article in last Sunday's Weekly Despatch. There can, of course, be no question of my accepting remuneration in that scale. Perhaps you will consult with those who arrange these things & let my know their conclusion.

[Ronald Storrs of the Foreign Office; Egypt, Jerusalem, Cyprus, N. Rhodesia] Typed Letter Signed Ronald Storr to a Miss Calverley, mentioning his book Orientations and Coningsby Disraeli.

Author: 
Ronald Storrs [Sir Ronald Henry Amherst Storrs (1881 -1955) official in British Foreign Office, Oriental Secretary (Cairo), Military Governor (Jerusalem), Governor (Cyprus), Governor (N.Rhodesia)]
Publication details: 
[Headed] 84 Elm Park Gardens, S.W.10, 10 November 1937.
£120.00

One page, 12mo, right edge frayed and stained, not affecting text, mainly good condition. Text: I am no less proud than touched by your letter about Orientations [underlined]. Exactly the sort of praise that encourages most. It was also very good of you to send me the book which once belonged to Coningsby Disraeli, whom I used to meet at the house of that wonderful Lady Dorothey Nevill (looking at 80 well under the age of consent). Eaton Place is still hallowed ground to me and I feel very near to anybody who remembers my father well. [...]

[Rafael Sabatini, Anglo-Italian popular novelist.] Autograph Letter Signed Rafael Sabatini to Mr. Gunter about residences in Wales..

Author: 
Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950), Anglo-Italian author of romance and adventure novels
Publication details: 
On his letterhead, Twenty-seven Fitzjohn's Avenue, NW3, 24 Jany 1928.
£80.00

1p, 12mo, blank area dusted, mainly in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Further on the subject of MAESHENDRE, which you offered me, if this is still available I think I should like to take it for 3 or 4 months from 14th March. Before definitely deciding I should like to view it & for that purpose I will run home to Glasbury on Friday or Saturday next if you can give me the offer of it firm until then. I might want the [?] to extend the term for which it is now offered if possible. | Will you please wire me tomorrow to the Adelphi Hotel Liverpool, whither I am going in the morning?

[ Prince Alexander of Battenberg [later Mountbatten]] Autograph Letter Signed Alexander of Battenberg to Col Oxley about his stay in Egypt (1915).

Author: 
Prince Alexander of Battenberg (later Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke).
Publication details: 
Embossed Royal symbol. Cairo || Monday|| [1915?]
£100.00

Two pages, 8vo, bifolium, some staining but text clear and complete. We are just off, and I want before leaving to thank you from myself and my brother for all your kindness to us during our stay in Cairo. | I can't tell you how much I enjoyed our cheery evening on Saturday. | There are great crowds going up to Khartoum this evening but Major Stock has fixed up everything for us. I am only too sorry that we shall not have the pleasure of finding you all at the [Kasr-el Nil? Qasr?] on our return, so must [underlined] look forward to meeting at home.

[Mary O'Brien, Irish poet and playwright; Arthur Murphy, C18th Irish author] Autograph Letter Signed Mary O'Brien to Michael Bourke WITH two ALSs from husband Patrick, one third person joint (trying to launch her literary career).

Author: 
Mary O'Brien [Mary O'Brien (fl. 1785 ? 1790), Irish poet and playwright who wrote during and about the Regency period.
Publication details: 
White Hall & Whitehall Court & Whitehall Chappel [sic] Stairs (No.11), 27 May 1785 and 3 Nov. 1785.
£450.00

LETTER A.

[Stuart Cloete, South African novelist] Autograph Note Signed Stuart Cloete to a Mr Oulton appreciating Oulton's response to a book of his.

Author: 
Stuart Cloete [Edward Fairly Stuart Graham Cloete (1897 ? 1976) South African novelist, essayist, biographer and short story writer.]
Publication details: 
Box 164 | Hermanus, 5 April 1972.
£35.00

One page, 8vo, lined paper, good condition. Text: Thank you for your letter - I am glad you enjoyed Vic/Son [A Victorian son: an autobiography, 1897?1922, 1972]. You are probably right about [Norman?] - Brigadier and Jessie [?] was a review actress. But there are some worse mistakes [Delville?] word left out by Type setters & a couple of others. | Anyway the main [?] is that you have had pleasure from the book [...].

[Charles Reade, novelist] Subscription only of an Autograph Letter, signed Charles Reade.

Author: 
Charles Reade (1814-1884), English novelist and playwright [Manton Marble (1834-1917), editor and proprietor of the New York World]
Publication details: 
No place but part of date (23/46) on verso.
£28.00

Paper, 16 x 6.5cm, fold mark, good condition. Subscription only as follows: Lombard St. City | I am | Your obed[ien]t serv[an]t | Charles Reade Image on request.

[John Arden, playwright] Autograph Postcard Signed John Arden to Paul Furness who'd asked about his pub-going (as he did with many authors).

Author: 
John Arden, playwright
Publication details: 
10 St Bridget's Place, Lower Galway, Ireland, 13 Oct. 1982.
£75.00

One 'page', postcard addressed to Furness, very good condition. Text: Your enquiry about publs is very interesting but I'm afraid I'm not much help. I don't even remember going to a pub in Barnsley at all. I was not brought up in a drinking environment. And while I have been involved in various political scenes since, I have never actually been attached to any group that met regularly in a pub, and at such occasional pub-meetings that I have attended, the exact locations have sliupped my memory.

[Harriet Martineau, social theorist, writer] Autograph Note Signed Harriet Martineau to Mr. Browning [presumably Robert Browning, poet] about a Bridal (wedding?).

Author: 
Harriet Martineau, social theorist, writer
Publication details: 
Saturday, | July 22d., no year given.
£380.00

One page, 12mo, embrowned by the glue that was used to lay it down on sl. larger piece of paper, but text clear and complete, as follows: We see the Bridal on Monday. Please let us see you here by six o'clock to coffee & beleive [sic] me ever yours most truly[.] Note: Harriet Martineau's longterm friendship with the Brownings is well documented.

[Charles Reade, novelist] Subscription only of an Autograph Letter, signed Charles Reade~No place but part of date (23/46) on verso.~Paper, 16 x 6.5cm, fold mark, good condition. Subscription only as follows: Lombard St. City | I am | Your obed[ien]t serv

Author: 
Charles Reade (1814-1884), English novelist and playwright [Manton Marble (1834-1917), editor and proprietor of the New York World]
Publication details: 
No place or date surviving cut.
£25.00

Part of letter, 9 x 5cm, formerly tipped on something by survivng stamp hinge, both side stained but text mainly legible. Recto: [soon?] as possible - he has been very ill - staying for three months at [Ben ??]: - but as his illness came on with indigestion I have persuaded him to take the; Verso: [?] and regards to [?] Hepburn - believe me | Yours very truly | DMMulock:- Image on request.

[Frank Sabin, leading bookseller in his time] Autograph Quotation of Eleven Manuscript items by W.M. Thackeray

Author: 
[Frank Sabin, leading bookseller in his time]
Publication details: 
[Headed Notepaper] 118 Shaftesbury Avenue, W, (late 3, Garrick Street), London [and later 46 Albemarle St, close to John Murray], BOOKS | ENGRAVINGS | AUTOGRAPHS | ETC. , 10 March 189[2?]
£150.00

Is it missing a covering note to the client? Four pages, 8vo, bifolium, text clear and complete, some staining and small closed tears. Eleven Autograph Letters AND Manuscripts. With prices. See Images for full text. ITEM 1: ALS, 2 Nov. [1839] re. story published in the Comic Almanack, quotation not found (Googlebooks); ITEM 2: ALS, 11 Aug. [1839] quotation found (Googlebooks: Library of the Late Major William H.

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