Latest additions
| Author, Title, Summary | Price | |
|---|---|---|
|
The Duchy of Cornwall [ MESSRS COUTTS & CO., BANKERS ] Three manuscript orders authorising payments, and three typewritten orders cancelling payments. 4to and 8vo. Somewhat grubby and creased, but in good condition otherwise. The six items, all addressed to Messrs Coutts & Company, are, in chronological order: ITEM 1, 5 manuscript pages, 4to, headed 'Duchy of Cornwall, | Buckingham Gate, S.W. | 1912. [18 March 1912], from the Receiver... |
£250.00 | |
|
William Blathwayt Letter Signed (poss.. copy) to unnamed male correspondent. English politician (1649?-1717); Secretary to Sir William Temple at the Hague, 1668; on diplomatic missions to Rome, Stockholm and Copenhagen; Secretary of State to William III; Member of Parliament. One page. Dimensions of paper roughly seven inches by eleven. Poor: paper discoloured and with... |
£250.00 | |
|
[LOCAL HISTORY: ROCHESTER, ENGLAND] Thomas Lediard An important piece of local history. Neatly engrossed on one side of piece of stained and discoloured parchment, dimensions approximately 24 inches by 22 inches. Signed at foot by Lediard and with his seal (in poor condition). Signatures of five witnesses on reverse. In poor condition but with... |
£250.00 | |
|
Andrew Spottiswoode . Autograph Letter Signed to J.T.J. Hewlett, author of "Peter Priggins" and other books. Andrew Spottiswoode ( Boase), of the printers and publishers (BBTI as printers only), proprietor of Hood's Magazine from early 1844 (see Jane Hood #3138). Hewlett has obviously followed Hurst's suggestion (above) that he contact Spottiswoode about the editorship of the Pictorial Times and... |
£120.00 | |
|
B.W. Chidlaw, A.M. 48pp., 12mo, unopened save title, original green wrappers, chipped, good condition"Yr Ail Argraffiad" (Second edition - no record found of a "First"). The author, in a "Notice" (the only English in the work), says "I have disposed of my Book called "The American," to Mr. J. Jones Printer,... |
£800.00 | |
|
C.L. Gruneisen. Autograph Letter Signed to J.T.J. Hewlett, author of "Peter Priggins" and other books. C. L. Gruneisen (DNB), journalist, music critic, editor of the Great Gun. He explores the possibility that the author of Peter Priggins might write for the Great Gun, explaining his policy and agreeing "in Masonic confidence" to give him the names of the principal contributors.(Presumably these... |
£85.00 | |
|
Drinkwater Meadows Autograph Letter Signed to J.T.J. Hewlett, author of "Peter Priggins" and other books. Drinkwater Meadows (DNB), actor, taking up Hewlett's offer of help to get him published in the New Monthly Magazine. (Nothing by Meadows is listed in the Wellesley Index for NMM, but he contributed a series to Ainsworth's Magazine, Oct. 1845-August 1845.) Originally from a larger archive, the... |
£45.00 | |
|
Edward L. Stone (inscription). Collector (see Cannon, "American Book Collectors" (1941), pp.198-9, referring to Stone's typographical collection which went to the Alderman Library, University of Virginia in 1938, after his death). Printed Pamphlet, 8pp., 8vo, rust around staples, mainly good. INSCRIBED by Stone: "Book Label... |
£150.00 | |
|
Edward Stirling Four Autograph Letters Signed to J.T.J. Hewlett, author of "Peter Priggins" and other books. Edward Stirling (Boase), dramatist and theatre manager, mainly discussing the dramatisation and prospective performance of Hewlett's Peter Priggins - as a farce. Originally from a larger archive, the residue of which is described in #3157 (Hewlett's papers), this and other items appear in my ABE... |
£85.00 | |
|
Frederick Oldfield Ward. Six Autograph Letter Signed to J.T.J. Hewlett, author of "Peter Priggins" and other books. Frederick Oldfield Ward, temporary editor of Hood's Magazine (see "The Letters of Thomas Hood", passim). He discusses the prestige of a name (such as "Peter Priggins") and speculates that authors write better under the name "to which their fame is attached". Colburn is trying to insist that... |
£150.00 |
