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Percy Macquoid. Two Autograph Letters Signed to Shirley Slocombe, artist, and related material. Furniture Historian. Two letters SIGNED by Macquoid,one by amanuensis (he apologises for this - unwell). 3 pages, 4to, and 4 pages 8vo, good condition. He discusses matters which relate to their work on "A History of English Furniture" for which Slocombe provided illustrations - progress on a... |
£250.00 | |
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Robert Bell. Four autograph letters signed to J.T.J. Hewlett, author of "Peter Priggins" and others. Robert Bell (DNB) (4; 1845), author and editor. (Jan.) He encourages Hewlett to contribute to a "publication called the Great Gun, the scope of which is more comprehensive than Punch". (See George Alder (#3127)). He characterises the sort of contribution required, and gives other detail... |
£100.00 | |
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Robert W. Chambers. Autograph Letter Signed to "Major Blake". American novelist (see American DNB). Three pages, 8vo, laid down on a piece of card, sl. soiled but text clear and complete. He acknowledges receiving a letter and goes on "I red the fascinating book with the greatest possible pleasure. It is charmingly written, and so interesting that when it... |
£100.00 | |
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Samuel Phillips. Autograph Letter Signed to J.T.J. Hewlett, author of "Peter Priggins" and other books. Samuel Phillips (DNB), journalist and novelist, editor and owner of John Bull (see #s3131, 3132) at one time. He refers to an introductory letter to Blackwoods and sympathises with him in ill health: "Essex is not the place for poor curates or . . . poor literary men". Originally from a larger... |
£45.00 | |
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The Leadenhall Press - Field and Tuer The Leadenhall Press Sixteenpenny Series. Illustrated Gleanings from the Classics. Numbers 1 to 4. 4 volumes, 4to, each with a preface by John Oldcastle. Number one: Sir Charles Grandison, 36 pages, 6 illustrations; number two: Solomon Gessner ("The Swiss Theocritus"), 28 pages, 6 illustrations and extra portrait; number three: Thomson's Seasons, 32 pages, 4 illustrations and extra portrait;... |
£200.00 | |
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Thomas John Dibdin Literary Record and Bibliography [in manuscript] compiled by his great-nephew Edward Rimbault Dibdin The Dictionary of National Biography states that T. J. Dibdin (1771-1841, closely associated with Sadler's Wells, Drury Lane and the Surrey Theatre) wrote 'nearly two thousand songs and about two hundred operas and plays'. This list, which covers the whole of his life from his earliest known... |
£450.00 | |
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W. Shackell. Two Autograph Letters Signed to J.T.J. Hewlett, author of "Peter Priggins" and others. (John Bull) W. Shackell (2; 1844), prob. printer (BBTI) and publisher and/or joint-proprietor of John Bull. He encourages contributions and anticipates "the Proprietor" making a proposition "for your further and permanent connexion with [John Bull]." See immediately above and below for more... |
£80.00 | |
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William Edwards. One Autograph Letter Signed to J.T.J. Hewlett, author of "Peter Priggins" and other books. [William] Edwards, possibly the proprietor of the Great Gun mentioned by Robert Bell (above #3128)), Mrs Gruneisen (with husband #3134), and in Diaries (J.T.J. Hewlett below). He accepts a Bill of Exchange and discusses it. Originally from a larger archive, the residue of which is described in #... |
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William Mudford. Seven Autograph Letters Signed to J.T.J. Hewlett, author of "Peter Priggins" and others. (John Bull) William Mudford (DNB) (7; 1844), author and journalist. Five letters are signed "The Editor of the John Bull" or similar but two are signed by Mudford who suggests that his name is no longer a secret to Hewlett because of Barham. (Although the article in DNB on Mudford says that he... |
£200.00 | |
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William Naisby. Autograph Letter Signed to J.T.J. Hewlett, author of "Peter Priggins" and other books. William Naisby (1; [1843]), giving a detailed and hostile critique of Hewlett's College Life. Originally from a larger archive, the residue of which is described in #3157 (Hewlett's papers), this and other items appear in my ABE inventory in book id#s 3124-3156. |
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