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Author, Title, Summary Price
Hilary Pepler and David Jones [S. Dominic's Press]

Libellus lapidum.

Small 8vo. Pages: viii + 24 + [4 blanks]. Original cream paper wraps: title and price in red and engraving in green on front. Wraps discoloured, rubbed, sl. turned at edge, and stained, with covers loosening and loss at foot of spine. Internally sound and tight, but quite heavily foxed....

£90.00
Banks and Miles, designers and typographers [Colin Banks (1932-2002); John Miles; Monty Shaw [Montague Shaw; the Post Office; British Telecom; London Underground]

[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.

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...

£320.00
Harry Graham [Jocelyn Henry Clive 'Harry' Graham (1874?1936)], writer, poet, humourist, journalist, soldier, traveller, inventor of ruthless rhymes.

[Annotated typescript; play] Charlotte Corday A Tragedy in One Act (C'est le crime qui fait la honte, et non pas l'echafaud, titlepage motto)

[50] leaves (rectos numbered only), 4to, stiff boards, good condition, typescript, annotated by the author, additions, corrections, excisions, who has inscribed the recto of the free endpaper Harry Graham. || Royal Court. | Palace of Westminster. | London, S.W. | England. The scene is set in...

£400.00
[Sunday Graphic/Times] L.G. Carey, Newspaper Reader/ Corrector

[ Corrector; Press; Printing; Newspaper Reader ] Collection of correspondence, membership cards and other ephemera tracking Carey's career as Newspaper Reader.

All items freshly mounted in a photo album, very good condition. The core of the collection is a full series of membership cards for the Association of Correctors of the Press (1949-1965), London Typographical Society (1966), National Graphical Association (1967-1988). With their variant...

£250.00
[1841 Census; Public Record Office]

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

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...

£225.00
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937), English Conservative politician, signatory of Locarno Treaties, winner of Nobel Peace Prize.

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

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.

£30.00
Thomas Erskine, Baron Erskine (1750 -1823) lawyer and Whig politician, Lord High Chancellor 1806-1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents.

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

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...

£56.00
Robert Fitzroy, Captain of The Beagle, meteorologist, etc. [Charles Darwin]

[Robert Fitzroy, Captain of The Beagle, meteorologist, etc. [Charles Darwin]] Autograph Letter Signed Robt Fitzroy to P.L. Simmonds [Peter Lund Simmonds] writer on Arctic Exploration, etc.] mentioning Darwin + other members of the Beagle's crew.

Four pages, 12mo, some damage and staining, but text clear apart from the loss of part of a t and e and of one or two other letters. SEE IMAGE. Text: I have the pleasure of being able to express my concurrence with much of Mr. Parry's letter (which I return) and of being also able to assure you...

£600.00
The Distin Family, an ensemble of British musicians

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

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...

£75.00
John Singleton Copley (1772-1863), 1st Baron Lyndhurst [ Lord Lyndhurst ], Lord Chancellor of Great Britain

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

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...

£65.00
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