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[CLAUD LOVAT FRASER] [Claude Lovat Fraser] Illustrated handbill for two of his publications. Printed on unwatermarked tissue paper. Dimensions of paper roughly seven and a half centimeters by eleven and a half. A very good copy of a frail and ephemeral item. An attractive illustration by Fraser of an ivy-clad wall memorial topped by a cherub encloses the following 'There are Published... |
£55.00 | |
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William Charles Macready, distinguished Victorian actor [Benjamin Nottingham Webster, actor-manager; George Ticknor Curtis (1812-94), historian; John Forster; Astor Place Riot, New York, 1849] An interesting letter from one great of the nineteenth-century stage to another. See the entries on Macready, Webster and Forster in the Oxford DNB. Curtis is a noted Federalist historian. 4pp, 16mo. Bifolium with mourning border. (His eldest daughter Nina had died at the age of twenty on 24... |
£100.00 | |
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W. H. Russell [Sir William Howard Russell] (1820-1907), correspondent for The Times in the Crimean War, American Civil War, Indian Mutiny [A. M. Broadley [Alexander Meyrick Broadley] (1847-1916)] According to Russell’s entry in the Oxford DNB, while reporting on the Civil War, he was described by one American newspaper as ‘the most famous newspaper correspondent the world has ever seen'. The inscription on his memorial in St Paul’s Cathedral calls him ‘'the first and greatest of War... |
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Tom Taylor (1817-1880), editor of ‘Punch’, journalist, author and civil servant [Rev. Alexander James Donald D’Orsey (1812-1894); cholera epidemic in Madeira, 1856] See his entry in the Oxford DNB. D’Orsey was Professor of Elocution at University College, London. 4pp, 12mo. Bifolium. On aged, brittle paper, with slight wear and discoloration, a few closed tears along folds and traces of stub adhering to second leaf, but with entire text clear and intact. A... |
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Thomas Coutts (1735-1822), Scottish banker, a founder of the London banking house Coutts & Co. [Prince Frederick Augustus (1773-1843), Duke of Sussex] See his entry and that of the Duke of Sussex in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo, on first leaf of bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with strip of tape from mount adhering to blank second leaf. With two folds. The recipient is not named; signed ‘Thomas Coutts’. Twenth-two lines of... |
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Sir Wentworth Dilke [Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1st Baronet] (1810-1869), Whig politician, Leading Commissioner of the Great Exhibition of 1851 See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. Signed ‘W Dilke’. Embossed armorial letterhead of a falcon. The recipient is not named. In good condition, lightly aged, neatly inserted in trimmed windowpane mount. Twice folded for postage. Thirteen lines of text in his distinctive close backwards-... |
£35.00 | |
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Sir Richard Cross [Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross] (1823-1914), Conservative politician, Secretary of State for India and then Home Secretary [George Cubitt, 1st Baron Ashcombe (1828-1917) See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. On first leaf of bifolium, with the reverse of the second leaf docketed ‘Sir Richard Cross / Home Secretary’. In good condition, lightly aged, with strip of tape from mount adhering to second leaf, and lightly folded. Headed ‘Private’. Addressed to ‘Geo... |
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Sir Matthew John Tierney (1776-1845), Anglo-Irish surgeon [Sir Francis Freeling (1764-1836), Secretary of the General Post Office; Benjamin Critchett, Inspector of Letter Carriers] See the entries on Tierney (Physician-in-Ordinary to George IV and William IV) and Freeling (also a noted bibliophile) in the Oxford DNB. The letter is 3pp, 12mo, with underlinings in red pencil (probably by Freeling), and the reverse of the second leaf carrying the address and annotations by... |
£120.00 | |
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Sir Malcolm Sargent (1895-1967), conductor; Sir Michael Hordern (1911-1994), actor and the original voice of Paddington Bear; Alda Noni (1916-2011), soprano; Edinburgh International Festival, 1953 2pp, 12mo. The five signatures in pencil on a single Festival letterhead. In good condition, slightly discoloured, with two unobtrusive dabs of glue from mount at head of reverse. The three signatures on the recto are headed by Noni’s large bold one: ‘Alda Noni / Edinburgh 1953’. Beneath this is... |
£65.00 | |
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Sir Henry Halford (1766-1844), physician extraordinary to George III, George IV, William IV and the young Victoria, and President of the Royal College of Physicians See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On first leaf of bifolium. Lightly worn, with blank second leaf carrying traces of mount. The recipient is not named, and the letter is signed ‘Henry Halford’. The subject is probably Halford’s ‘Nugae Metricae’, privately printed in the same year.... |
£50.00 |
