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P. J. & A. E. Dobell, booksellers, 77 Charing Cross Road [Shakespeare; Ellen Terry; Henry Arthur Jones]

Shakespearian and Dramatic Catalogue [including books from the libraries of Ellen Terry and Henry Arthur Jones]

8vo, 72 pp. Stapled and unbound. Complete. On aged paper. The outer leaves are worn and coming apart at the spine. Otherwise the item is sound and tight. 1976 items. Items 783 to 883 concern 'the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy'. Items 888 to 893 are 'Books from the Library of the late Dame Ellen...

£50.00
The Essex House Press [C. R. Ashbee; The Guild of Handicraft]

[Essex House Press] Finely printed prospectus & order form for 'forthcoming issue of the sixth book from the Essex House Press' - F. S. Ellis's Shakespeare's poems, with R. Savage frontis. and 'new alphabet of bloomers designed by C. R. Ashbee'.

Bifolium (21.5 x 14.5 cm): 4 pp. Good, on lightly-aged good-quality laid paper. Lightly folded. First page headed with a 5 cm square illustration of the front of Essex House. Begins: 'The Guild of Handicraft announce the forthcoming issue of the sixth book from the Essex House Press: | The Poems...

£180.00
Edward Ford [J. H. Meyers, printer of Enfield, Middlesex; Augusta Maclagan]

[Printed item, inscribed by the author.] Tewin-Water, or the Story of Lady Cathcart; being a supplement to the History of Enfield, With an Appendix of Additional Notes, by Edward Ford.

77pp., 8vo. Tastefully printed. In red cloth binding with title in gilt on cover. In fair condition, with light signs of age and wear. Inscription at head of title-page: 'Augusta Maclagan | from the Author | Enfield | Nov. 18. 1882.' Uncommon.

 £120.00
[Wilfred Josephs, composer (1927-1997)]

[Manuscript Notebook] Rebecca Diary [Notes concerning the libretto of the opera Rebecca, music by Wilfred Josephs], based on the Daphne du Maurier novel

Circa 78pp., used, some pages added, text worked over, red boards, hinge strain, mainly good condition. Indexes to Acts, lines through many sections. Contents include: questions for Wilfred [Josephs] (Sets | Scenes | Act II???]; stage directions; suggestions about characters; directions; music...

£280.00
[Napoleon Bonaparte; Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), French painter]

[Napoleon Bonaparte] White ceramic tile with printed black and white reproduction of Paul Delaroche's painting of Napoleon Bonaparte seated at Fontainebleau

Dimensions of tile 16 x 12 cm. Dimensions of print 14 x 10.5 cm. The photographic image has been reversed, with Napoleon's left hand draped over the chair. In good condition, with white label with word 'Napoleon' pasted to reverse. In remains of light-green card box.

 £180.00
[An Aging Composer in Love; Ferguson's Gang] H V Jervis-Read [Harold Vincent Jervis-Read], English composer (b.1883), Royal Academy of Music.

[An Aging Composer, H.V. Jervis-Read] Lge archive of letters, signed HJR or Fitzjohn or F (as of Fitzjohn Avenue, Hampstead), to his mistress, Brunhild 'Brynnie' Granger, with a body of printed and ms material relating to his life and career.

An unusual survival, the letters of a composer, Harold Jervis-Read, to his lover illustrating the growth of a relationship (and an ability to express his feelings) against the backcloth (sometimes foreground) of his musical activities, and his marriage. Total of letters circa 350 (three hundred...

£450.00
[Auction Catalogue; Numismatic] Major Auguste Daufresne de la Chevalerie (1818-1881); H. Cordemans-de Bruyne; Charles Dupriez; Belgium; printed Belgian numismatic auction catalogue]

[printed Belgian numismatic auction catalgue] Catalogue des Monnaies, M?dailles, M?reaux, etc. formant les Collections delaiss?es par feu M. le Major A. Daufresne de la Chevalerie et provenant de divers autres amateurs.

12mo, [ii] + 28 pp. In original pink printed wraps. Card frontispiece in three panels, folding out to 18.5 x 37.5 cm., carrying facsimiles of 48 numbered coins in collotype. Text clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, with minor damp staining at foot, in chipped and faded wraps. 893...

£95.00
[ Girl Guide movement in 1930s Great Britain; Foxlease, Hampshire; 'E. Tait'; 'Miss Popham' ]

[ Girl Guides in 1930s Britain. ] Album of photographs of a company of Girl Guides camping at a number of locations including Foxlease in Hampshire and Tarrant Keyneston in Dorset, taken between 1929 and 1936, compiled by 'E. Tait'.

189 black and white photographs, ranging in size from 15 x 10.5 cm to 4.5 x 7 cm, loosely inserted (i.e. not mounted but removable) on the fifty leaves of a 20 x 30 cm album. While the photographs themselves are in good condition, the album is somewhat worn and aged. Painted in large Gothic...

£220.00
[Accounts of an 18th-century Derbyshire wine merchant; William Cavendish of Dovebridge; Brook Boothby; Thomas Stanhope; William Sacheverell; the wine trade; vintners]

[ Wine merchant's account ] Itemised manuscript accounts of an early eighteenth-century Derbyshire wine merchant, for customers including William Cavendish of Dovebridge, Thomas Stanhope, William Sacheverell, Reginald Cynder.

15 pp, narrow folio (14.5 x 38 cm), in the remains of a volume which has been reused and cut up (see below). Although aged and dogeared, the eight pages carrying the accounts are in reasonable condition, with all texts clear and complete, although the last leaf of the eight has the lower third...

£650.00
'The Chinese Miners of the F.M.S. [Federated Malay States]' [Charles Ingle Robinson, Senior Inspector of Mines, F.M.S.; Malaysia; Malaya]

[Chinese Miners; Malaya] Testimonial, in English, in the form of a printed poster, presented to Robinson on the occasion of his retirement as Senior Inspector of Mines, F.M.S., with list of names.

Printed in blue on one side of a piece of white paper roughly 60 x 40 cm. Good: lightly-aged and creased. The text is enclosed within an ornate decorative border, and is headed 'Charles Ingle Robinson Esqr., | B. Sc. (Lond.), Associate R. S. M., | M. I. C. E., M. I. M. M., | Senior Inspector of...

£85.00
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