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Manuscripts - A-H
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Original typed article and corrected proof concerning the discovery of two chalk drawings of 'the Diaghilev Ballet, in Les Sylphides and Le Carnaval' by Nancy Bowden, an assistant to the London dance ...
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A funny letter about a musical commission undertaken by the composer and herald Alfred Scott Gatty which he concludes with a delightful caricatured self portrait on the grounds that 'My photo has not ...
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ff 7. Manuscript of a stirring speech to Scottish veterans made by Britain's commander on the western front in which he urged Scotland's soldiers to look after each other in peacetime - 'the hardest b...
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!['She's the sexy type but terribly hard' [Archive]](/img/products/shesthesexytype928037188-thumb.jpg) |
(20x25cm) Five letters - and photographs - from Alfred Hitchcock's daughter Patricia including her own contemporaneous account of the much debated moment from the filming of Strangers on a Train 'out ...
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Topical collection of political cartoons, possibly Scottish in origin, satirising the by election fought by Winston Churchill as the Liberal incumbent in 1908 after his appointment as President of the...
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Documents from the estate of the conductor Sir Colin Davis relating to his wife's role as an Alexander Technique tutor at the Royal Academy of Music. Lady Davis is appointed to her post in the first l...
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Early draft policy proposal written by the soon-to-be Prime Minister setting out the alternatives for what would become known as the Balfour Education Act. Writing on a three sides of a small bifo...
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Autograph letter from the poet A E Housman granting permission for the performance of one of the many musical settings of his verse. Writing in black ink on a small bifolium of notepaper (Arum Lily wa...
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A one page letter from the botanist George Bentham arranging an appointment with Mrs Hall at the Herbarium at Kew Gardens. Bentham who has been described as 'the premier systematic botanist of the nin...
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Wartime double-sided autograph note from the novelist Ernest Bramah to the reviewer Eric Forbes Boyd thanking him for his 'extremely gratifying notice of "Kai Lung" in the "Christian Sc...
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An extraordinary collection of mounted signatures of Members of the House of Commons and Peers covering the Liberal governments of Lord Palmerston, Gladstone and the transition to Disraeli's second ad...
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![Cal Arts [Colour Offset Lithograph]](/img/products/calartscolourof197293720-thumb.jpg) |
1195mmx293mm Original poster from the archive of April Greiman as seen in the V&A exhibition Postmodernism, Style and Subversion (2011). According to the V&A catalogue description 'Though it m...
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ff 245; 535 photographs. Massive folio journal recording the evangelical 'Beach Missions' and indefatigable preaching to poor children of George and Montgomery Goodman who were members of the Children...
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[pp] 36 & blanks. Manuscript record of 'clinical cases' at New York's Bellevue Hospital kept by a young doctor apparently specialising in obstetrics and women's health that includes a detailed acc...
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pp 350 + blanks. Business and personal diary of a captain of industry, the Sunderland shipbuilder and proprietor of Bartram and Sons. Bartram has used a pre-printed 'T and J Smith's Post Quarto On...
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(50x80cm) A theatre poster printed in red and black for Emlyn Williams' one man show based on the works of Charles Dickens, performed at Harrogate Theatre in 1975. Although now a well established form...
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Photo Album from the early 1950s probably compiled by a young footballer who played with several east London teams including Epping Town, Leytonstone and Southend Football Club. The silver gelatin pho...
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(18.5x25.5cm) 1909 flyer advertising football kit from a Derbyshire sports retailer, Thomas Hadfield, of Glossop. Printed on both sides the broadside promises 'the Largest Stock in the Borough of all ...
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Four Cornish sketchbooks by Charles Arthur Hannaford, son of the watercolourist Charles Edward Hannaford. Book I: Small quarto 'Fowey' sketchbook, c [pp] 100;'Charles A Hannaford. Fowey/ Cornwall'...
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From the governor's residence in Gibraltar, a manuscript record of British colonial officials, staff, naval and army officers in the Crown Colony which was used by the Governor's household as a social...
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A lifetime's financial records of the third member of the Gladstone family to own Fasque House in Aberdeenshire. Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire and the third Baronet, Sir John Robert Gladstone wa...
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[4] 'Dutch turnip', 'Windsor Beans' and 'Negro dwarf kidney beans': a bill from a London nursery - 'Seedsman' - for supplying vegetable seeds to the lawyer John Thomas Batt to be planted at his countr...
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(10.5x6.5cm) Souvenir photograph of 'Miss Jennie Worgen The Midget Housewife. 19 Years of Age. 25 inches in height. Permanent Photograph.' The albumen photograph is mounted on card; slight abrasion to...
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(24x14cm) Gouache given by the artist to the creator of Captain Pugwash, John Ryan. Inscribed along the tail of the image in pencil: ‘for John [Ryan] from Steven (Appleby) 1993’. Executed...
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![Imperial Caesar [Original Dustjacket Artwork]](/img/products/imperialcaesaro186021850-thumb.jpg) |
(18x21cm) Original dustjacket artwork in gouache on thick art paper. Overleaf the publisher Collins's print instructions, dated 16 March 1960 noting 'Add to bottom only to give 8 3/8 65 Proofs in Colo...
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pp 76 Illustrated Grand Tour journal written by the illegitimate son of the reigning British monarch, William IV, which includes a near-death experience in a carriage crash and an escorted tour around...
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![Lett’s Game Register [Manuscript & Photos]](/img/products/lettsgameregist232245306-thumb.jpg) |
The Fleetwood-Hesketh family game book from Meols Hall in Southport containing fifteen years of hunting records from 1883-1898. Elegant oblong folio in green pebbled cloth with gilt lettering; mar...
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Voluminous letter-book of a man described by his friend Hester Piozzi as 'a fine showy fellow, tall and stout' - a judgement amply justified by this collection of breathless correspondence with everyo...
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![Liber Amicorum [of Edwin Lutyens' Grandmother]](/img/products/liberamicorumof169793913-thumb.jpg) |
(255x195mm) Friendship album compiled by the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens' grandmother in the 1820s, mostly collected in Germany or featuring German ex-patriates in London. Handsome Parisian oblong...
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Three printed receipts, accomplished in manuscript, and signed by the Steward of Lincoln's Inn for collection of the Window Tax and other dues from the London lawyer, John Thomas Batt. The Steward, Th...
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A cache of documents and publications concealed by the Henchoz family in the eighteenth century in the attics of the Grand Chalet, Rossiniere, in the Vaudois Alps - a building thought to be the bigges...
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A thousand word, candid letter from Agnes Ethel Magruder, Arshile Gorky’s widow, whom he nicknamed Mougouch, laid into an exhibition catalogue of Gorky’s drawings. Over 3 pages Mougou...
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pp56 Original artwork together with a near fine copy of the Manchester University Union Rag magazine for 1941 in a fresh and bright cover designed by Geoffrey Bardsley who was also behind the 4 pieces...
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Folio-sized (35x22cm) manuscript gazeteer of Exeter compiled by 'A Godfery' in the summer of 1874. The manuscript lacks an external binding and the first four pages as well as several clumps of excise...
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The Victorian archivist Mary Anne Everett Green writes to the Society of Antiquaries about the discovery of a new document in the hand of Oliver Cromwell's wife Elizabeth Cromwell as 'I understand tha...
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[10 Vols] The meteorological archive of David Fellowes, a voluntary contributor to the Met Office based in Derbyshire. The archive is made up of ten pre printed volumes provided by the Met Office comp...
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pp 220. Folio-sized manuscript minute book of the Proprietors of Drummond Place Gardens in the New Town of Edinburgh. Under the terms of the Charter of 1823 the gardens are communally owned by the 120...
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ff 32 Bizarre typescript of 250 aphorisms such as 'What women get by weeps men get by whips' (228). Stylishly bound in brown and green morocco, scuffing to edges; large linocut bookplate of Josephina ...
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Remarkable archival collection of 99 drawings made on location by the Australian artist George Crossley during the filming of Tony Richardson's Ned Kelly feature film which starred Mick Jagger. The...
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2 silver gelatin photos (20x26cm) by Marc Atkins and eight cover-art proofs for Atkins' designs for the second paperback edition of Arturo Perez-Reverte's novels published by The Harvill Press. The fi...
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Large folio manuscript bound in illustrated boards with silk ties; calligraphic manuscript title page: 'Pan and Luna by Robert Browning illustrated by R. Wheatcroft' in black ink. The text which is lo...
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First World War Visitors Book recording Royal visits to the women munitions workers in the factories built on Park Royal, west London. Small quarto, expensively bound in pebbled black morocco with ...
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One hundred autograph letters, court documents and personal items from a convicted and prolific 1960s London 'back-street abortionist' who was sentenced to five years in gaol for 'unlawfully administe...
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[4] The official 4 page report on the Court Martial of Driver Thomas Keyton at Antwerp presided over and signed by both Brigadier General Hugh Halkett who would be in action a few months later at Wate...
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Grey cardboard folder containing correspondence between Teresa Collins and Ann Towns regarding the order of a handmade rug. With an original watercolour (16x22cm) on paper of a rug design entitled 'Be...
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(102x64cm) A British Railways Poster of Stratford upon Avon which promises to take the visitor to 'Shakespeare Country' and showing the scene around Holy Trinity Church in the town, presumably an imag...
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Original pen and ink portrait of the French writer Andre Maurois. Bentley has drawn the portrait on art paper with pencil underdrawing and pen and ink overdrawing and shading, two small tippexed co...
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A submission to the Coinage Commission Westminster's response to the currency crisis of the 1690s, written by an English merchant trying to persuade the government to limit the price of gold - the sol...
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[ff] 27. Manuscript phrenological analysis of 'Mr Ernest B Nixon' undertaken by a 'Graduate of the American Institute of Phrenology, Fowler Wells and Co., New York.' 'Professor Hatfield' has used his ...
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pp 97-136 The final section of 'George Cracknell's Commonplace Book', bound in quarter roan over marbled thin pasteboards, everything before page 97 now missing. Cracknell's ownership inscription appe...
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(390x590mm) A tribute to John Lennon created by one of the longest surviving members of the St Ives school following the ex-Beatle's murder in 1981. Executed on 'Hand Made' watermarked art paper, ...
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Hollywood Producer Elliott Kastner’s film production archive of three screenplays and correspondence relating to an unmade feature film from the late 1980s about a reborn mummy who wreaks havoc...
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![Tracts on the Proposed Regency [manuscript]](/img/products/tractsontheprop181405382-thumb.jpg) |
ff 100, c20,000 words Important manuscript produced for publication during the Regency crisis prompted by the 'madness of King George' III in the summer of 1788. 100 foolscap sized leaves, 'Britannia ...
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ROMANTIC VISUAL JOURNAL of a Welsh tour undertaken in the 1820s or 1830s. The collection comprises 24 pencil drawings from a sketching tour, 14 drawings by ‘M.R.’; 10 by ‘E.H.â€â...
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35cm. Striking portrait of William Caxton taking an impression from his printing press, the image mounted on hardboard with hanger to the verso. Presumed to be intended for pedagogical use and hung on...
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