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Eugene O Curry: Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History 1 Vol 1878

Toni Watts, Page from Lincoln Cathedral Manuscript (MS 307), 22ct gold and pigments on velum??, 12cm x 10cm.

Toni Watts, Lion, illuminated manuscript with gold ground, image size 10.5cm x 9cm.

An early 20th century English violin, the two-piece back 36cm long excluding button, paper label inscribed in ink manuscript E Maunder, Maker, Manchester, Sep 17 1924, No.38, rosewood tuning pegs, outlined throughout with purfling, 60.5cm long overall, the bow stamped Czechoslovakia, 69cm long, cased

Cookery in stately homes.- Cooking Receipts from various Country Places, manuscript in red and black ink, 41pp., including title and 2 index ff., some staining, lightly browned, attractive contemporary hand-decorated boards, lower board faded, 67 x 103mm., no place, [late 19th - early 20th century].  *** A charming small-format collection of recipes for sweet and savoury dishes, many of which from the kitchens of English stately homes, including Chatsworth, Longleat, Castle Howard, Holker Hall, and Burwood. Includes 'Guards' cake'; 'Medlar Jelly'; 'Berkeley pudding'; 'Rothsay Pudding'; 'Cherry Pudding'; 'Soufflé à la Parisienne'; 'Crême Brulée'; 'Brown Bread Cream'; 'Savoury Custards'; 'Petits pots de Gibier [Game]'; 'Eperlans [smelts] à l'Anglaise'; 'China China [mutton]'; 'Soufflé of artichokes'; and 'Sydney Smith's salad'. 

Railways.- Great Western Railway.- [Severn Tunnel Railway], 2-chain scale line survey in 2 parts, each a large detailed lithographic map in strip sections conjoined, with hand-colouring, several "Chief Engineers Office" ink stamps, browned and slightly soiled, dissected and mounted on linen, folding concertina-style into contemporary morocco covers, gilt, slightly rubbed, [c.1890s]; and c.15 other late nineteenth-century items relating to the Severn Tunnel railway and canal, including a manuscript cross-section of the tunnel, a book of reference, several contracts, reports and letters and other related ephemera, v.s. (c.20)

*** Please note the description of this lot has changed *** Victoria (Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India, Victoria, 1819-1901) & family.- Downey (W. & D., studio photographers, Ebury Street, London) A Collection of Photographs of Queen Victoria, her Immediate Family..., manuscript title, 124 portrait photographs, including: Queen Victoria, Edward VII, Queen Alexandra, Prince Albert Victor, George V, Queen Mary, Prince of Wales (future Edward VIII), Prince Albert (future George VI) etc., many signed in pencil "Downey", laid down on card, 3 other portrait photographs loosely inserted, some margins browned, original half morocco, rubbed, joints splitting, lower cover detached, gilt spine, dulled, photographs 235 x 165 & smaller, album large. 4to, 1911.

America (South Carolina) & Jamaica.- Saxby (George, of Howland Street, London) Last Will and Testament with printed probate, leaving "all my estates... in the Province or State of South Carolina... and in the island of Jamaica" to his wife Elizabeth , D.s., manuscript on vellum, 2 sheets (probate sheet with manuscript insertions), paper seal, folds, slightly yellowed, 330 x 380mm., 8th May 1786.

Pereyra (Abraham) Espejo de la Vanidad del Mundo, tears to title, laid down on paper, old manuscript notes to title verso now obscured, trimmed occasionally touching headlines, occasional ink marginal note, scattered spotting and staining, 2H4 & 4A4 with tiny hole affecting odd letter, 4B4 with large loss to bottom half affecting text, 4C4 with loss to bottom half not affecting text, laid down on paper, modern morocco, 4to, Amsterdam, Alexandro Ianse, 5431 [1671].

Ga'ez manuscript on vellum in red and black with occasional decoration, light browning and soiling, some holes and flaws to vellum some stitched repairs, occasional loss to text, original stitched wooden boards, a little rubbed, [?18th century] § Klebe (A.) Reise auf dem Rhein, vol. 1 only, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, scattered spotting, later boards, shelfmark label to spine foot, a little rubbed, Frankfurt, 1801; and others including some odd volumes, v.s., (18).

Railways.- A Portfolio of financial documents relating to British Railways and Canals, including debentures, stock certificates, mortgage deeds, and other ephemera, relating to Bristol & Exeter Railway Company, Great Western Railway, The Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway Company, Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, and others, several manuscript, many stamped, a few with tears and repairs, some lightly browned, v.d., v.s., nineteenth-century (c.35)

Vezin (Hermann).- [Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord)] Werner, or the Inheritance. A Tragedy, 14 vol., manuscript on paper in Vezin's hand, on blue paper, cracked hinges, ex-Nottingham library with blind-stamps, contemporary limp cloth, title in manuscript to upper covers, a little rubbed, 8vo, c. late-19th century. *** Hermann Vezin (1829-1910) was an American actor, writer and teacher. He left America for England in order to work as an actor, making his first appearance at the York Theatre Royal, before making his London debut at the Princess's Theatre in 1852. 

Airship Hindenberg.- Printed envelope sent via the "Hindenberg", ink manuscript note in German to upper corner, 3 postal stamps including one commemorating the Berlin Olympics, light toning to one edge, underlining in red crayon, c.125 x 160 mm., 1936.

Roxburghe Club.- Barker (Nicolas) The Great Book of Thomas Trevilian, 2 vol., vol.1 text and supplementary plates, vol.2 colour facsimile plates, original red buckram, leather spine labels, slip-cases, folio, Printed for Presentation to the Members of The Roxburghe Club, 2000.*** Superb reproduction and explanatory text of the manuscript in the Wormsley Library, presented by Sir Paul Getty to the members of the Roxburghe Club.

Breviary.- Two leaves from a Breviary, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, in a neat gothic bookhand, text in red and black ink, double column, 33 lines, 4-line initial "P" in blue and red with pen and ink marginal scrollwork in blue, numerous 2-line initials, ruled faintly, slightly yellowed, marked in margins, 208 x 148mm., [c. 1300]; and 2 other leaves from another Breviary, [c. 1300], v.s. (4 pieces).

Apuleius (Lucius, Madaurensis) Philosophi platonici quae quidem extare novimvus monimenta, 2 vol., ?half-title to vol. 2, occasional manuscript markings and notes to margins, most in red pencil and a few in ink, woodcut device to final leaf verso,  [Adams A1363], Basel, Heinrich aus Basel Petri, 1533, bound with ?a partial work by the same, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, edges stained in red, 12mo. *** Provenance: Christopher Wordsworth (1807-85), presumably the Romantic William Wordsworth's  younger brother, scholar and Bishop of Lincoln [engraved bookplate]. 

Torture of Christian martyrs.- Gallonio (Antonio) De SS. Martyrdum Cruciatibus ... liber quo potissimum instrumenta, & modi, quibus ijdem Christi martyres olim torquebantur, title with woodcut printer's device, full-page illustrations, ex 'The Priory, Storrington' with occasional ink-stamps, faint water-staining, scattered faint spotting, Q1 with marginal ink note, 2D3 with marginal paper defect, 2F2 with marginal tear and old repair, 1-end with tiny worming at gutter, not affecting text, previous owner's pencil inscription to front pastedown, cracked hinges, near contemporary limp vellum, title in manuscript to spine, lacking ties, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, Rome, ex Typographia Congregationis Oratorij apud S. Mariam in Vallicella [A. Zannetus], 1594. *** On the various methods of torture undergone by the early Christian martyrs.

Glasgow, Exhibition of Portraits, 1868.  Manuscript transcription of Notes on the Portraits by John Buchanan. 71pp. Well written with biogs. & comments on the sitters, & index. Gilt lettered cloth. "Valuable as affording intimate particulars concerning many old time citizens derived from personal knowledge and acquaintance".

GLASGOW.  GOURLAY ROBERT (Banker - 1840-1916) & GOURLAY JAMES (Son of Robert, historian, director of Glasgow Herald, Bank of Scotland etc. 1869-1952). An archive of manuscript journals, research material, cuttings, ephemera etc. Letter book of Robert Gourlay & three student journals etc. (incl. Logic Class under Prof. Buchanan, 1858-59). 3 notebooks of James Gourlay with masses of genealogical & historical information & 3 scrapbooks (2 part filled only) with many press cuttings, other ephemera & letters (2 pp. typescript letter from the London office of the Herald re Blitz conditions), a few photographs (3 large photos of Glasgow excavations, 1930s) etc. Also an 1830`s manuscript commonplace book in an unknown hand.

Detailed manuscript letter, 1818 from W. Herbert, Temple, May 12th, to W. H. Darby, Addiscombe.  Commences with an account of an unconventional and unsuccessful medical treatment using mercury, then comments on Goldsmith & "do you remember a man at University College called Shelley" who had just sent Herbert "a curious poem of his call`d The Revolt of Islam".  This poem was published in this year, 1818, and the letter goes on to quote from it with extensive comment and criticism, "the poem tedious from its length, but the language and metre, in my judgment, excellent". Concludes with a final long paragraph, "the Quakers of Massachussets suffer`d more for broadbrimm`d hats than ever St Paul did to establish religion" and much more. "P.S. You had better come to town and eat turtle fish which is just coming into season". With a 3pp typsecript transcript.

MOFFAT ROBERT MAXWELL.  A Short History of the Family of Moffat of That Ilk. Frontis, subscribers list, col. coats of arms & fldg. pedigree. Interleaves with some manuscript annotations & a tipped in letter. Quarto. Orig. red cloth. Jersey, 1908.

MACLEHOSE JAMES (Pubs).  The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry. Lacking the photographic plates but an historian's copy (John Oswald Mitchell & Gourlay family) with interleaves throughout containing detailed ink manuscript annotations, press cuttings & some tipped in ephemera & pedigrees. Quarto. Worn cond., early leaves det. but present. Glasgow, 1878; also The Regality Club, 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Series, each John Oswald Mitchell's copy with notes, slipped in cuttings, letters & ephemera to supplement the many etched & other plates & vignettes of old Glasgow buildings, quarto, rubbed qtr. maroon morocco, Glasgow, 1889 - 1912.  (5).

FOLIO SOCIETY. The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript.  Ltd. ed. 264/980. Col. facsimile on stiff leaves throughout. Blue goatskin gilt. 2015; in solander box with original packaging with the accompanying volume, Parallel Text & Notes, by Andrew & Waldron.

DOCUMENTS & LETTERS, South West Scotland..  A carton of legal documents, letters & notes, incl. manuscript of Store Farm of Drumwhim for sale, documents re. Kirkpatrick & Welsh families, Arkland Estate, & much else, Galloway area, etc.

KING CHARLES THE FIRST.  The Kings Cabinet Opened or Certain Packets of Secret Letters & Papers Written with the Kings Own Hand & Taken in His Cabinet at Nasby-Field ... by Victorious Sr. Thomas Fairfax. 56pp. Pasted eng. oval port. of Fairfax as a frontis. Manuscript annotations which have been cropped on bdg. Robert Bostock, 1645; bound in blue half leather (Royal Institution) with A Key to the Kings Cabinet ... Detecting the Malice & Falsehood of Their Blasphemous Observations Made Upon the King & Queene's Letters, 53pp, Oxford, 1645.

GOURLAY JAMES.  The Kennedys of Auchtyfardle & Other Papers. 7 near new copies. Fldg. pedigree. Orig. cloth backed brds. One copy with supplementary manuscript notes. 1936; also James Gourlay, John Mennons, An Early Glasgow Journalist, 27 copies in card wrappers.

MANUSCRIPT LETTERS. Another remarkable collection, better presented in a folder this time and often pre-penny post dating back to 18th century. Many in envelopes of the time. Clear Scottish interest in part. Many wax-sealed. Some attempting to claim outstanding debts etc.

MANUSCRIPT LETTERS, John LEECH, CARICATURIST and ARTIST. Three letters to Mrs HEARN, c. 1859 with penny reds.

BINDINGS etc. POETRY. MILTON, 'Paradise Lost', 1770 ed. Also, 'Milton's Comus The Bridgwater Manuscript', Dent, 1910. And 'Minor Poems' (Norman Douglas Replica, 1920). Also, JOHNSON, 'Poetical Works' complete in one vol. a new ed., 1785. And 'Poems of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey', London, 1777. And others.

MANUSCRIPT LETTERS. An extensive collection of MS letters and some envelopes. To inc. for e.g., John BURGON, writer and Dean of Chichester (as in 'Rose red city half as old as time'). The Earl de la WARR (Reginald SACKVILLE); HRH the Duke oif Cambridge, 1st cousin of Queen Victoria to Dr. Jacob dated 1857 ('57) signed 'George' (1819-1904, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army. Commanded the 1st Div. in the Crimea at Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman. Statue in Whitehall). With remains of Penny Red to envelope. And, part (inc. signature) letter from Princess Charlotte - the only legit. child of George IV and Caroline of Brunswick, who died in childbirth. The heir(ess) to the crown. Her death prompted a succession crisis. Also, William Wellington Cairns, Gov. of Queensland. Many others from clergymen, deans (esp. related to Chichester. Inc. Samuel Wilberforce ('Soapy Sam') who opposed Darwin. Also letters from Charles Thos. LONGLEY, Arch. of Canterbury to Wilberforce (Bishop of Oxford at the time), 1865. A letter from Randall Davidson, the longest serving Arch. of Canterbury. Also Edward TALBOT, Earl of Shrewsbury ('W. Gladstone has not replied') with others in red penny envelopes. Often the recepient is Rev Carey BORRER (1814-1888), clergyman. One from Gladstones's parlimentarian son ('W.H'.Gladstone) to E.C.LOWE, English educator. And from Gathorne HARDY Sec. of State for War and later Chancellor. And George WARD HUNT, also Chancellor etc. And Viscount HALIFAX. And Alexander BERESFORD HOPE who argued against anti-slavery. Also Lord Chancellor HATHERLEY. And John KITTO, Florence MONTGOMERY, Cardinal MANNING, The Duke of MARLBOROUGH and others. A remarkable accumulation.

The Winchester Psalter Miniature Cycle, Folio Society manuscript facsimile - colour illustrations, original red Indian goatskin with blocked design by Joe McLaren, accompanying commentary vol. by Kristine Edmondson Haney in original cloth, together in original cloth drop-back box, folio, limited edition 654/980, Folio Society, 2015

The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. ‘Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience', 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x., published 2015, colour facsimile manuscript, original navy blue goat skin bound by Gorenjski tisk storitve, Kranj, Slovenia, gilt title to upper board & spine blocked from a design by Stephen Raw, together with commentary volume edited by Malcolm Andrew & Ronald Waldron, original navy blue buckram gilt, 4to, contained together in original solander box Limited edition 14/980

Bessie J. Spiers (English, 19th Century). The Millpool, Abinger Hammer, Surrey, 1882, and On the Hillside, Derbyshire, 1885, signed with initials l.l., a pair of small watercolour sketches, 12 x 5cm, framed & glazed as one with manuscript title label verso. Together with a foxhunting scene, and a river landscape, signed K. A. Ward l.r., 20th Century, watercolours, 35 x 52cm, framed & glazed (3)

A.A.Milne - (1882-1956 - Author - Winnie the Pooh) - The original manuscript draft in ink for “The Very Young Calendar 1930”, title and twelve pages of text on folded card.

AMENDED DESCRIPTION - A.A.Milne - (1882-1956 - Author - Winnie the Pooh) - The original manuscript of “The Wind on the Hill” circa 1927 from “Now We Are Six”, on Cotchford Farm headed paper, 8vo.

A.A.Milne - (1882-1956 - Author - Winnie the Pooh) - The original manuscript introduction in ink to “The Christopher Robin Birthday Book” circa 1930, signed with initials, two pages 4to., together with six trial printings of the half title, title and four pages. (qty)

A.A.Milne (1882-1956 - Author - Winnie the Pooh) - Six original manuscript text drafts in pencil for Christmas Cards circa 1930 from Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet, and “H’lump, folded sheets of card. (6)

A.A.Milne - (1882-1956 - Author - Winnie the Pooh) - A page of manuscript correction notes in ink for “Now We Are Six” circa 1927, concerning the placement of the verses “The following should come in the first third of the book, and in this order Solitude, Busy, Binker, In the Dark, Buttercup Days, Come out with Me…”, one side 4to.

A.A.Milne - (1882-1956 - Author - Winnie the Pooh) - Two autographed letters signed with initials to Muller on Mallord Street and Cotchford Farm headed notepaper, “Yes King Hilary will be in the useful book, of course.”, together with second simply annotated “Back in London again", both stamped 'Received and Answered 25th March', and 'Received and Answered May 1927', together with the original draft manuscript for “Preface for Parents” circa 1932, in ink with corrections for the introduction to “The Christopher Robin Verses”, five pages 8vo. (7)

A.A.Milne - (1882-1956 - Author - Winnie the Pooh) - The original draft manuscript in ink for “The Christopher Robin Birthday Book” circa 1928 with rough sketches of Christopher Robin, skipping lambs, cold Pooh and Piglet, boy with umbrella, Knight in Armour, sm.4to, booklet six pages.

A.A.Milne - (1882-1956 - Author - Winnie the Pooh) - The original manuscript introduction in ink to ‘Now We Are Six’ signed with initials, one page 4to, together with the ‘Dedication’ to Anne Darlington, capitals in pencil to one side, on Mallord Street headed paper.

Poetry. 1834 Poems on Various Subjects written by James Cargill. Manuscript, hand written calligraphic text. Bound with 1857 Poems on Various Subjects by the same, also handwritten. Decorative headers & title page. Full red crushed morocco, heavily gilt borders & decoration to boards and spine, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Ownership bookplate of John Borthwick Esq. to front pastedown. One ink stain to front board, lightest edgewear to extremities, otherwise a splendid early 19th century calligraphic manuscript collection of poetry by Cargill, a Scottish poet and teacher. 16mo.

British history. 1724-1734 Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time. Vol I. from the Restoration of King Charles II to the Settlement of King William and Queen Mary at the Revolution. Printed for Thomas Ward, 1724. Vol II. From the Revolution to the Conclusion of the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht, in the Reign of Queen Anne. To which is added the Author's Life, by the editor. Printed for the Editor by Joseph Downing, 1734. Two volumes, bound in full reverse calf, orig. morocco labels with gilt lettering to spines, blind tooled boards, vol I. with loss and damge to front board, particularly the upper corner, extremities bumped, speckled red edges, clean internally with light offsetting to title pages & some damp staining to final leaves of vol II. Contemp. inscription to verso of title page of vol II reads The Original Manuscript of Both Volumes of this History will be deposited in the Cotton Library by J. Burnett. Folio.

English School (19th century) Portrait of a Victorian Lady unsigned, manuscript to verso, dated ‘66, gouache on canvas, 90cm x 69cm

[Local Interest] Nellie Shaw Whiteway A Colony On The Cotswolds with a facsimile letter from H.G. Wells, published The C.W. Daniel Company 1935, first edition in hardback with original illustrated dust-wrapper, the facsimile letter which is to the author from H.G. Wells acknowledges receipt of the proof manuscript and he suggests the title of the book should be called simply 'The Story Of The Whiteway Colony' [The colony was founded at the end of the 19th century when a group of individuals decided to create a land colony based on the principles of Tolstoy]

ROGER FRY (BRITISH 1866–1934) THE DANCERS, c.1910 oil on board 71cm x 56cm (28in x 22in) Lady Ottoline Morrell;Christie's New York, 1987;Sandra Lummis Fine Art, London, from whom acquired by Bernard Kelly in November 1987. Roger Fry’s Dancers encapsulates both the artistic vision of the Bloomsbury Group and something too of their real-world attitudes to life, love and sex that set them so apart from most of Edwardian England. This painting is steeped in Bloomsbury influences. There’s a certain Medievalism in its composition, like an illumination in a manuscript, that recalls William Morris, yet a louche sensibility and abstraction in its execution that is pure Post-Impressionism. And it was Fry, after all, who had just brought Modern French painting to London, to shocking effect, in the same year that this work was painted. He may well have known about Matisse’s The Dancers, painted for the Russian collector Sergei Schukin in 1909, with its similar circle of Bacchante, but Fry’s work speaks equally to Cezanne’s painting of bathers, or Gauguin’s Tahitian fantasies – albeit seemingly set  in garden at Garsington Manor, home of society hostess Lady Ottoline Morrell, where all the bright young things of Bloomsbury would gather at weekend, both to dress up and (later) take off their clothes. Indeed, one could easily imagine Fry turning this image into a fire-screen or cabinet door for his Omega Workshops, which he had set up precisely to blur the boundaries between art and life for this new generation of modernists and libertines, in that glorious – but short-lived – moment before the coming of the Great War.

Attributed to Thomas Faed RSA(1826-1900)Samuel and Eli,attributed verso, oil on panel,13.5 x 20.5cms, in frame.Notes:Indistinct manuscript pen and ink inscription verso "To Harry [?] Richardson [?], from his grandfather, June 12th 1870 [?]"

A BRASS SPOON MEASURE OR LADLE17TH CENTURYthe near hemispherical bowl on a tapering handle with punch decoration, hatched grip and rounded terminal29.8cm longLiteratureA similar shaped spoon illustrated in a 14th century manuscript is reproduced J. Seymour Lindsay, 'Iron & Brass Implements of the English House' (1970) p.26

Arabic manuscript on paper in scroll form, written in black Ghubar script of the whole Quran, the headpiece with gold and royal blue decoration enclosing surah Al-Fatiha in naskh script. 7 by 220 cm.

Three silver hollow cylindrical tube talisman containers, two engraved with floral motifs. The large one engraved with surah al-Kursi / verse of the throne.Length: 6.5- 9 cmThe talisman container has a miniature paper scroll containing a combination of prayers. The wearers protective amulet or manuscript are meant to have magical powers to protect the owner with an elaborate invocation asking God to protect the bearer of the amulet.

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 217 leaves with 3 fly-leaves, 19 lines to the page written in minute naskhi script in black ink with a black and gilt border, one illuminated double-page frontispiece in colors and gold containing two miniature of Al-Masjid al-Haram and Al-Masjid Al-Nabawi , a second double-page with striking blue and gilt decoration framing 7 lines, surah headings in red, some water-staining mostly restricted to outer margins, dark brown binding with covers painted with floral sprays in gold, leather outer case. Manuscript: 5.5 by 5.5 cm. Case: 7.8 by 7.8 cm.

North European School, 18th c - A Menagerie of Exotic and Domestic Birds, including parrots, an owl, a jay, and waterfowl, a pair, oil on canvases, 31 x 23.5cm  Provenance: Arthur Morton Grenfell (1873-1958); until sold by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods:~ Catalogue of Important Pictures by Old Masters and Works of the Early English School The Property of Arthur Grenfell, Esq [...], June 26, 1914, lot 30 - then attributed to SHUTZ, £31-10-0 to Butler; manuscript labels and pasted catalogue entries to verso. Lined, with signs of former cleaning and overpaint. Their gilt gesso and softwood frames restored and with refreshed gilding.

A South European antiphonal leaf, probably Spanish, 15th or first-half 16th c, manuscript on vellum, blank ink and rubrication, with traces of an illuminated initial, musical notation, 50 x 30.5cm Generally good condition. Recto initial with traces of now worn illumination as catalogued. Unexamined out of frame; the frame itself with some light wear.

A French brass carriage clock, late 19th c, with platform escapement to the gong-striking movement, Roman and subsidiary Arabic numerals, 17cm h over handle, contemporary diced calf and fitted travelling case Serviced within the last 50 years, as evidenced by manuscript note. Movements appears clean. The enamel dial repainted.

Antique Ceramic Collecting; Photographically-Illustrated. A Catalogue of Porcelain & Pottery, Oriental, European, & English, The Property of The Rev. R. Waldo Sibthorp, of Nottingham. With Photographic Illustrations, dedicated and inscribed family presentation copy, first and only edition, Nottingham: [Privately printed by] T. Forman and Sons, 1874, black-ruled title-page, complete: 55pp (items 1-740), with contemporary ink manuscript additions to the lower margin and the whole verso of the last leaf (items 741-761), the collection illustrated by 60 mounted albumen prints as called for, photographed by John Clayson of Nottingham, their outline occasionally off-setting, some light marginal marks in places, some leaves' edges very lightly nibbled, verso inner-gutters of leaves reinforced with archive tape, but discreet, original publisher's clott gilt, worn, top of spine with split section and chip, but without major loss, bowed and bumped, 8vo  Provenance: Henry A. M. Waldo Sibthorp. A memento of his affectionate uncle, Richard Waldo Sibthorpe, January, 1875; verso of ffep with contemporary manuscript presentation inscription. Principally the collection of Richard Waldo Sibthorp (1792–1879), Church of England clergyman and Roman Catholic convert, but added to by various members of the Sibthorp family of Canwick Hall, Lincolnshire. On Richard's death the collection passed to his nephew Coningsby Charles Sibthorp (1846-1932) and later to be sold for charity in an anonymously at Christie's on 2nd March 1877.

A late Victorian manuscript poem, late 19th c, black ink on paper, illuminated with calligraphy, a foliate initial and scrolling rose branches, seven stanzas of presumably original composition, crow 'colophon' scrivened within a clutched scroll: Ye Absurd Burd (sic) Hath Done This Work, 17.5 x 27.5cm, Hogarth-type frame Generally good condition. Poem sheet with some foxed spots. Each unexamined out of their frames.

New South Wales interest. An original manuscript Promissory note dated 1867, between two early settlers of the South Coast of New South Wales, the Drawee was the son of Michael Hindmash who was the first settler at Gerringong south of Kiama, mounted with another manuscript document and information relating to the promissory note, total size 31cm x 40cm approx.

Manuscript draft of Mr. Lonely, handwritten by Eric Morecambe, [first published 1981], together with a typescript version, and a modern paperback of the same ❧ This is from Eric Morecambe’s private study at his home in Harpenden

Manuscript Jokes. Memo book with Eric Morecambe's handwritten ideas for jokes, 1950s; an exercise book with ideas for gags at front & back; a notebook two-thirds filled with handwritten ideas for jokes; an exercise book half-filled with joke ideas; a reporter's notepad half-filled with ideas for sketches & gags; a reporter's notebook with joke ideas at front & back; a BBC notepad with joke ideas on the cover and first few leaves (7) ❧ This is from Eric Morecambe’s private study at his home in Harpenden

Manuscript Ideas. Television sketch ideas, handwritten by Eric Morecambe on various sheets of lined notepaper, including ideas for jokes & props, rough drafts & prompt cards for speeches, several sheets typed by Eric, and a partially-filled notepad with ideas for gags. To include typescripts for Opening Sketch of Morecambe & Wise Show 6, and Friendly Letter Service ❧ This is from Eric Morecambe’s private study at his home in Harpenden