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A manuscript letter from Agatha Christie to Mrs Elliot on Winterbrook House notepaper,one sheet, dated 'July 19th', together with envelope postmarked 'Wallingford Berks 20 July 1968'."Dear Jane / Very nice to know you are with us at Greenway. I really didn't have much time when I saw Mrs Hicks last week in Oxford as we were in the middle of a party! But I gather she's made all arrangements with you - I start taking over, that on Monday 22nd - Peter will arrive there on Monday & John on Tuesday as far as I know - Peter is here with us now and we have been two days at Stratford - / We have still to clear out of the London flat & get finally transferred to the *** Mews house and arrange for some furniture to go down to Devon - I can't do very much at a time since I have been ill - We hope to be at Greenway at least a month from August 12th. Mr & Mrs Cecil Mallowan get back from Persia on 14th & 15th August. I'll get Mr Hicks to settle up with you, each week until I get down - Looking forward to seeing you very much / yours A. Mallowan"., formerly from Agatha Christie’s home, Greenway House, DevonPLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail. 

A manuscript letter from Agatha Christie to Mrs Elliot on Winterbrook House notepaper,two headed sheets, dated July 4th, together with an envelope postmarked 'London 4 July 1962'."Dear Mrs Elliot / I believe Mrs Guggs is away on holiday, but last time she spoke to me on the telephone she seemed to think that all was more or less fixed for Summer - I would like to hear from you what you feel would be a good arrangement and how much you would be prepared to do and what way would be best for you - / Can you all manage if we have you, Mrs Budd & Mrs Hoad - and Mrs Guggs doing early teas and perhaps breakfast - I would really like you to arrange between yourselves what would suit you all? / I have an idea that if you had Friday evening off altogether, & perhaps 2 evenings a week definitely cold supper - & hot dinner on the other nights? / If on the nights you cook a hot meal Mrs Hoad would come and wash up - or if she is willing to wash up most evenings, that would mean that you could get away earlier - If you know of someone, a friend, I'm quite willing to pay someone extra - / As far as I know - we shall probably come down about July 28th or thereabouts - Mrs & Mrs Hicks & Mathew will be there, & possibly friends of Mathew's. Mr Mallowan will not be down at all - & I shall go to and from Wallingford - We go to Greenway for last 2 weeks in August - but I suspect Mr & Mrs Hicks will still be there - Beginning of September *** *** * I and Mr Mallowan & the Mallowan boys will be there as usual. / Hope you ae well & give my love to Nicola and Cherry / Yours Agatha Mallowan"., formerly from Agatha Christie’s home, Greenway House, DevonPLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail. 

The album for the 2/6d Wilding booklets intact save the mis-cut F1 example (Lot 64), starting with wonderful tête-bêche proofs of the front cover in dull green "minimum foreign letter rate 4d" and emerald green "post early in the day" (both unlisted), plus advertiser voucher copy examples including F17 with printed label pane, then an extensive run of main issues incl. F5 (excellent perfs) and F6 (good perfs), F15 (March '54, manuscript date on front), also an F27 booklet with stamps removed except for the ½d orange pane showing double comb of perforations on upper row (necessary reinforcements of two small hinges slightly discoloured) unusual and scarce. Cat. well over £3,500.

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, DBE (1907 ? 1989) - ink manuscript autograph, on a bookplate designed by Rex Whistler (1904-1944), for the first edition of "Rebecca", The Book Society, Ex Libris, lithograph, 14cm x 8.5cm, mounted, [1]

Miscellaneous - Ashmore (Marion) & Aldin (Cecil, illustrator), Lost, Stolen, or Strayed: The Adventures of an Aberdeen Terrier, first edition, second impression, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, October, 1931, pictorial dustjacket, red cloth, 8vo, (1); Circus, nine Bertram Mills Circus programmes, Olympia, London, mostly late 1940s/1950s, original wrappers, (9); Nixon (Mima), Royal Palaces & Gardens, London: A. & C. Black, 1916, tipped-in colour plates, pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Memento Mori, No. 5, Selected Designs of Marble Memorials, [n.d., c. 1920], b/w illustrations, red cloth, small folio, (1); Ephemera, a 20th century diorama, Tim's Telescopic View of Her Majesty's Coronation, 1952/To Celebrate the Silver Jubilee, 1977, original pictorial sleeve, (1); two late Victorian/Edwardian scrapbooks, various, (2); 1958 Radio Times scrapbook, (1); Ship's Log Book, two civilian sailor's summer holiday manuscript journals, 1960 & 1962, (2); two schoolboy stamp albums, barely-filled, GB and Commonwealth, but including one Victorian penny red stamp, (2), [22]

Monckton Milnes (Richard, Lord Houghton) & Stovin Venables (George, Q.C.) Some Writings and Speeches [...] in the Last Year of His Life, with a Notice in Memoriam, presentation memorial copy, first and only edition, London: Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1888, contemporary vellum gilt, the upper-cover blocked in gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, [1] Provenance: 'This memorial of a friend is presented to George Armytage Esqr by Lord Houghton's sister Dow:r Lady Galway/August 1888', ink manuscript presentation inscription to front-free endpaper; George John Armytage, F.S.A, his Golden Age armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.

Music - ?Unrecorded, Cox (John), The Lincolnshire Harmony [...], Engrav'd & Printed by the Author at Langtoft, near Bourn (sic), Lincolnshire, [n.d., c. 1770], only 3pp of copper-printing, the rest ?supplied in contemporary ink MS with contents and musical notation: [ii], 126ff, contemporary calf over boards, title-page recto with contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription: William Cragg, His Book, January, 27, 1788/Thurlby, oblong 4to, (1); Provincial Leicestershire Imprint, The Second Book of the Voice of Melody, Being a Collection of the Most Curious Psalm-Tunes Extant, in Four Parts; with Variety of Hymns and Anthems [...], second edition, Waltham, Leicestershire: Collected, Printed, and Sold by William East, Grantham: Mr Whiteman Stationer, 1750, copperplate-printed, engraved title-page, incomplete but complimented and bound with further scores in contemporaneous ink manuscript, contemporary panelled calf (faults and losses), slightly later rebacked with a tacked-on strip, the upper-cover blocked in gilt: In Butler (John Butler repeated in MS on the title-page), oblong 4to, (1); Handel (George Frideric), Redemption: A Sacred Oratorio [...], London: Printed for Rt. Birchall at his Musical Circulating Library, [n.d., 1814], defective title-page, prelims and the first few pages, some marginal repairs in places throughout the score, contemporary calf (faults), folio, (1); a Regency and later sammelband of sheet music, gilt-tooled leather over marbled boards, folio, (1); etc., [8]

Natural History, Botany & the Enlightenment - Bradley (Richard, Late Fellow of the Royal Society), The History of Succulent Plants: Containing, The Aloes, Ficoids (or Fig-Marygolds (sic)) Torch-Thistles, Melon-Thistles, and such others as are capable of an Hortus Siccus/Engraved, from the Originals, on Copper-Plates/With their Descriptions, and Manner of Culture, five-parts in one volume, second edition, London: Printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass, on London-Bridge, 1739, each of the five parts with separate title-pages printed in English on both sides, the text printed in double-columns in parallel English and Latin, decorative woodcut initials, head- & tailpieces, complete: pp: [2] (blank), [vi], 11, [1] (advert); [2], 11, [1] (advert); [2],12, [2] (binder's direction & blank); [2],18,[2] (binder's direction & blank); [2], 7-18, [3] (binder's direction and blanks); illustrated with 50 botanical engravings by Henry Hulsbergh (d. 1729), John Stuart (1658-1730) and others. (Numbered 1-50, no. 26 and 27 on one page, one plate folding), contemporary speckled calf, the covers gilt-ruled with a double-fillet, graduating six-compartment spine of raised bands tooled in gilt with foliate bosses, red-speckled edges, 4to (23cm x 17.5cm), [Henrey 492; ESTC N17833], [1]A rare variant of a rare work. According to Staflen (TL2 699) the second edition has a new title-page (as here), but usually omits the separate part-titles - which are still present in this copy. Only three UK institutional locations found (Chetham's Library, Royal Horticultural Society Library & Edinburgh University Library). Provenance: 1st) Fred: ?B, contemporary ink manuscript ownership inscription; 2nd) Rob. Bliss Oxon 1825/0.3.0, ink manuscript inscription. There are two Robert Blisses recorded in Oxford at the time: one a bookseller with a circulating library, the other Bailiff of the University; could they be the same man?

Poetry - The Romantics - The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats/Complete in One Volume, Paris: Published by A. and W. Galignani, 1829, engraved portrait frontispiece, black-ruled and printed in double-columns, contemporary boards, front-free endpaper inscribed in ink manuscript with scholarly notes on Coleridge's oeuvre - including some passages in Greek, 8vo, (1); leather bindings, 18th century and later, including a prayer book; The Youth's History of Scotland [...], London: Thomas Holmes, [n.d., c. 1860], blue cloth, 8vo, (1), [5] Provenance: 1st: G. H. Chandler/A Paris/June 11 1835, contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription to front-free endpapers, presumably the same hand as the marginalia/notations.

Royalty - Queen Mary of Teck (1867-1953), Annotated By and Later Presented By George V's Consort, Cust (Sir Lionel, KCVO, FSA), Windsor Castle: Portrait Miniatures, "for confidential reference only", first and only edition, London: Harrison and Sons, 1910, 119pp, verso with 6pp of tipped-in dialogue between Queen Mary and her maternal aunt Princess Augusta, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Sterlitz (1822-1916) viz. the identity of the sitters in the Duke of Cumberland's portrait miniatures, now in the Royal Collection, (presumably accompanied by photographs when sent, now absent), each question and accompanying answer is inscribed in ink manuscript on Buckingham Palace writing-paper, and later annotated in pencil by a separate hand, original silk over boards, the upper-cover stamped and lettered in gilt, all-edges gilt, 4to, (1); un-associated and un-inscribed volume, Bunt (Cyril G.E.), Windsor Castle: The Fairhaven Collection, copy number 78 from a limited edition of 500, Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1949, blue cloth, 4to, (1), [2]Provenance: 1st: Presented by Queen Mary of Teck (1867-1953), via Lady Mary Trefusis (née Lygon; 1869-1927), one of the queen's Ladies-In-Waiting, to George Charles Williamson (1858-1942), of Burgh House, Hampstead, London, the art historian and portrait miniature expert; the recto pastedown with his book label, the flyleaf inscribed in MS pencil: "Given to me by Her Majesty The Queen/July 28. 1912" and with a tipped-in 5pp ink MS letter from Lady Mary, on Buckingham Palace writing-paper, inscribed and dated July 28 1912. Commanded to write on the Queen's behalf, Lady Mary thanks Williamson for his assistance (& photographs) in Queen Mary's efforts to codify the Royal Collection's portrait miniatures, and asks for another copy of a photograph so she can ask the Grand Duke of Hesse or Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse; she presents this book, "The Queen is sending you (to keep) a copy of the list of the portrait miniatures at Windsor Castle - it is of course for Confidential reference only." The letter goes on to say that "[t]he Queen would be deeply interested to have a set of photographs of the miniatures belonging to the Duchess of ?Northumberland", presumably for kleptomaniacal purposes.

Austen (Jane) & Seed (F.J., of Sheffield), Sanditon: A Novel, Commenced [...] in January 1817 and abandoned owing to her mortal illness in March 1817/Resumed and completed January-April 1854, a remarkable manuscript of the imagination, probably unique, pp: [iv], 163pp of hand-typed MS, clipped and pasted-in, Austen's last words are on page 41 of Chapter XII: "occupied by Sir Harry Denham.", contemporary red cloth, 4to, [1]

War & Peace - [Grotius (Hugo)], Hugnois Grotii De Jure Belli ac Pacis [...], two-volume set, [Turin?, Naples?]: [s.n.], 1719, armllery spehere printer's device, title-pages printed in red and black, contemporary Italian vellum, manuscript lettered spines, speckled edges, 4to, [2] Provenance: Esme Nicoll, Egland, Honiton, [Devon]; her 20th century book labels to each pastedown.

A collection of 17th century and later ephemera, works on paper, and prints, including Local Interest, Politics & Satire and Law & Order- Nottingham & the 1865 General Election, The Electioneering Times: Of Fun and Humour on the Forthcoming Election, No. 1, Saturday, July 8th, 1865, Nottingham: Printed at the "Electioneering Times Office", comically illustrated with a naïve woodcut of satirical cartoon-caricatures, 4to, (1); All Round The Clock, and Electioneering Chronciles, Nos. 4 & 5, Saturday, June 24th & July 1st, 1865, Nottingham: Printed at the "Independent" Office, Freeman's Yard, 4pp & 8pp, 4to, (2); an early Victorian manuscript, The weeks in which the Magistrates attend with the Mayor at the Police Office [...], November 9 1842 to November 9 1843, ink MS on red-ruled paper, 25cm x 40cm, (1); 18th century and Romantic engravings, including James Barry, (1); Hasluck's Plates of Carpentry and Joinery, chromolithographs, folio, (1); Snuff, early 18th century and later clippings from newspapers and Parliamentary Acts, including Black Letter printing; Postal History, Queen Victoria, Penny Red letter front; Nottingham and Ilkeston Turnpike Trust, (2); Nottingham Canal, Lenton; Midland Railway; late Victorian license for one male servant, Hucknall, dated 1897; Chinese painted landscape watercolour; other painted Chinese silks; World War One grave registration and photograph, (2); Grand Tour, two 18th century engravings of the Portland Vase; Chinese antiquities, engravings; landscape, portrait and other engravings, including a mezzotint; maps and charts; early 20th century and later b/w antiquarian and architectural photographs (qty); Folk Art, illustrated manuscript prayer, (1); etc

A collection of nine early 20th century friendship books or albums, inscribed in ink manuscript, occasionally illustrated with pen-and-ink cartoons and drawings, various, oblong 8vo & oblong 4to, [9]

A George II ink manuscript on paper churchwarden's account, inscribed by Mr Warford, Churchwarden, St. Clement Danes, dated 1758, 10pp in folio, various transactions, including payments to individual operators of fire engines (of which one such transaction concerned the fire in the Unicorn Coffee House), the maintenance of the church organ with payments made to the pipe blower, etc., (1); A Register of Preachers, Readers, Collections, &c., in the Church of Kemberton, Salop, London: Printed and Published by Letts, Son & Co. Limited, the ledger inscribed in ink MS and dated from 1887 to 1912, the hands changing through the decades and becoming more minute!, as well as the preacher and subject, there are also some accounts, original green cloth, blind and gilt, marbled endpapers, 4to, (1), [2]

A late Victorian and later lady's illustrated drawing-room commonplace-friendship album, the property of Kath: Ada Campbell, inscribed in ink manuscript from 1889, colourful paper leaves illustrated with accomplished pen-and-ink caricatures and cartoons, a herbarium leaf of dried flora and foliage, watercolour and pencil still lives enclosing passages from belles-lettres, other leaves of prose and verse, friends' sentiments, loosely inserted mounted watercolour: "Corsica/as seen from Cannes before sunrise Jan:ry 1866/distant 155 miles"; cut-paper still life, mounted; other loosely-inserted ephemera, contemporary black roan gilt, all-edges gilt, 4to, [1]

A late Victorian collection of earlier and contemporary autographs, the album with approx. 30pp of clipped autograph signatures, including William Wilberforce (1759-1833), the abolitionist of the Slave Trade; James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth(1649-1685), illegitimate son of Charles, later beheaded for treason; Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury (1660-1718); a letter front only, simply addressed to The Lord Byron, ?by Grey; Edward Carson (1854-1935), the Marquess of Queensbury's defence barrister against Oscar Wilde's libel case; FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788-1855), Commander of British troops in the Crimean War; Salisbury, presumably the late Victorian Prime Minister; Vice-Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour (1759-1801), naval officer of the American and French Revolutionary Wars; Richard Temple, presumably the Colonial administrator in India (1826-1902); Lt.-Col. Charles Edmond Knox (1846-1938), various others, including some royal interest (St. James's Palace writing-paper, ALS from George (?Duke of Cambridge), further loose early 20th century signatures, loosely-inserted manuscript ephemera, photographic prints of CDVs, etc., contemporary specimen timber album, the walnut covers pierced and carved in relief, each centred by an entwined monogram, morocco back, 4to, [1]

A Medieval hand-scrivened and 'illuminated' vellum manuscript antiphonal leaf, recto and verso with six lines of a Latin chant, and comprising one rubricated and one calligraphic initial to each side, musical notation, 54cm x 37cm, North European, late 15th century, (1); another, earlier, fragmentary, 20cm x 41cm, 15th century, (1), [2]

A mid-19th century lady's commonplace or drawing-room album, compiled by Helen Kirk of Leicester, dated 1859, typically inscribed with manuscript verse and prose from belles-lettres, some music, and novelties &/or games, some watercolour illustrations including a rose, Romantic topographical ruins, etc., tipped-in embossed paper cards and prints, contemporary black morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, (1); an early 19th century lady's commonplace book, compiled by Theresa Froggatt, inscribed in manuscript with Romantic poetry, including Henry Kirk White, etc., contemporary morocco gilt over boards (rubbed), 8vo, (1); others, similar, all 19th century, including friendship albums, various bindings and sizes, [7]

A mid-Victorian ink manuscript diary, from 5th April 1872 to 19th June 1875, a day-to-day record of a fairly genteel life, including notes of reading, painting, letter-writing, enjoying the garden, and frequent "another nice day", occasional blights such as 9th January 1873, "I have a violent attack of diarrhoea, but I walk up to the Grange" (a frequent destination in the journal), unfortunately there are no categorical clues as to the identity of the author, however there are many references to the Bank and one tipped-in entry is written on Midland Banking Company, Stamford writing-paper, the handwriting varies in legibility and pace throughout, so the contents may reward a patient eye, interleaved with pink blotting leaves throughout, contemporary pink calf, blind-ruled and diced, all-edges red, 8vo, [1]

A post-Regency lady's ink manuscript commonplace book, "This note book once belonged to the late Mrs Longstaffe/Cynthia ?Feyers/6 Aug 1921", half-inscribed with prose and verse from belles-lettres, the album bound in contemporary maroon morocco gilt, all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, (1); a late Victorian schoolboy's album of arms, crests, & mongrams, armorial devices and monograms clipped from various letterheads, contemporary roan gilt (faults), 8vo, (1); a Victorian booklet of cyphers and monograms, printed in various colours, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); etc., [4]

A post-Regency/early Victorian lady's scrap album-commonplace book, compiled by E.H.W., monogrammed and engraved title-page, illustrated with three cut watercolours of butterflies, topographical and portrait engravings and lithographs, and inscribed in ink manuscript with a 3pp poem 'To Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent/August 17. 1834' by Lady Flora Hastings, contemporary morocco, tooled and blocked in blind, all-edges gilt, 8vo, (1); an early 20th century album, partially-illustrated with watercolours and one pen-and-ink drawing, red roan gilt, 8vo, (1), [2]

Accounting and the Enlightenment in Georgian England - a George IV 3pp ink manuscript ALS, addressed to Robert Sutton [?Junior] Esq., Woodford, Essex, from an indistinctly signed correspondent, the letter encloses a 'List of Editors and Contributors to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana', which includes the scientific and mathematical luminaries William Herschel and Charles Babbage, dated August 31st 1822 (two years following the encyclopædia's revival in 1820, and after Samuel Taylor Coleridge's initial involvement (though his nephew John Taylor Coleridge is listed here as the author of the legal articles)), contemporary postal history franking, (1); a George II ink MS invoice or bill, in the name of Captain Jacob Thompson, dated June 20th 1752, and accounting his purchases, (1), [2]

Album Orné, a post-Regency/early Victorian lady's illustrated drawing-room commonplace-friendship album, [n.d., c. 1835 and onwards], including a full-length portrait silhouette of the Duke of Wellington, dressed in uniform, before the Brighton Pavilion; an Oriental pith paper painting of exotic butterflies and insects; two Chinese pith paper paintings, portraits of Mandarins, one of which holds a ruyi sceptre, Qing dynasty, 19th century; watercolour still lives of flowers and botanical specimens; figural pencil studies; a Gothic Revival hand-scrivened and illuminated paper leaf, The Virgin's Cradle Hymn; ink manuscript inscriptions, including the Lord's Prayer in miniature; passages from the Psalms and other literature; tipped-in and pasted-in portrait and other prints, some-proto brail, including The Blind Man's Bride; etc., loose contents, the colour paper leaves printed with decorative borders, others pierced and reticulated, contemporary maroon morocco gilt, the covers with a printed paper onlay, printed 'lace' endpapers, 4to, [1]

An early 19th century lady's illustrated commonplace book, half-filled by Matilda Pain, and predominantly inscribed in ink manuscript with literary quotes and some maxims, occasional well-executed pencil drawings, contemporary red quarter-morocco gilt over orange papered boards, all-edges gilt, 4to, (1); an early 19th century sketchbook, illustrated with four pencil drawings, comprising the heads of two Arabs, a French cavalier, rabbits feeding, and "Gun raised from the wreck of the Royal George", marbled wrappers, 8vo, (1); a 19th century Anglo-German commonplace book, partially-inscribed in ink MS, EPNS-mounted leather binding, 8vo, (1), [3]

An early 20th century album of watercolours, belonging to Dorothy Powell, illustrated by her and friends from c. 1908-c. 1921, depictions including humorous comedy and cartoons, animals topography, contemporary black roan, rounded rectangular boards, 8vo, (1); an early 20th century friendship album, inscribed in ink MS throughout, including some quotations from Plato, occasional tipped-in photographs, roan, oblong 8vo, (1); an early 20th century Welsh illustrated manuscript game diary, inscribed and tabulated for the 1928-1931 shooting seasons only: 9 pages only with tipped-in prints, 1 page poem on fishing, the entries concern the areas of Criccieth and Tremadog, Gwynedd, North-West Wales, contemporary black morocco album, blind-ruled covers, the upper-cover enclosing the gilt monogram C, red-stained edges, oblong 4to, (1); another album of drawings and illustrations, early 20th century, (1), [4]

Antiquarianism & Palaeography - a collection of four ink manuscript on paper letters, each ALS viz. autograph collecting and auctions, comprising 1st) William Upcott (1779-1845), 1pp dated from the London Institution, 29 July 1820, viz. the Bindley Sale of autographs, (1); 2nd & 3rd) two letters from Dawson Turner (1775-1858), 1pp addressed to Joseph Dindale, [n.p., n.d.], (1), the other 2pp addressed to Josiah French, dated from Yarmouth, 15th August, 1842, previously with Bernard Quaritch (their invoice en suite), (1); 4th) Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), 1pp, dated from Keswick Hall [near Norwich], 1862, (1), [4]

Antiquarianism, Ecclesiology - Corden (Henry), Descriptions of Churches and Cathedrals of Wales, Chester, York and Lichfield, also the Abbeys of Whitby, Rievaulx, Tewkesbury &c., 1906-07, 505pp of ink manuscript, interleaved with watercolours of coats of arms and heraldry, further illustrated with tipped-in postcards, photographs and prints of architecture, ecclesiastical antiquities and interiors, rebacked contemporary half-calf over cloth, the spine lettered in gilt: Cathedrals of Wales & Midlands, Volume VII (but complete in itself), red-stained edges, marbled endpapers, 4to, [1]

Bibliophily - Robinson (E.S.G., of Sneyd Park, Bristol), Catalogue of Books, A-C only (tantalisingly), dated 11/1/[19]04, an Edwardian book collector's manuscript library catalogue, 19pp in black and occasional red ink, as well as the usual books Robinson has a bibliophile's passion for bibliographic detail which is apparent with the relish he catalogues his examples of post-incunabula and Early Modern printing (thought few in number), a handful of provenance &/or purchasing notes, contemporary vellum gilt, the upper-covered lettered, all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, alphabetical place-finders lettered A-Z, 8vo, [1]

Binding - a George III red morocco album, later used in c. 1830 by a Miss Bassett as a commonplace book, about half of the volume has been inscribed by her and friends in ink manuscript with prose and verse, some of which is from belles-lettres and others apparently original, a few pieces are occasionally illustrated with pen-and-ink allegorical headers, detected off-setting suggests that the album was once profusely illustrated (the illustrations have been cleanly removed), fine Neoclassical binding, c. 1830, of red morocco gilt, the covers outlined with a broad double-fillet border, the flat spine with Adamesque devices and borders, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, 4to, [1]

Crime & Punishment - The Krays, HM Prison Wayland Griston Norfolk photograph album, enclosing later Kray postcards, printed after original photographs; a manuscript letter, reputedly inscribed and signed by Reginald "Reggie" Kray (1933-2000), [2]

Cycling in Edwardian Scotland - The Lanarkshire Tandem Club, an ink manuscript of 15pp chronicling its formation, rules, and first five meeting (if the fifth was its last, it was a short-lived venture), dated from its formation on 1st April 1902 to its fifth meeting on 15th September 1903, the records show its members, including Sir Windham Robert Carmichael-Anstruther, 9th Baronet (1877-1903) who was unanimously elected its president), loosely-inserted printed letters/inviations to dinner-meetings (and the printer's bill for providing them too), contemporary half-calf over cloth, gilt-lettered red morocco label to upper-cover, marbled edges and endpapers, 4to, [1]

Death in Victorian England, Further Accounts in the Executorship of the late Edward Werge Esq., inscribed by H.B. Campbell, dated from 1836-1858, ink manuscript on red-ruled pages, contemporary red quarter-roan over marbled boards, 4to, (1); a 19th century manuscript of farming accounts, and some expenditure, probably from a farm near Castle Donnington, possibly farmed by people named Fox, inscribed from January 1836 to February 1840 only, contemporary red roan over marbled boards, 4to, (1); further manuscript accounts, mid-19th century and later, (3); 19th century handwriting exercise book etc., (3) [8]

East India, a bundle of a family's ephemera, comprising photographs, letters, and post, including a typical late 19th century tourist's snapshots of Rome and other Italian sights; a family portrait taken in India, complete with native attendants, landscape cabinet card; manuscript correspondence, including an East India Post Card, addressed to Mr Anderson Powell's New **** Hotel, ****, Punjab, inscribed and dated to verso 17th ***, 188*; an envelope cover addressed to Mrs M Anderson, The Grand Hotel, Kasauli, Punjab, India; etc., [archive collection]

Ephemera - Royalty, Queen Victoria, 1897 Diamond Jubilee, Invitation to the Municipal Reception, 23rd June, 1897, mounted; an Edwardian knighthood investiture guide, printed and addressed on Home Office writing-paper, dated 1904, mounted; correspondence relating to Sir Edward Fraser's invitation to join The Society of Knights Bachelor; further mounted ephemera, manuscript correspondence, etc; a mid-20th century collection of official military Christmas cards, from The War Office, the Headquarters of the British Army of the Rhine, The Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, Royal Marines Officers' Mess, various RAF squadrons and stations, others, including the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, each embossed in gilt or polychrome with their insignia or arms; early 20th century and later postcards, b/w and colour, including transport and shipping, topography, animals; etc

Food & Drink, Oenophilia - Wine Orders, an early 20th century and later wine merchant's ink manuscript orders book, from a London-based firm, possibly in Bloomsbury, the ledger tabulated with 504pp of accounts, the whole prefixed by an index of clients, contemporary quarter-calf over cloth (spine loose), red-speckled edges, marbled endpapers, large 8vo, [1]

Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932), author of The Wind and the Willows - an ink manuscript autographed letter, 2pp written on writing-paper from his address: 16, Durham Villas, Campden Hill, [London], W., and dated 2nd June 1901, thanking its recipient for his initial letter and his enclosed ?manuscript, but unfortunately having to disabuse him of his being able to introduce it or him to a magazine editor because "I rarely see any magazines now-a-days/they change both editors and proprietors with significant rapidity", signed: "Faithfully, yours/Kenneth Grahame", folded for postage, later hole-punctured for filing, the verso inside margin with traces of having been pasted, 18cm x 11.5cm, sold by Francis Edwards, Ltd., their manila Autographs envelope en suite, (1); Paleography, [Warner (Sir George Frederic, FBA, FSA, editor), Facsimiles of Royal, Historical, Literary and other Autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum, First Series: Nos. 1-30, reproduced in lithographic sheets, London: Printed by the Order of the Trustees [...], 1895, folio (46cm x 29cm), (1), [2]

Lincolnshire, Rowston (Roulston), near Sleaford - Highway Account Book, 117pp of ink manuscript on formatted and printed leaves, Weekly Account of Money expended in the Highways of the Parish of Roulston, an annual ledger from 24th March 1838 to 30th March 1839, plus general schedules and financial transactions by the surveyors, contemporary cloth over marbled boards, the upper-over with a printed paper label, oblong 8vo, [1]

Local Interest - John Flamsteed FRS, First Astronomer Royal, a Charles II vellum and ink manuscript indenture, recording the conveyance of land at Hazelwood (then in the parish of Duffield), Derbyshire, from Stephen Flamsteed of Derby, maltster (and signed on his behalf by his son, John) to Matthew Smith of Denby, Gent., dated 3rd August 1674 and endorsed by the purchaser 15th July 1675, 12.9cm x 38.5cm, framed; loosely inserted photograph, Derby Museums and Art Gallery Enquiry document, and a b/w photograph of the munimentStephen Flamsteed was a younger son of the Flamsteeds of Little Hallam Hall, near Ilkeston (descended out of Flamstead, Hertfordshire) settled at Derby as a maltster and built a fine Carolean partly surviving house at 27, Queen Street c. 1670. He was also a coal mine owner and had a house at Denby, to which he retired during the Civil War and where his eminent son, the Recerend John Flamsteed FRS was born in 1646. Matthew Smith, whose name survives in a row of stone built almshouses founded 1713 at The Butts, Belper, was the eldest son of Henry Smith of Whitemoor Hall, Belper and Denby by Jane Bate of Little Chester, and was born at Denby in 1636. He married Anne Gregory of the opulent Nottingham mercantile family, served as JP and in 1685 High Sheriff, dying at Whitemoor Hall in 1714, having outlived his three sons who all died unmarried.

Local Interest - Last Wills and Testaments, a late Victorian-early Edwardian solicitor's master copy, the volume inscribed in ink manuscript with the wills and testaments of clients in and around Retford, Newark, etc., and other portions of Nottinghamshire, 539, the fully-inscribed ledger prefixed by an A-Z index, dated from 1886 to 1904, contemporary boards (disbound), folio (39cm x 26cm), [1]

Local Interest, Landowning in Georgian England - a George III manuscript rate book, for the High Peak hamlet of Wormhill, near Buxton, Derbyshire, compiled, inscribed and tabulated by Benjamin Wyatt, signed and dated 22nd July, 1818 "at five pence in the pound", undersigned by William Barker, the accounts recording occupiers, the landowners, the land and its rental price, [33pp] only - the three-quarters of the front quires have been torn out, contemporary reverse calf, panelled covers, marbled endpapers, some marginal notes and inscriptions, 4to, [1]

Local Interest, Roads, Travel and Transport in late Georgian and early Victorian England - Melton Accounts, The accounts of Samuel Smith Esqr. & Co with the Trustees of the Melton Turnpike Road, [Leicestershire], accounted and inscribed in ink manuscript, dated from 29th September, 1801 to 5th December, 1846, unpaginated, just over one quarter of the volume is inscribed, red-ruled pages, contemporary vellum covers, the upper-cover titled in MS, enveloping fore-edge wrap, 8vo, [1]

Manuscripts - Friendly Society, Ancient Order of Foresters, membership certificate, William Barnes, Brother Forester of Court No. 1819, 21st February 1850, witnessed and signed in ink manuscript by the London Executive Council, architectural chromolithograph-printed sheet trophies of archery and Masonic devices, 41.5cm x 29cm, rectangular rosewood frame with gilt inset, (1); an early 19th century lady's drawing-room commonplace-scrap book, illustrated with engravings and pencil drawings, inscribed with ink manuscript, disbound contemporary calf over marbled boards, 4to, (1); an early-mid 19th century newspaper album, comprising clippings from contemporary newspapers and periodicals, contemporary quarter-sheep over marbled boards, 4to, (1); later MS transcript of an earlier 17th century inquisition, (1), [4]

Medical - a late Victorian/Edwardian ?medicine student's manuscript, Therapeutics & Toxicology/T.R. Greenough, Beechwood, Leigh, Lancashire, [&] King's College, London, among his notes Greenough has commented on the poisonous qualities of arsenic and further chemicals and compounds, including the smallest recorded fatal dose, actions and symptoms of poisoning, and - if any - possible treatment, only two-thirds of the notebook are inscribed, contemporary limp leather binding, marbled endpapers, 4to, [1]

Medical, The Diary of a Newark Gentleman-Physician, a late Victorian and later ink MS diary, written by Dr Ernest Ringrose, M.D., of Lombard House, Newark, Nottinghamshire (1869-1959; also author of a 'History of Newark Hospital 1840-1930', MS at Nottinghamshire Archives), [the volume partially-inscribed, approximately 200pp of MS], the manuscript dated and intermittently inscribed from 7th April, 1886 to 13th October, 1952, including a few insights into medicine, the whole of which is prefixed by 'A short account of my schooldays at Merchant Taylor's School', then suffixed by a one-page chronology of 'Hospitals that I have visited and some I have worked or lived in', the recto flyleaves records Ringrose's cricketing career as a batsman and wicket-keeper, 19th century green-stained vellum, the cover ruled in blind, the upper-cover with partial clasp, marbled edges and endpapers, loosely-inserted Ringrose family b/w photograph, annotated and dated 1936 to verso, 4to, [1]

Miscellaneous - Europe, a late Victorian lady's illustrated travelogue, compiled and illustrated by Alice Marshall, the series of named-views prefixed by her passport, issued under the auspices of Lord Salisbury (then Foreign Secretary) and dated 1880, for "travelling on the Continent", comprising 49 watercolours and 18 pencil drawings of named-view topography, animal, and figural studies, of which 19 pages enclose musical notation and/or song, loosely-inserted ephemera, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); six late Victorian and early Edwardian sketchbooks, probably by the same hand, illustrated (some partially so) in watercolour and/or pencil with landscapes, figural and animal studies, including the Royal funeral of Queen Victoria and its courtege, dated 19010, various bindings, mixed size 8vo, (6); a mid-19th century purple roan manuscript, recto enclosing the commonplace book of Janet Mary Marshall/Clifton/Nov:er 2nd/1852, the verso with a Journal of a Tour, dated 1880, each compiled in a different hand, only a quarter of the volume is inscribed, contemporary binding, floppy 4to, (1); an early 20th century commonplace book, 4to, (1), [9]

Miscellaneous - RAF, Royal Air Force/Navigator's, Air Bomber's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book, 578445 Sergeant F.R. Lloyd, approx. 10pp of inscribed duties, predominantly as a passenger or training, a few missions as a gunner with hits recorded, dated from 21st September 1941 to 7th March 1944, later used post-war as a juvenile's sketchbook, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); an early Victorian ink manuscript commonplace book, quarter-calf over cloth (faults, some losses), 4to, (1); a 19th century blank leather cash book, restrained by a locking clasp (key absent), blue-ruled, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, (1); an early 20th century illustrated and inscribed friendship album, disbound, oblong 12mo, (1); The Co-Operative Wholesale Society Limited Almanack & Diary for 1881, partially-inscribed, cloth (lacks spine, loose), 8vo, (1); an early 20th century ink manuscript anthology of five poems, The Seasons, verses for the general title and four seasons repeated from literature, Medici Society papered notebook, pink paper pages, 8vo, (1), [6]

Music - a Regency lady's manuscript music book, Moore's Melodies/[compiled by] Miss Jane Hathway, January 1825, inscribed engraved title-page, the contents with musical notation and/or libretto, disbound marbled boards, 4to, (1); another, similar, later, Samuel Cooper's Book, 1834, disbound marbled boards, 4to, (1); another later, Aron Winfield's, His Book, Ja:y 18th 1862, quarter-calf, oblong 8vo, (1); six further musical manuscripts, early 19th century and later, fully- or partially-inscribed, both 4to and oblong 8vo, (6), [9]

Music - an early Victorian lady's manuscript music book, compiled by Fanny Beale Neu**e, dated October 22nd, 1843, and inscribed with musical notation and libretto, including Lord Byron's 'My Life I love you' ['Maid of Athens'], arranged for music by G. Keallimark, Charles Dickens's 'The Ivy Green', arranged for music by H. ****, and other scores, contemporary maroon quarter-roan over marbled boards, Sold by F.S. Hopkins, No. 5, Bishopsgate Str., his ticket, 4to, [1]

Piety in late Georgian England, East Sussex - an early 19th century ink manuscript commonplace book cum devotional narrative, inscribed throughout with Christian prayers, maxims and sentiments, occasionally alluding to Biblical scripture, presumably by a native of East Sussex, on November 24th, 1826, on page 64 (of 74pp, unpaginated) they write from the top Cliff Hill and proceed to cite the local topography, overlooking Lewes, Kingston, Spital Mill, Bormer Racecourse, the Chalk Pits, and Offham Mills, each of their further testimonies is dated and in places their piety goes into poetic rhapsody, contemporary calf over original wrappers, only the upper-cover retains some marbled paper, 12mo, [1]

Politics and the Aristocracy - a collection of ten autographs, comprising ten ALS, a typed letter signed in manuscript, and a clipped manuscript autograph, including 1st) Thomas Coutts (1735-1822), the banker and founder of the eponymous house, 3pp dated 26th May 1801, in answer to a petition, with John Wilson of Oxford, (1); 2nd) Local Interest, Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, KG, PC (1811?1864), of Clumber Park, dated Portman Square, 19th April 1855, 3pp, (1); 3rd) Henry FitzRoy (1807-1859), dated from the Home Office, 30th July, 1833, as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 2pp, (1); 4th) Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771-1851), 1pp dated from Dublin, 16th July, 1826, (1); 5th) John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer, PC, DL, FRS (1782?1845), while Viscount Althorp, dated Brighton, 6th August, 1812, 1pp, mounted, (1); 6th & 7th) two letters of Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857), (2); 8th) Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet, PC, FRS (1781-1841), MP and Paymaster of the Forces, autographed front only, (1); etc (2), [10]

Royalty - Courtiers from Queen Victoria's Court, a collection of ALS and ink manuscript Court Circulars: Robert Keate FRCS (1777 ? 1857), Serjeant-Surgeon to William IV and Queen Victoria, 3pp ALS, dated 1837, (1); Sir George Couper, KH, CB, 1st Baronet (1788?1861), Comptroller of the Household and Equerry to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, a third person letter addressed from Frogmore House, 18th January 1851, requesting Mr Roberts, Superintendent of [Windsor] Castle, for an order to see the State Apartments for his son and a schoolfellow, (1); three late Victorian Court Circulars, two dated 1898 & 1899, all inscribed on Balmoral Castle writing-paper, (3); Sir Lionel Henry Cust KCVO FSA (1859-1929), Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, (1); other, later, (1), [7]

Royalty - Edward VII (1841-1910), his ink manuscript autograph, (1); an envelope addressed and initialled as the Prince of Wales, 1869, to Arthur Helps Esq (later Sir, Dean of the Privy Council)/Privy Council Office/Whitehall/London W., annotated collector's mount, (1), [2]

Royalty - Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor (1894-1972), signed David while Prince of Wales, a 2pp ALS to his "Aunt Louise" (presumably Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, 1848?1939, Queen Victoria's sixth child and fourth daughter), inscribed in ink manuscript on St. James's Palace writing-paper, the upper-left margin with his E and ostrich feather cypher as PoW, n.d. but 1924 (American tour of that year cited in the epistle), dutifully the prince thanks his aunt for the kind letter and book she sent to him, "But you are always sweet to me - ", the letter subsequently comments on the prince's future tour to America: "Yes - I do need a rest & change badly which my trip to America will give me -", eventually the letter is signed-off: "Yours affectionately David", formerly with Alex M. Frizzell of Castlelaw, West Linton, Peeblesshire, [1]

Royalty - George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster PC (1794 ? 1842), the eldest illegitimate son of William IV and Dorothea Jordan, a 1pp ALS, inscribed in ink manuscript on paper, dated 30 March 1820, autographed Munster, in which he refers to some prior correspondence, [1]

Royalty - George IV (1762-1830), 2pp ALS of ink manuscript as Prince of Wales, dated from Carlton House, January 16 1/2 past 5 p.m., 1806, addressed to Calcraft (John (1765-1831), at the time MP for Wareham) viz. the Prorogation of Parliament, there not being a ?Privy "Council" being held, and that the levée "such as is called was merely for the Minister, Foreign Minsters, & for the presentation of Lord Wellesley whose Carriage I myself saw there. This all I could learn, but I think it more than probably that a Council was held, & which can only have been for the purpose of Prorogation, as I am confident, that whilst I was at the window I saw Fawkener's Carriage drive away, but I dare say if it is, so, long before this you must have known whether it is really so or not [...]", signed with an entwined monogram GP, the outer wrapper inscribed: P. of. W. 16th Jan:y 1806, traces of red wax seal, formerly with John Wilson of Oxford, [1]

Royalty - John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845-1914), husband of Princess Louise, Queen Victoria's sixth child and fourth daughter, two 1pp ALS written and autographed as the Marquess of Lorne : 1) one letter inscribed in ink manuscript and dated October 1 1898 on Kensington Palace writing-paper, (1); 2) the other dated 1889, (1), [2]

Royalty - Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), grandson of George III, cousin of Queen Victoria, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces from 1856-1895, a 1pp ALS on Gloucester House, Park Lane, writing-paper, dated November 28th/73, inscribed and autographed in ink manuscript on paper viz. the ordering of a book, signed "George", the mount incorrectly inscribed by an earlier collector in pencil, [1]

Royalty - Prince George, Duke of Kent, (1902-1942), fourth son of George V and Queen Mary, a brother to two kings, signed "gt. nephew George", a 5pp ALS and addressed envelope to his "Darling Aunt Louisa" (Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, 1848?1939, Queen Victoria's sixth child and fourth daughter), the letter inscribed in ink manuscript on the prince's H.M.S. Durban, American Station writing-paper (later amended by hand to Bermuda), dated December 10 1928, the sensitive prince thanks his artistic aunt for her (premature) best wishes for Christmas and 1929, and goes on to discuss how depressing it is being away from home with the "illness of Papa's [George V] [...] there never seems to be any definitive improvement - Have been so anxious being so far away & getting little news. I feel I should be home but I suppose there's nothing to be done & one can only wait & pray for the best. I wonder so much how you have been. I do hope well & free from colds - I suppose you'll soon be going south again - to Cap Ferrat again with your jazz [?]curtains & walks & the gala [...]", the prince evidently found being onboard and stationary in Bermuda both tiresome and lonely: "there's no one on board I like or can make friends with - However I do my best & pretend it's not so bad but it's depressing! [...] It's better when we're on a cruise, seeing new places, but just now we are stuck in Bermuda which I think a terrible place. The dockyard is miles from the town - I take the people are terrible - so [underlined] common & pleased with themselves & there really is hardly any-thing to do - just games & it gets dark early"; the future meant sailing to other islands and the prince looked forward to the change, on the fifth page he muses "I often think of you & wonder how you are. I feel very guilty not having written before - [...] Do please write again as I love hearing from you. Much love dearest Aunt Louise & all my best wishes from your loving gt. nephew Georgie", the envelope addressed by the prince's hand: HRH The Princess Louise/Duchess of Argyll/Kensington Palace/London W, the upper-left : England, franked: Received From H.M. Ship, later London franking dated Dec 22/1928, formerly with Alex M. Frizzell of Castlelaw, West Linton, Peeblesshire, [1]

Scotland, Georgian Land Ownership - Rental of the Lands of Dunlop, [East Ayrshire], [n.d., mid-18th century], 20pp of ink manuscript accounts, contemporary vellum wrap, the spine later lettered in gilt, 8vo (19cm x 8cm), [1]