Women Through History

COOKERY & MEDICINEManuscript culinary and medicinal recipe book written in several hands, containing some 250 receipts, including 'For Minst Pyes'...

WOLLSTONECRAFT (MARY)A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, second or third edition, lower section...

TIGHE (MARY)Manuscript notebook titled 'Sonnets', on the first leaf, containing some 140 poems, written in ink in a fine closely written hand, in...

PIOZZI (HESTER LYNCH THRALE)Autograph letter signed ('H:L:Piozzi') to Doctor Thackeray, written in the third person, asking him to ensure that a ...

AUSTEN (JANE)Autograph letter signed ('Yours affec.ey/ J. Austen') to 'My Dear Anna [Lefroy]', informing her niece that 'Your Grandmama is very mu...

BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT)The Battle of Marathon. A Poem Written in Early Youth... Printed for her Father in 1820 and Now Reprinted in Type-facs...

BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT)An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems, FIRST EDITION, first issue with 'found' on page 75, line 15, and no misalignment ...

BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT)Prometheus Bound. Translated from the Greek of Aeschylus. And Miscellaneous Poems by the Translator, FIRST EDITION, h...

BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT)Poems... New Edition, 2 vol., second edition enlarged, half-titles, imprint in second state as usual (193 Piccadilly,...

COOK (ELIZA)Autograph poem signed ('Eliza Cook'), titled 'Master Onny/ Affectionally inscribed to my dear nieces, Jenny and Annie', comprising fou...

[BRONTË (CHARLOTTE)]Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, bound without publisher's advertiseme...

[BRONTË (CHARLOTTE)]Shirley. A Tale. By Currer Bell, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, volume 2, p.304 with page number and error in line 1 corrected, 3pp. ...

NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)Notes on Hospitals, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the day of publication to 'Geo. Godwin Esq. in gratitude for t...

NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)Series of fifteen letters, comprising eleven autograph, two in another hand (one signed, with autograph subscription), one p...

CAMERON (JULIA MARGARET)William Holman Hunt, half length portrait, albumen print, mounted on card, captioned in ink 'Registered Photograph. W. Ho...

CAMERON (JULIA MARGARET)Ellen Terry, photogravure on tissue paper, tipped onto thick laid paper, published in 'Camera Work', image 158mm. diamete...

CAMERON (JULIA MARGARET)George Frederic Watts, albumen print, mounted, signed and inscribed 'From life registered photograph copy right' in ink, ...

CAMERON (JULIA MARGARET)Mary Hillier, albumen print, left corners irregularly trimmed [Cox & Ford 270], 325 x 250mm., 1873Footnotes:'Beginning as...

JEKYLL (GERTRUDE)Home and Garden, 1900; Lilies for English Gardens, 1901; Wall and Water Gardens, [1901]; Roses for English Gardens, 1902, FIRST E...

TRANSGENDER - BINDING[LILI ELBE] Man into Woman. An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex. The True Story of the Miraculous Transformation of the Da...

MITCHELL (MARGARET)Typed letter signed ('Margaret Mitchell Marsh') to Mr Harry Haggas ('Dear Mr Haggas'), pleased to hear an English reader is int...

NEURATH (MARIE)Railways Under London, 'Library Edition', illustrated throughout in colour, including double-page title, map and full-page illustr...

FONTEYN (MARGOT)A pair of pink satin ballet pointe shoes worn by Margot Fonteyn, made by Frederick Freed of London, each sole size 4 and stamped ...

KEELER (CHRISTINE)Archive of letters, photographs and other material relating to the childhood and career of Christine Keeler (1942-2017), the maj...

DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALESPortrait photograph by Terence Donovan, signed and dated by the sitter ('Diana 1990') in ink on the mount, depicting Diana...

LEIBOVITZ (ANNIE)Annie Leibovitz, 'SUMO' Collector's Edition, LIMITED TO 10,000 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER, out-of-series copy with 'samp...

GREENAWAY (KATE)Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children, first edition, first issue, colour illustrations, faintly soiled, publisher's...

GREENAWAY (KATE)The Quiver of Love, 8 chromolithographed plates mounted (4 by Greenaway, 4 by Walter Crane), gift inscription, publisher's bevell...

GREENAWAY (KATE)Album containing 67 drawings, including 44 by Greenaway, 13 possibly by her and 10 executed in her style, mostly of children but ...

GREENAWAY (KATE)A pair of original illustrations of a little girl bowing, and little boy in Van Dyck costume, watercolour heightened with bodycol...

GREENAWAY (KATE)Almanack for 1883-[1895], 1897, 1924-1929, a complete set, together 20 vol., first editions, colour illustrations by Kate Greenaw...

GREENAWAY (KATE)Almanack for 1883-[1895] and 1897, a complete set with some variants, together 18 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, colour illustrations by K...

GREENAWAY (KATE)Almanack for 1883-[1895], 1897, 1924-1929, a complete set with some variants and duplicates, together 51 vol., first editions, co...

GREENAWAY (KATE)Almanack for 1884, 50 copies, colour illustrations by Greenaway, publisher's pictorial wrappers with outer border printed in brow...

GREENAWAY (KATE)Kate Greenaway's Alphabet, 106 copies, first editions, comprising 3 copies of the first issue, and 103 of issue 1c, colour illust...

GREENAWAY (KATE)'I walked in the lonesome evening', original illustration, pencil with faint watercolour, two-verse pencil caption below, signed ...

GREENAWAY (KATE)Kate Greenaway's Album: 192 Pictures in Gold Frames, Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans, ONE OF ONLY EIGHT COPIES PRINTED, THE ...

GREENAWAY (KATE)'The Naughty Little Girl who went to see her Grandmama', AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS produced for ...

GREENAWAY (KATE)'This was their favourite amusement', autograph manuscript illustrated with original watercolour, initialled 'KG' at end', pencil...

GREENAWAY (KATE)'Who'l go a jump' [sic], pair of original illustrations related to p.55 of Marigold Garden, one pencil and watercolour, titled an...

GREENAWAY - PRINTING BLOCKSA key block and 5 colour blocks for 'Marigold Garden', engraved by Edmund Evans for the illustration of three children...

GREENAWAY - PRINTING BLOCKSA collection of 5 woodblocks for 'Marigold Garden', and approximately 36 packets of further printing blocks, the woodb...

GREENAWAY (KATE)Original illustration of three ice-skating children, watercolour on card, signed with initials lower left, 130 x 100mm.For furthe...

GREENAWAY (KATE)Three original illustrations, two of bonneted girls with posies, and one of a lady in red and white dress, pencil, ink and waterc...

GREENAWAY (KATE)Original illustration of a procession of children gathering flowers, black and brown ink, signed with initials lower left, light ...

GREENAWAY (KATE)Four original illustrations, pencil, 2 signed with initials and one dated 'April 1883', images 150 x 100mm. and smaller (4)Footno...

GREENAWAY - EPHEMERAA large quantity of ephemera, including:Manuscript material: autograph letter signed to Lady Maria Ponsonby, thanking her for...

GREENAWAY - CERAMICSAn extensive collection of British and Continental Ceramics of Kate Greenaway interest, including fifteen Royal Worcester fig...

GREENAWAY - T & R BOOTE AND MINTON TILESTwenty-six tiles in various sets, earthenware, dust-pressed body with transfer-printed illustrations depi...

SPIELMANN (MARION HARRY) AND GEORGE S. LAYARDKate Greenaway, EDITION DE LUXE, signed by John Greenaway, with an original pencil sketch by Kate Gr...

SPIELMANN (MARION HARRY) and GEORGE S. LAYARDKate Greenaway, 'EDITION DE LUXE PRESENTATION COPY', signed by John Greenaway, with an original penc...

ALBUM – CONSTANCE MARSDENAutograph album of photographer Constance B. J. Marsden of Redcliffe Gardens, South Kensington, containing some 35 signat...

ASSOCIATION ITEMS AND MEMORABILIAPresentation clock given to the Leicester suffragette Dorothy Pethick, inscribed on reverse 'Dorothy Pethick. Fr...

BADGESCollection of 10 celluloid suffragette button badges issued by the WSPU, the WFL, the NUWSS and the MLWS, including the legends 'Votes for ...

COBBE (FRANCES POWER)Why Women Desire the Franchise, FIRST EDITION, 12pp., modern calf-backed boards, Published by the London National Society fo...

DAVISON (EMILY WILDING)Correspondence and papers relating to the life and death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison (1872-1913), comprising:i) Fo...

DAVISON (EMILY WILDING)Fine photograph of the moment when Emily Wilding Davison was struck by the King's horse on Derby Day, sepia-toned gelatin s...

DEPUTATION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, 1909Votes for Women. Souvenir & Official Programme. the text continuing 'A Deputation of Women will go the Hou...

DESPARD (CHARLOTTE)Woman in the New Era... with an Appreciation by Christopher St. John, publisher's printed wrappers, front wrapper with stain a...

DUVAL (EMILY) & THE WSPUCollection of letters, printed ephemera and drawings relating to the Duval family and their involvement with the WSPU, com...