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1959374743Illustrated London News London 1959. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 964 pages. Half year volume bound in dark blue buckram gilt lettered. In attractive bright condition internally with quite minimal age related wear. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 25 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News hardcover
1960374733Illustrated London News London 1960. Publisher's Binder. Very Good Condition. 756 pages. Original weekly issues centred stapled as issued with outer wrappers all containted in the publisher's heavy duty Easibind binder. Each weekly issue can be removed from the binder if needed. All in attractive bright condition with quite minimal age related wear. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 26 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News unknown
1960374734Illustrated London News London 1960. Publisher's Binder. Very Good Condition. 756 pages. Original weekly issues centred stapled as issued with outer wrappers all containted in the publisher's heavy duty Easibind binder. Each weekly issue can be removed from the binder if needed. All in attractive bright condition with quite minimal age related wear. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 26 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News unknown
1960374739Illustrated London News London 1960. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 1204 pages. Half year volume bound in dark blue buckram gilt lettered. In attractive bright condition internally with quite minimal age related wear. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 25 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News hardcover
1961374735Illustrated London News London 1961. Publisher's Binder. Very Good Condition. 820 pages. Original weekly issues centred stapled as issued with outer wrappers all containted in the publisher's heavy duty Easibind binder. Each weekly issue can be removed from the binder if needed. All in attractive bright condition with quite minimal age related wear. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 26 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News unknown
1962374732Illustrated London News London 1962. Publisher's Binder. Very Good Condition. 624 pages. Original weekly issues centred stapled as issued with outer wrappers all containted in the publisher's heavy duty Easibind binder. Each weekly issue can be removed from the binder if needed. All in attractive bright condition with quite minimal age related wear. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 26 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News unknown
1962374731Illustrated London News London 1962. Publisher's Binder. Very Good Condition. 784 pages. Original weekly issues centred stapled as issued with outer wrappers all containted in the publisher's heavy duty Easibind binder. Each weekly issue can be removed from the binder if needed. All in attractive bright condition with quite minimal age related wear. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 26 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News unknown
1964374738Illustrated London News London 1964. Magazine. Very Good Condition. 695 pages. 16 original weekly issues centred stapled as issued with outer wrapper. All in attractive bright condition with quite minimal age related wear. Priced as a group. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 26 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News unknown
1964374737Illustrated London News London 1964. Magazine. Very Good Condition. 668 pages. 17 original weekly issues centred stapled as issued with outer wrapper. All in attractive bright condition with quite minimal age related wear. Priced as a group. Given the relatively complex nature of ILN volumes and the weekly issues we believe this book is complete but we cannot be absolutely certain in regard to all pages. Size: 26 x 36 cms. Category: Illustrated London News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Illustrated London News unknown
4555Dated in facsimile October 1899. Sambourne 1844-1910 contributed illustrations to Punch for more than forty years. On good laid paper dimensions roughly 22 inches by 17 1/2. With facsimile signature and date. Folded twice. Slightly discoloured and a little creased but suitable for framing. Depicts Mr Punch with his dog Toby sitting atop a pile of the 'evolutions of the century' including a bicycle and typewriter and waving to 116 of the century's worthies including Bismark General Tom Thumb and the jockey Fred Archer but without Karl Marx. The key approximately 17 inches by 11 has some wear along central crease but is also good. See Image. Dated in facsimile October 1899. unknown
16729A. & C. Black Adam & Charles Black 4 5 & 6 Soho Square London W1. March 1939. 154 1pp. 8vo. Stapled in striking black card wraps with the following on the cover in large white letters: 'A & C BLACK'S COMPLETE CATALOGUE'. In good condition lightly aged on browning high-acidity paper. A meticulous production fully indexed. On the title-page the firm is said to be 'Incorporating S. W. Partridge & Co. Established 1850 and Gay & Hancock Ltd. Established 1891 The Sportsman's Library etc. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd. Various titles transferred from Alexander Maclehose & Co.' Scarce: no other copy traced either on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC. A. & C. Black [ Adam & Charles Black ], 4, 5 & 6 Soho Square, London, W1. March 1939. paperback
19695Now offered for sale at the instruction of the Executors by Messrs J. & E. Bumpus Ltd. 350 Oxford Street London W.1. Circa 1956. . 120 pages unpaginated 12mo. Stitched without covers. In fair condition: worn particularly the first two leaves and aged. A marvellous collection described in a carefully printed and compiled catalogue of 901 lots. A two-page 'Prefatory Note' has a long quotation from one of Meynell's catalogues beginning: 'My books must at my death be turned to account. What I have to fear and what I hereby forbid is that they should be offered as a whole to some insensitive dealer who judges a collection by its bindings its look of prosperity the presence of those standard 'rarities' that are to be had from every expensive bookseller and found in every wealthy man's library.' Following the quotation Bumpus i.e. Wilson points out that 'Into a large number of entries in this list have been introduced the phrases by which Everard Meynell characterised the book in question in his own notes of his stock and library.' Divided into two roughly equal parts: 'Books written before 1800' and 'Books Mss. and Letters written after 1800'. The latter include sections of Browning Coleridge Coventry Patmore and Rossetti associations. There are also long descriptions of a number of AlsS to Patmore: nine from Robert Bridges £25; three from Robert Browning and his wife eighteen guineas; five from Thomas Carlyle £70; Gerard Manley Hopkins lots 651 to 655; Francis Thompson lots 880 to 882; Tennyson lots 864 and 865; and six letters from Lady Tennyson to Mrs Patmore eight guineas. Among the single letters offered are items by Mary Shelley ten guineas and Robert Louis Stevenson £65. Scarce: only two copies on OCLC WorldCat. Now offered for sale at the instruction of the Executors by Messrs J. & E. Bumpus Ltd. 350 Oxford Street, London, W.1. [ Circa 1 unknown
19363Circa 1814 the certificates being 'for the Year commencing the 5th of April 1815' following 'an Act passed in the 54th Year of the Reign of His present Majesty'. Benjamin Wright and Co. Printers 31 Little Queen-street Holborn London. Crisply printed with the long s on one side of a piece of 37.5 x 25 cm. thick laid paper. In fair condition aged and worn having been used to wrap up items and with the following in manuscript on reverse: 'No. 1. Vouchers recd. of Mr. Gabell'. The text begins: 'Notice is hereby given that by the Acts of 48 Geo. III. Cap. 55. and 52 Geo. III. Cap. 93. every Person who intends to use or shall use any Dog Gun Net or other Engine for the Purpose of taking or killing any Game whatever or any Woodcock Snipe Quail or Landrail or any Conies or shall take or kill or shall assist in the taking or killing any Game or any Woodcock Snipe Quail or Landrail or any Conies must before he shall so take or kill or assist in the taking or killing the same subject to the Provisions in an Act passed in the 54th Year of the Reign of His present Majesty Cap. 141 annually pay the Duties imposed by the said Acts to one of the Collectors of the Assessed Taxes for the Parish in which he resides who will give a printed Receipt for the same which Receipt is to be exchanged for a Certificate to be signed by the Clerk to the Commissioners for the District.' A space has been left blank for the details of 'the Clerk to the Commissioners of this District'. Details of the duties in four instances are given. From the papers of the Harington baronets of Ridlington. Circa 1814 (the certificates being 'for the Year commencing the 5th of April 1815', following 'an Act passed in the 54th Year of unknown
18203Dated on inside: 'HODGSON & CO. 115 Chancery Lane. August 1908.'. 7 1pp. 12mo. Stitched. On aged and grubby paper. Second page reads: 'NOTE. Clients wishing to make use of the volumes in this list are requested to apply to the Sale-Room Clerk to whom all books should be returned when finished with. HODGSON & CO. 115 Chancery Lane. August 1908.' The works are all in English and date from the late nineteenth century onwards. They range from 'Abbott T. K. Catalogue of Fifteenth-Century Books in the Library of Trinity College Dublin 1905' to 'Wright C. T. Hagberg Catalogue of the London Library St. James's Square 1903'. No other copy traced either on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC. Dated on inside: 'HODGSON & CO. | 115, Chancery Lane. | August, 1908.' unknown
19130His Majesty's Receipt of Exchequer London. 13 November 1749. 1p. 8vo. On aged and worn paper. Laid out in the usual style with printed text completed in manuscript. Records a payment of £12 10s 0d to the 'Ministers and Elders Of the French Church of St Martin Orgars of London as Assigned by Margin' and signed at foot by 'James Eynard Minister' 'David Durand Minister' and elders 'Jno Bonnet' 'Matthew Clarmont' 'Philip Rigail' and 'Peter De Visme junr'. Note from Wikipedia: "St Martin Orgar was a church in the City of London in Martin Lane off Cannon Street most famous as being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons". Most of the building was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 but the tower and part of the nave were left standing.1 The parish was merged with St Clement Eastcheap. The remains of the church were restored and used by French Protestants until 1820." [ His Majesty's Receipt of Exchequer, London. ] 13 November 1749. unknown
18734Headed: 'J. V. A. D. 24. Joint V.A.D. Committee. The Territorial Force Association. The British Red Cross Society. The Order of St. John of Jerusalem.' 83 Pall Mall London. Dated 1 November 1916. 4pp. 16mo. Bifolium. A scarce piece of First World War ephemera on creased and aged paper. The certificate has been made out in order to enroll 'Dorothy Marion Cameron Bower' into 'Detachment 8 in the County of Westmorland' but has not been signed by her. The first page carries the conditions of use the second a declaration by the signatory and the third the permit itself with facsimile signatures of Arthur Stanley Chairman and Louis Pearson Hon. Secretary and the actual signatures of Henry Gandy County Director and John Mason M.D Commandant. The last page is for renewal stamps. Headed: 'J. V. A. D. 24. | Joint V.A.D. Committee. | The Territorial Force Association. | The British Red Cross Society. | The O unknown
26589'at the St James' Theatre kindly lent by Mr. George Alexander On Friday June 7th 1907 at 3 p.m.'. 4pp. folio. Bifolium. In fair condition on aged paper slightly worn at head. The front page is headed 'H.R.H. Princess Christian and the Royal Members are Patrons of a Private Farewell Matinee arrranged by Lady Romney on behalf of the Green Park Club for Mr. and Mrs. Luther Munday'. The names of twenty performers are listed beneath this headed by Herbert Beerbohm Tree with various other individuals named. The central two pages form a single arrangement of dozens of facsimile signatures beneath the following message from the Countess of Romney as President of the Green Room Club: 'Names are the beads of Memory's Rosay. I have had these autographs fac-similied from Mr. Munday's collection of letters because they connect the past with the present. These Stars in the firmament of Art have all and many more without money or price taken some part in the Thousand Hours of Play and Song - social gatherings initiated and managed by Mr. & Mrs. Munday. To this Farewell Tribute from the Green Park Club headd by its Royal members I have added overleaf one other record viz: that of the original Lyric Club. These with 76 organized for charities comprise 400 Entertainments given during the past 20 years.' The final page is headed 'Copy of a Record of the Old Lyric Club 1887. To the Secretary: Mr. Luther Munday'. Among those endorsing the account are Edward Spencer Churchill Henry Irvving Arthur Sullivan George Grossmith and Charles Wyndham. 'at the St James' Theatre, kindly lent by Mr. George Alexander, On Friday, June 7th, 1907, at 3 p.m.' unknown
18695Maggs Bros. 109 Strand London W.C. 1915. W. C. Hemmons Central Printing Works Bristol. . 2 44pp. 12mo. Stapled in grey wrappers which are included in the pagination. 3258 items in double column from '1. A full and correct report of the trial of Sir Home Popham 1807' to '3258 Zola. - Labor'. A 'Special Notice' at the front explains that 'All the books are definitely desired for Customers or for completing sets. The greater number are inexpensive and many of them would be found on the shelves of Circulating Libraries.' No copy traced on OCLC WorldCat or COPAC. Maggs Bros., 109, Strand, London, W.C. [ 1915. ] [ W. C. Hemmons, Central Printing Works, Bristol. ] unknown
19013Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. Printed in Great Britian by The Courier Press Leamington Spa and London. No date. 1930s. 13 1pp. 8vo. Stapled and unbound. Staining to inner margin of front cover otherwise in fair condition on lightly aged paper. Thirteen items eleven by Greenaway with three illustrations and two by Thomson both illustrated. The most expensive item at £100 is the first Greenaway's 'Apples' illustrated: 'A large water-colour drawing of a little girl standing in front of a whitewashed wall holding a few apples in the lid of a hamper. The girl has unkempt hair and wears crimson ear-rings a straw hat a blue jacket and a pink-spotted white pinafore tucked up at her waist.' Neither COPAC nor OCLC WorldCat turns up a single copy in Britain. Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. [ Printed in Great Britian by The Courier Press, Leamington Spa and London. ] No date. [ 1930s?] unknown
18061N.W.S.C. War Loan Leaflet B. 'Issued by the National War Savings Committee Salisbury Square E.C.' '1/17' i.e. January 1917 . 4pp. 8vo. Bifolium. In fair condition on aged and worn paper with some fraying at head. 29 questions beginning with 'WHAT is the Loan for To raise money to pay for the War and to hasten the coming of Peace.' Scarce: no copy on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC. N.W.S.C. War Loan Leaflet B. 'Issued by the National War Savings Committee, Salisbury Square, E.C.' '1/17' [ i.e. January 1917 ] unknown
18060'No. 33' 'Published by the National War Aims Committee at 54 Victoria Street London S.W.1.' Report of address by the Prime Minister 'to delegates of the British Trade Unions at the Central Hall Westminster on January 5th 1918.'. 4pp. 8vo. Bifolium. In fair condition on aged and worn paper. 'No. 33' in top right-hand corner of first page which is headed by National War Aims medallion featuring George slaying the dragon. The two central papers carry 'The Prime Minister's Declaration' with headings: 'What we are NOT fighting for' 'What we ARE fighting for' 'In Europe' 'In Asia and Africa' 'General' 'Conclusions'. The back page carries 'Endorsements of the Prime Minister' by Clemenceau Albert Thomas President Wilson Arthur Henderson J. H. Thomas Lord Lansdowne and Ramsay Macdonald. The only copies on COPAC at the Imperial War Museum and London School of Economics. 'No. 33', 'Published by the National War Aims Committee, at 54, Victoria Street, London, S.W.1.' [ Report of address by the Prim unknown
18105Issued by Nicolas Sarony & Co. New Bond Sreet London W.1. 1928 . A charming and evocative production. Cards in very good condition; album in good condition with light signs of age and wear. Initial note: 'This Travel Album is issued without charge to hold a complete set of twenty-five "A Day on the Airway" pictures as issued with all packings of Sarony Virginia Cigarettes plain or cork tipped.' The album comprises eight pages printed in black and green on thick paper stitched into black card wraps. Embossed on the front cover in faded gold is the title and an illustration of the plane an Imperial Airways 'Argosy' flying in clouds. Foreword with facsimile signature and facsimile ink portrait by Sir Alan Cobham concluding: 'I wish Nicolas Sarony & Co. every possible success with "A Day on the Airway." By issuing their cigarette pictures of aviation they are not only helping the cause of flying but they are thereby helping Britain.' The text describes a fictitious flight 'starting from Croydon Aerodrome with Amsterdam as the final place of landing' of which there is a full-page map. The cigarette cards each printed in colour within a gold border illustrate the text beginning with 'Weighing In' 'Land Lighthouses' 'Control Tower' 'Embarking' 'Position Finding' and 'Interior Saloon'. The following 19 cards illustrate scenes viewed from the plane ending with 'Central Station Amsterdam'. Uncommon: no copy found on either OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC. Issued by Nicolas Sarony & Co., New Bond Sreet, London, W.1. [ 1928 ] paperback
16760Red Cross Garden Southwark London. Dated 15 August 1914. On three sides of a vellum bifolium supplied by the London law stationers Witherby & Co. Dimensions of leaf 39 x 26 cm. In good condition lightly aged and creased. The document is a draft with several emendations in pencil including a lengthy addition in the margin of first page and a shorter one on the second page. Laid out in customary style within red rules. Docketed on fourth side: 'Dated 15th August 1914 The Earl of Ducie and Others to The Earl of Ducie and Others Red Cross Garden Assignment'. With stamp of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners signed by Hugh de Bock Porter. The document is signed by eight individuals: the Earl of Ducie Lancelot William Bennett Charles Stewart Loch Mary Lumsden Helen Ironside Janet Johnson Thomas Slingsby Tanner Cecil Antony Nussey with each of the eight signatures accompanied by that of a different witness. Eight wafer seals in red wax on a length of green ribbon. The document refers back to the original 999-year lease of 1888 with original lessees 'the said Earl of Ducie William Waldegrave Viscount Wolmer M.P. Herbert Bulkey Mackworth Praed Robert Hunter C.B. i.e. Sir Robert Hunter 1844-1913 Octavia Hill and the said Helen Ironside and the said Janet Johnson'. The document explains that as Hill and Hunter both instrumental in the foundation of the National Trust have since died 'the Assignors are desirous of vesting the said premises in the assignees'. Red Cross Garden was laid out in 1887 on the site of a burnt down paper factory and a derelict warehouse. With its ornamental pond a bandstand a covered play area for children and colourful mosaics the garden was the venue for the annual Southwark Flower Show and other fetes and celebrations. The garden has recently been restored and is now run by the Bankside Open Spaces Trust. [ Red Cross Garden, Southwark, London. ] Dated 15 August 1914. hardcover
