Catalogue: English Literature, History, Children's Books & Illustrations

SALE L08405

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Session 1 | 17 Jul 08, 11:00 AM
Session 2 | 17 Jul 08, 2:30 PM

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1

- Henry VIII., Letter signed ("Henry R"), to Sir Randolph Brereton, Chamberlain of the County Palatine of Chester

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8,000 – 10,000 GBP
2

# - James VI and I., Letter signed ("James R"), as King of Scotland

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1,200 – 1,500 GBP
3

# - Charles I., Letter signed ("Charles R") and with a three word autograph subscription ("Votre bon Amy"), to the "Seigneurs Les Estats de la Province de Utrecht"

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
4

Vertue, George., Prints. King Charles I. And the Head of the Noble Earls, Lords, and others, who suffered for their Loyalty in the Revellion and Civil-Wars of England. With their Characters engraved under each Print, extracted from Lord Clarendon. Taken from Original Pictures of the greatest Masters, many of them by Sir Anthony Van Dyke, and all the Heads accurately engraved by Mr Geo. Vertue. London: C. Davis, S. Austen and W.H. Toms, 1746

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2,000 – 3,000 GBP
5

Gwyn, Eleanor [Nell]., Household accounts, bills, receipts, and other financial records of Nell Gwyn and the Restoration Court, comprising:

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40,000 – 60,000 GBP
6

# - British monarchs., A collection of letters and documents, comprising:

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2,500 – 3,500 GBP
7

- Anne, Queen.,

Two documents signed by Queen Anne and a receipt, all relating to campaigns of the duke of marlborough, comprising:

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
8

# - Wesley, John.,

Unpublished autograph letter signed ("J Wesley"), to "My Dear Brother" [John Valton]

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3,000 – 5,000 GBP
9

Cromek, Robert Hartley, and Cromek, Thomas Hartley.,

Important collection of papers relating to the engraver and literary entrepreneur Robert Hartley Cromek and his son, the painter Thomas Hartley Cromek

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5,000 – 7,000 GBP
10

# - Oliver, Francis. ,

Two autograph letters signed ("F. Oliver"), to Nelson's brother-in-law George Matcham, concerning matcham's planned trip to germany or austria and his patent for raising shipwrecks

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
11

# - Nelson, Horatio, Lord.,

Document signed ("Nelson & Bronte") as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean fleet

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2,000 – 3,000 GBP
12

# - Nelson, Horatio, Lord., Two letters:

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6,000 – 8,000 GBP
13

# - [Nelson, Horatio, Lord.]

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A fragment of flag said to be from hms victory

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25,000 – 30,000 GBP
14

# - Nelson, Horatio, Lord.,

Numbered ticket for Nelson's funeral procession

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3,000 – 4,000 GBP
15

O'Connell, Daniel., Autograph note signed, to John Charles Lyons

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1,200 – 1,500 GBP
16

- William IV., 8 autograph letters signed, as Duke of Clarence, to Sarah de Crespigny

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2,500 – 3,500 GBP
17

# - Talbot, William Henry Fox.

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Three autograph letters signed ("H. Fox Talbot"), to the 3rd Marquis of Lansdowne, chiefly about his photographic patent

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6,000 – 8,000 GBP
18

Victorian autograph album.

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A collection of cut signatures and autograph letters, comprising:

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5,000 – 7,000 GBP
19

# - Bevington, Louisa Sarah,

Series of 18 autograph letters signed (in the earliest letters by her married name "Louisa S. Guggenberger"), to Ethel Rolt-Wheeler

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
20

Kennedy, William.,

Texas: The Rise, Progress and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. London: R. Hastings, 1841

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
21

# - Spilsbury, Sir Bernard., Collection of case notes on autopsies

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7,000 – 9,000 GBP
22

- Gandhi, M.K., A piece of cloth said to have been woven by him

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3,000 – 4,000 GBP
23

# - Selassie, Haile., Photograph signed, in a silver frame

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2,500 – 3,500 GBP
24

- Churchill, Sir Winston., Typed letter signed ("WinstonS. Churchill"),

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
25

Churchill, Sir Winston., The World Crisis 1911-1918...with an additional chapter on the Battle of the Marne. Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1941

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2,000 – 3,000 GBP
26

Churchill, Sir Winston.,

Collection of three items:

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
27

# - Churchill, Sir Winston.,

Photograph signed

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
28

# - Churchill, Sir Winston. ,

Typescript page from a wartime memorandum on civil aviation with extensive autograph additions by churchill

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
29

Churchill, Sir Winston., Four works:

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1,800 – 2,200 GBP
30

Churchill, Sir Winston.

, The Second World War. Cassell & Co., 1948-1954

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1,500 – 2,500 GBP
31

Churchill, Sir Winston., Europe Unite. Speeches 1947 and 1948...edited by Randolph S. Churchill. Cassell and company, 1950

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
32

# - Churchill, Sir Winston.,

Typed letter signed as Prime Minister, to the Warden of Keble College, Oxford [Harry Carpenter]

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
33

# - Churchill, Sir Winston.

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portrait of churchill painted from life by bernard hailstone

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6,000 – 8,000 GBP
34

# - Garbo, Greta.

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fine collection of early postcards and photographs previously owned by greta garbo's childhood friend lisa fager, comprising:

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3,500 – 4,500 GBP
35

# - Paxinou, Katina. ,

A fine series of 45 autograph love letters to Sir Sydney Waterlow

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2,500 – 3,500 GBP
36

# - The Dam Busters.

, Collection of material relating to the production of the bombing raid sequence for the 1955 film, comprising:

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2,000 – 3,000 GBP
37

# - Renoir, J. ,

Series of 51 letters by Renoir and his second wife Dido Freire, to Dudley Nichols

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6,000 – 8,000 GBP
38

Addison, Joseph.,

Collection of four volumes:

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
39

Addison, Joseph.,

The Works. For Jacob Tonson, 1721

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800 – 1,200 GBP
40

Baretti, Giuseppe Marc' Antonio.

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Easy Phraseology, for the use of young ladies, who intend to learn the colloquial part of the Italian language. For G. Robinson and T. Cadell, 1775

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1,500 – 2,500 GBP
41

Baskerville Press--Vergilius Maro, Publius.,

Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. Birmingham: J. Baskerville, 1757

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
42

Baskerville Press--

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Six volumes:

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800 – 1,000 GBP
43

Baskerville Press--Ariosto, Lodovico.,

Orlando Furioso. Tomo primo (-quarto). Birmingham: J. Baskerville for P. Molini and G. Molini, 1773

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800 – 1,200 GBP
44

Baskerville Press--,

Five works, uniformly bound:

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2,000 – 3,000 GBP
45

Boswell, James., The Life of Johnson. Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791

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10,000 – 15,000 GBP
46

Boswell, James, contrib. and editor.,

British Essays in favour of the Brave Corsicans: by several hands. For Edward and Charles Dilly, 1769

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1,200 – 1,500 GBP
47

Boswell, James.,

The Journey of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson. Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1785

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500 – 700 GBP
48

Bougainville, Lewis de., A Voyage Round the World... for J. Nourse and T. Davies, 1772

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2,000 – 3,000 GBP
49

Burke, Edmund--Dalrymple, Sir David, transl.,

The Address of Q. Sept. Tertullian, to Scapula Tertullus, Proconsul of Africa. Edinburgh: Murray and Cochrane, 1790

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
50

[Burke, Edmund]., An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in consequence of some late Discussions in Parliament, relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution. for J. Dodsley, 1791

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700 – 900 GBP
51

Burney, Charles. , An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey, and the Pantheon,...in Commemoration of Handel, T. Payne & Son and G. Robinson, 1785

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600 – 800 GBP
52

Burney, Fanny.,

Two novels in ten volumes, comprising:

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600 – 800 GBP
53

Bibliography.,

A collection of bibliographical reference works, comprising:

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200 – 300 GBP
54

[Calvert, Frederic], 6th Baron Baltimore.,

A Tour to the East...with remarks on the city of Constantinople and the Turks. W. Richardson and J. Clark, 1767

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
55

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of.,

Two works:

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
56

Dodsley, James., A Collection of Poems in six volumes. By several hands. J. Hughes for J. Dodsley, 1765

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600 – 800 GBP
57

Dodsley, R.--Akenside, M.--Gray, T.

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A collection of six works bound in one volume, comprising:

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
58

Defoe, Daniel.,

A Journal of the Plague Year: being Observations of Memorials, of the most remarkable occurences...which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a citizen who continued all the while in London. E. Nutt, J. Roerts, A. Dodd and J. Graves, 1722, first edition, with half-title; [together with:]

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2,500 – 3,500 GBP
59

Defoe, Daniel., Three works:

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
60

Fielding, Henry.,

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. For A. Millar, 1749

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
61

Fielding, Henry. ,

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of his friend Mr. Abraham Adams. Written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. For A. Millar, 1742

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
62

Fielding, Henry., The Tragedy of Tragedies; or the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great. As it is Acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market. With the Annotations of Scriblerus Secundus. J. Roberts, 1731

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800 – 1,000 GBP
63

Fielding, Henry., The Wedding-Day. A Comedy, As it is Acted in the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane, By His Majesty's Servants. For A. Millar, 1743

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700 – 800 GBP
64

Fielding, Henry., A collection, comprising:

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1,500 – 2,500 GBP
65

[Fielding, Sarah.]

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The Adventures of David Simple: containing an account of his travels through the cities of London and Westminster, in the search of a real friend. By a lady. For A. Millar, 1744

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500 – 800 GBP
66

[Fitzgerald, Thomas]., Poems on Several Occasions. J. Watts, 1733

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
67

Foulis Press., A collection of 5 works in 17 volumes:

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800 – 1,200 GBP
68

Garrick, David.

, Two works in four volumes, comprising:

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700 – 1,000 GBP
69

[Garrick, David.]

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A collection of seven plays in one volume from the library of david garrick, comprising:

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
70

Gibbon, Edward., The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. W.Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1776

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4,000 – 7,000 GBP
71

Gibbon, Edward. His copy of : Denina, Carlo., Della Rivoluzioni D'Italia. Libri Ventriquattro...Volume Primo. Turin: 1759

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
72

Gibbon, Edward.,

Two works in three volumes:

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700 – 1,000 GBP
73

[Goldsmith, Oliver].,

The Vicar of Wakefield: a Tale. Supposed to be written by Himself. Salisbury: B. Collins for F. Newbery, 1766

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3,000 – 5,000 GBP
74

Goldsmith, Oliver.,

Two works in four volumes, comprising:

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1,200 – 1,600 GBP
75

Gay, John.

, Two works:

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
76

Gray, Thomas., Poems. A New edition. For J. Dodsley, 1768

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400 – 600 GBP
77

Holbein, H., The Dances of Death, through the various stages of Human Life: wherein the capriciousnesss of that tyrant is exhibited in Forty-Six Copper plates...W. Smith and Co., for John Scott, 1803

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2,000 – 3,000 GBP
78

Hume, David., Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects...in four Volumes.... London: Printed for A. Millar...and A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson in Edinburgh, 1753-1756

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800 – 1,000 GBP
79

[Johnson, Samuel.],

The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. For R. and J. Dodsley and W. Johnston, 1759

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2,000 – 3,000 GBP
80

Johnson, Samuel., A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland. For W. Strahan and T.. Cadell, 1775

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1,500 – 2,500 GBP
81

Johnson, Samuel., Five works in 12 volumes:

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
82

Johnson, Samuel.,

Collected editions of The Rambler and The Idler, comprising:

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
83

Jones, Mary., Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. Dodsley. Clements and Frederick, 1750

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700 – 900 GBP
84

Lawrence, Herbert.,

The life and adventures of Common Sense: an historical allegory.
Printed for Montagu Lawrence, 1769

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700 – 1,000 GBP
85

Lewis, John., The Life of Mayster William Caxton, of the Weald of Kent; the First Printer in England. In which is given an account of the rise and progress of the art of pryntyng in England, during his time, till 1493. Printed in the year 1737

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
86

[Grub Street Journal].

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Memoirs of the Society of Grub-Street. for J. Wilford, 1737

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700 – 900 GBP
87

[Parnell, Thomas.], An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry. For Benj[amin]. Tooke, 1713

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
88

Poetical Miscellany--, Miscellaneous Poems by Several Hands. Published by D. Lewis. J. Watts, 1726

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700 – 1,000 GBP
89

Poetical Miscellany--, Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several hands. For Bernard Lintott, 1712

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1,200 – 1,800 GBP
90

Poetical Miscellany. Three works in one volume--, Mountain, Jacob. Poetical Reveries. for J. Dodsley and sold by J. Woodyer at Cambridge, 1777

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600 – 900 GBP
91

Poetical Miscellany--, Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By several Hands. Publish'd by Richard Savage, Son of the late Earl Rivers. Samuel Chapman, 1726

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
92

Pontis, Louis, Sieur de. , Memoirs of the Sieur de Pontis; Who served in the Army Six and fifty Years, under Henry IV, Lewis the XIII, and Lewis the XIV. Containing Many remarkable passages relating to the war, the court, and the government of those Princes. Faithfully Englished by Charles Cotton, Esq. F. Leach for James Knapton, 1694

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
93

Percy, Thomas editor.

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Miscellaneous Pieces relating to the Chinese. for R. and J. Dodsley, 1762

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500 – 700 GBP
94

Pope, Alexander. , An Essay on Criticism. For W. Lewis for W. Taylor, T. Osborn and J. Graves, 1711

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2,000 – 3,000 GBP
95

Pope, Alexander. , Windsor- Forest . To the Right Honourable Lord Lansdown. For Bernard Lintot, 1713

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700 – 900 GBP
96

[Pope, Alexander, translatior.], The Iliad of Homer. W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, 1715-1720

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2,000 – 3,000 GBP
97

Pope, Alexander. , The Dunciad, Variorum, with Prolegomena of Scriblerus. For A. Dod, 1729

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2,500 – 3,500 GBP
98

[Pope, Alexander.] , An Essay on Man...Epistle I. (II.) (III.) (IV). London: "for J. Wilford", [1733-34]

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
99

- Pope, Alexander, Autograph letter signed, to his half-sister Magdalen Rackett,

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2,000 – 3,000 GBP
100

Pope, Alexander.

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Collection of 3 works:

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
101

Pope, Alexander. ,

Ode for Musick [Ode on St. Cecilia's Day]. For Bernard Lintott, 1713

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1,500 – 2,500 GBP
102

Pope, Alexander. ,

The Works. W. Bowyer for Bernard Lintot, 1717

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
103

[Richardson, Samuel].,

Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded. In a series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel, to her Parents... for C. Rivington and J. Osborn, 1741-1742

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7,000 – 9,000 GBP
104

[Richardson, Samuel].,

Clarissa. Or, the History of a Young Lady: comprehending the most important concerns of Private Life... for S. Richardson, 1748

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1,500 – 1,800 GBP
105

Richardson, Samuel. ,

A collection of three works in fifteen volumes, comprising:

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500 – 700 GBP
106

[Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of].

, Characteristicks of Men, Manners Opinions, Times. [John Darby], 1711

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800 – 1,000 GBP
107

Shakespeare, William., The Works of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts. Revis'd and Corrected, with an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. By. N. Rowe, Esq. For Jacob Tonson, 1709

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2,500 – 3,500 GBP
108

Smith, Charlotte.,

Marchmont: A Novel. Sampson Low, 1796

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700 – 900 GBP
109

Smith, Charlotte.

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Ethelinde, or the Recluse of the Lake. for T. Cadell, 1789

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1,500 – 2,500 GBP
110

[Sterne, Laurence.],

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. Gentleman. T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt (R. and J. Dodsley), 1760-67

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4,000 – 7,000 GBP
111

Sterne, Laurence.

, A Sentimental Journey though France and Italy. By Mr. Yorick. For T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1768

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1,500 – 2,500 GBP
112

Sterne, Laurence. , A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. By Mr. Yorick. For T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1768

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800 – 1,200 GBP
113

Sterne, Laurence., Letters of the Late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne, to his most intimate friends. 1775

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800 – 1,200 GBP
114

[Smollett, Tobias. ],

The Adventures of Roderick Random. for J. Osborn, 1748

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1,500 – 1,800 GBP
115

Smollett, Tobias.,

Four works in eleven volumes, comprising:

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700 – 1,000 GBP
116

[Swift, Jonathan]., A Tale of a Tub, Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind ... To which is added, An Account of a Battel between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library. John Nutt, 1704

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
117

Swift, Jonathan.

, A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue; in a letter to the most honourable Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain. Benj[amin] Tooke, 1712

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700 – 900 GBP
118

[Swift, Jonathan].,

Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships. Benj[amin] Motte, 1726

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20,000 – 25,000 GBP
119

[Swift, Jonathan]., Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships. Benj[amin] Motte, 1726

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3,000 – 5,000 GBP
120

[Swift, Jonathan]., Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships. To which are prefix'd, Several Copies of Verses Explanatory and Commendatory; never before printed ... The Second Edition. Benj[amin] Motte, 1727

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
121

[Swift, Jonathan]., A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, according to the most polite mode and method now used at court, and in the best companies of England. In three dialogues. By Simon Wagstaff. B. Motte and C. Bathurst, 1738

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
122

Swift, Jonathan., Collection of four works:

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800 – 1,200 GBP
123

Walpole, Horace., Two works:

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900 – 1,200 GBP
124

Warton, Thomas, the younger.

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The Poems on Various Subjects. For G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1791

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700 – 1,100 GBP
125

Wilkinson, Tate., Memoirs of his own Life. York: Wilson, Spence andn Mawman for the author, 1790

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
126

Collection,

of 9 works in 22 volumes:

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800 – 1,200 GBP
127

Bible. English, Great Bible version.,

[The Byble in Englyshe, that is to saye the content of al the holy scrypture, both of the olde, and newe testament. London: Richard Grafton, [November] 1540]

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5,000 – 6,000 GBP
128

Boece [Boethius], Hector.

, Scotorum Historiae. Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, for the author, [not before 15 March 1527]

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
129

Caxton, William--Duff, E. Gordon.

, William Caxton. Chicago: the Caxton Club, 1905

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2,500 – 3,500 GBP
130

[Baron , Robert.], Pocula Castalia. The authors motto. Fortunes Tennis-Ball. Eliza. Poems. Epigrams, &c. W. H[unt]. for Thomas Dring, 1650

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2,500 – 3,500 GBP
131

Bible, English. , The Holy Bible, conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: newly translated out of the originall tongues... Robert Barker, 1613

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12,000 – 18,000 GBP
132

Camden, William.,

Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English: With Large Additions and Improvements Publish'd by Edmund Gibson. London: F. Collins for A. Swalle and A. & J. Churchil, 1695

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
133

# - Marvell, Andrew.

, Manuscript verse miscellany, also including poems by Waller, Dryden, Strode, Sedley, Godolphin, and others

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6,000 – 8,000 GBP
134

# - [Shakespeare, William]--Everett, June., "An Eye on the Globe" Archive

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60,000 – 80,000 GBP
135

# - [Shakespeare, William]--Fraser, Eric.,

Set of eight illustrations, comprising

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
136

Burns, Robert.

, Autograph manuscript of his poem, "Once fondly lov'd, and still remember'd dear",

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6,000 – 8,000 GBP
137

Eusebius Pamphili and others.

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Quae extant historiae ecclesiasticae, graece & latin, in tres tomos distributae. Cambridge: Cornelius Crownfield, 1720

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
138

Eden, Sir Frederic Morton.,

The State of the Poor. London: J. Davis, 1797

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2,000 – 3,000 GBP
139

Johnson, Samuel., A Dictionary of the English Language. London: J. and P. Knapton, T. and T. Longman, C. HItch and L. Hawes, A. Millar, R. and J. Dodsley, 1755

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6,000 – 8,000 GBP
140

- Richardson, Samuel., Autograph letter signed, to Miss Frances Grainger

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8,000 – 12,000 GBP
141

# - Coleridge, S.T., Four autograph letters signed, in Latin and English, to his brother George Coleridge

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3,500 – 4,500 GBP
142

# - Coleridge, S.T.,

Autograph letter signed, to his brother George

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
143

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor., Poems on various subjects. London: for G.G. and J. Robinsons, and J. Cottle, Bristol, 1796

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3,000 – 5,000 GBP
144

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.,

Zapolya: a Christmas Tale, in two parts: the Prelude entitled "The Usurper's Fortune;" and the Sequel entitled "The Usurper's Fate". For Rest Fenner, 1817

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5,000 – 7,000 GBP
145

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.,

Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep. John Murray, 1816

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3,000 – 5,000 GBP
146

Keats, John., Poems. C. and J. Ollier, 1817

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7,000 – 10,000 GBP
147

Keats, John.,

Endymion: a poetic romance. Taylor and Hussey, 1818

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5,000 – 7,000 GBP
148

Keats, John.,

Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and other poems. Taylor and Hussey, 1820

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12,000 – 16,000 GBP
149

Lloyd, Charles.

, Poems on the Death of Priscilla Farmer, by her Grandson...Bristol, 1796

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7,000 – 9,000 GBP
150

Shelley, Percy B., Laon and Cythna; or, the Revolution of the Golden City: a vision of the Nineteenth Century. For Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, 1818

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12,000 – 16,000 GBP
151

Shelley, Percy B.,

Alastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude: and other poems. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy...Carpenter and Sons, 1816

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4,000 – 6,000 GBP
152

Wordsworth, William.,

An Evening Walk. An Epistle; in verse. Addressed to a Young Lady from the Lakes of the North of England. J. Johnson, 1793

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20,000 – 30,000 GBP
153

Wordsworth, William.,

Descriptive Sketches. In verse. Taken during a Pedestrian Tour in the Italian, Grison, Swiss, and Savoyard Alps. J. Johnson, 1793

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20,000 – 25,000 GBP
154

Wordsworth, William.,

Lyrical Ballads with a few other poems. J. and A. Arch, 1798

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12,000 – 16,000 GBP
155

Wordsworth, William, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.,

Lyrical Ballads with other poems. J. & A. Arch, 1798 and T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800.

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4,000 – 6,000 GBP
156

Wordsworth, William.,

The Excursion, being a portion of The Recluse, a poem. For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814

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4,000 – 6,000 GBP
157

[Austen, Jane.], Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. T. Egerton, 1813

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8,000 – 10,000 GBP
158

[Brontë, Charlotte, Emily and Anne.] , Poems by Curer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Smith, Elder and Co., 1846

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800 – 1,000 GBP
159

[Brontë, Charlotte, Emily and Anne.], Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1848

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
160

# - Brontë, Charlotte.,

Five pencil sketches by Charlotte Brontë, comprising:

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8,000 – 12,000 GBP
161

# - Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.,

her teapot, engraved with her initials "e.b.b."

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2,500 – 3,500 GBP
162

# - Browning, Robert.,

his desk

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6,000 – 8,000 GBP
163

Dickens, Charles.,

A complete set of the Christmas Books:

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1,500 – 2,500 GBP
164

Dickens, Charles., The Works. Edited by Arthur Waugh, Hugh Walpole, Walter Dexter, and Thomas Hatton. The Nonesuch Press, 1937-8

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4,000 – 6,000 GBP
165

[Hallam, Arthur Henry.]

, Timbuctoo. [1829]

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10,000 – 15,000 GBP
166

Hallam, Arthur Henry., Remains, in verse and Prose, of Arthur Henry Hallam, W. Nicol, 1834

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4,000 – 6,000 GBP
167

Hallam, Arthur Henry., Poems. [Littlewood and co., 1830]

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12,000 – 15,000 GBP
168

Hardy, Thomas., The Trumpet Major. Smith, Elder & Co., 1880

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8,000 – 12,000 GBP
169

- Hardy, Thomas., Autograph manuscript of his elegy on Swinburne, "A Singer Asleep"

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14,000 – 18,000 GBP
170

James, Henry., The Other House. William Heinemann, 1896

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4,000 – 7,000 GBP
171

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord., Three first editions:

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
172

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord.

, Prolusiones Academicae Praemiis Annuis Dignatae et in curia Cantabrigiensi recitatae Comitiis Maximis. Cambridge: John Smith, 1829

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1,800 – 2,000 GBP
173

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord.

,

The Princess; a Medley. Edward Moxon, 1847

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3,000 – 5,000 GBP
174

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord., Maud, and other poems. Edward Moxon, 1855

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2,500 – 3,500 GBP
175

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord.

, Queen Mary. A Drama. Henry S. King & Co., 1875

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3,000 – 5,000 GBP
176

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord--Milnes, Richard Monckton, ed., Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats. Edward Moxon, 1848

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2,000 – 3,000 GBP
177

[Whitfield, Henry John.], Timbuctoo. Cambridge: J. Hall, nr. Pembroke College, [1829]

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1,500 – 2,500 GBP
179

Whitman, Walt., Leaves of Grass. New York: William E. Chapin, 1867

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9,000 – 12,000 GBP
180

# - Wilde, Oscar.,

Autograph letter signed with initials, to his friend Arthur Clifton

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2,500 – 3,500 GBP
181

Auden, W.H.,

Two Poems. Bryn Mawr: November 1934 ("Xmas 1934")

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
182

Auden, W.H., Poem. Bryn Mawr: November 1933 ("1933")

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
183

Auden, W.H., Sonnet. Cambridge: November 1935 ("1935")

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
184

Auden, W.H., Our Hunting Fathers. Cambridge: November 1935 ("1935")

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
185

# - Beckett, Samuel., Important series of 33 autograph and typed letters signed by Beckett to the Irish actor Patrick Magee

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50,000 – 70,000 GBP
186

# - Magee, Patrick., Collection of material relating to Patrick Magee and his acting career, including:

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
187

Beckett, Samuel., Krapp's Last Tape and Embers. Faber and Faber, 1959

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
188

Beckett, Samuel., Das letzte Band. La dernière bande. Krapp's Last Tape. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1974

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1,800 – 2,200 GBP
189

Beckett, Samuel.,

Waiting for Godot. A tragicomedy in two acts. Faber and Faber, 1969

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
190

Beckett, Samuel.,

Six works in English, all presentation copies inscribed by the author to the actor patrick magee and his wife belle

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2,000 – 3,000 GBP
191

Beckett, Samuel.,

Six works in English, including two first editions, all presentation copies inscribed by the author to the actor patrick magee and his wife belle

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
192

Beckett, Samuel.,

Four works in English, all presentation copies inscribed by the author to patrick magee and his wife belle

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
193

Beckett, Samuel.,

Four works, all presentation copies inscribed by the author to patrick magee and his wife belle:

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
194

# - Clarke, Arthur C., Autograph draft manuscript of a movie outline, "The Songs of Distant Earth"

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1,200 – 1,500 GBP
195

# - Clemens, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"),

Autograph letter signed, and series of seven photographic portraits of the author, inscribed, comprising:

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2,500 – 3,500 GBP
196

# - Conrad, Joseph. ,

five pencil portraits of conrad by the hungarian-american artist henry major

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
197

# - Crowley, A. ,

Series of 6 autograph, 19 typed letters, and one postcard signed ("Alesteir", "666"), to Frédéric Mellinger

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6,000 – 8,000 GBP
198

# - Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan and Harry Houdini.

,

Collection of material relating to the Doyles' meeting with Houdini in Atlantic City in June 1922, comprising:

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2,500 – 3,500 GBP
199

Doyle, Arthur Conan., The Lost World. Hodder and Stoughton, [1912]

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
200

# - Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan and Rudyard Kipling.,

Collection of letters addressed to the American journalist D. Thomas Curtin during the First World War, including two autograph letters by kipling about prisoners of war, and six autograph letters by doyle:

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3,000 – 5,000 GBP
201

# - Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan--"Cottingley Fairies"., Print of "Iris and the Gnome", photograph taken by Elsie Wright and her cousin Frances Griffiths with a Midg camera, no.2 of 5 in the series, showing Elsie Wright seated with hat, playing with a gnome, 153 x 108mm., mounted on brown card, [September 1917]

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
202

Detective Fiction. Collection of five works:,

Berkeley, Anthony [pseudonymn for A.B. Cox]. The Piccadilly Murder, William Collins, 1929, first edition, original blue cloth printed in black, ?later dust-jacket priced 3/6--Marsh, Ngaio. A Man lay Dead, Geoffrey Bles, 1934, first edition of the first roderick alleyn mystery, original cloth, ?later issue dust-jacket priced 2/6; another copy, without jacket--Innes, Michael. Stop Press, Victor Gollancz, 1939, original cloth, ? later issue dust-jacket priced 8/6; Hamlet, Revenge!, Gollancz, 1937, original cloth; 8vo (5)

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700 – 1,000 GBP
203

Du Maurier, Daphne. , Rebecca. Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938

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800 – 1,200 GBP
204

Fleming, Ian., Two works:

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5,000 – 7,000 GBP
205

Fantasy Poets--Larkin, Philip--Thom Gunn et al., A complete set of 'The Fantasy Poets' series. Swinford [Oxfordshire]: The Fantasy Press, [1952]-57

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
206

# - Fowles, John.,

important series of over 120 letters and cards, to his later companion elena van lieshout ("Dear Elaine", "Dear Yapyap", "Dear Small Person", "Sweet Leni", etc.), comprising:

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20,000 – 30,000 GBP
207

Golding, William. , Lord of the Flies. Faber and Faber, 1954

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5,000 – 7,000 GBP
208

Graves, Robert.,

I, Claudius. Arthur Barker, 1934

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1,500 – 2,500 GBP
209

Graves, Robert., Goodbye to all That. Jonathan Cape, 1929

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
210

# - Hartley, L.P. , Series of 15 autograph letters signed ("Leslie Hartley" and "Leslie"), to the literary critic Giacomo Antonini

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800 – 1,200 GBP
211

# - Mew, Charlotte--Housman, A.E., Autograph letter signed by Housman, to Sydney Cockerell, about Charlotte Mew

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
212

Housman, A.E.,

A Shropshire Lad. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co. Ltd, 1896

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800 – 1,200 GBP
213

# - Hudson, W.H. , Collection of about 300 autograph letters and postcards, to Morley Roberts

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18,000 – 22,000 GBP
214

# - Hudson, William Henry., Collection of 125 letters, to Margaret Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak

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12,000 – 15,000 GBP
215

# - Hudson, W.H. ,

Manuscript of his book "A Hind in Richmond Park" and other material, comprising:

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10,000 – 15,000 GBP
216

# - Joyce, James.,

Highly important annotated typescripts from the third chapter of the second book of Finnegans Wake


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100,000 – 150,000 GBP
217

Joyce, James., Ulysses. Paris: John Rodker for (London:) the Egoist Press, 1922

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
218

# - Lee, Laurie--,

Portrait of Laurie Lee by Herbert Holt

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
219

Lewis, Wyndham.,

A collection of 16 volumes comprising:

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1,500 – 2,500 GBP
220

Mansfield, Katherine., The Garden Party and other stories. Constable & Company Limited, 1922

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
221

[Nabokov, Vladimir.] Nabokoff-Sirin, Vladimir. , Camera Obscura. [translated from the Russian by Winifred Roy], John Long, [1936]

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9,000 – 12,000 GBP
222

Prokosch, Frederic.

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Two of his own works printed by him:

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
223

# - Sackville-West, Vita.,

A remarkable series of over 150 autograph letters signed by Vita to her friend and literary aspirant, Margaret Howard

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18,000 – 22,000 GBP
224

Spender, Stephen.

, Three works by him, printed by Frederic Prokosch:

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
225

Synge, J.M., The Playboy of the Western World. A Comedy in Three Acts. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., 1907

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750 – 1,000 GBP
226

Thomas, Dylan., Two works printed b Frederic Prokosch:

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1,200 – 1,800 GBP
227

# - Thomas, Dylan.,

Autograph letter signed, to the poet and editor of the periodical Wales, Keidrych Rhys

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2,500 – 3,500 GBP
228

Yeats, W.B., Two American editions:

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
229

Yeats, W.B.--Yeats, Jack B.--Masefield, John et al., A Broad Sheet. Elkin Mathews, January - December 1903

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4,000 – 6,000 GBP
230

Yeats, W.B.

, Four first editions:

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1,500 – 2,500 GBP
231

Yeats, W.B., The King's Threshold: and On Baile's Strand: Being Volume Three of Plays for an Irish Theatre. A.H. Bullen, 1904

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2,000 – 3,000 GBP
232

Yeats, W.B.

, The King's Threshold. A Play in Verse. New York: Printed for Private Circulation, 1904

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1,800 – 2,200 GBP
233

Yeats, W.B., On Baile's Strand. A.H. Bullen, 1907

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
234

Yeats, W.B., Two first editions:

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
235

Yeats, W.B., The Hour-Glass: a Morality. A.H. Bullen, 1907

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
236

Yeats, W.B., Deirdre. Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Head Press, 1911

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
238

Yeats, W.B.,

Eight Poems. By. W. B. Yeats. Transcribed by Edward Pay. London: Morland Press, Ltd., for "Form", 1916

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
239

Yeats, W.B.
, Dramatis Personae, 1896-1902. Estrangement. The Death of Synge. The Bounty of Sweden. Macmillan & Co, 1936

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1,200 – 1,500 GBP
240

Yeats, W.B., Five special American limited editions, all signed by yeats:

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3,000 – 5,000 GBP
241

Yeats, W.B., Two Poems. New Haven, 1932 [? actually Paris, ? late 1960s]

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
242

Yeats, W.B., Fragments. New Haven, 1933 [? actually Paris, ? late 1960s]

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800 – 1,200 GBP
243

Yeats, W.B., Leda and the Swan. Florence: privately printed, Christmas [1937]

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1,500 – 2,000 GBP
244

Yeats, W.B., The Choice. New Haven, 1933 [? actually Paris, ? late 1960s]

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
245

Yeats, W.B., Death. New Haven, 1932 [? actually Paris, ? late 1960s]

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1,000 – 1,500 GBP
246

Kelmscott Press., A collection of four volumes, comprising:

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2,500 – 3,000 GBP
247

Kelmscott Press., A collection of five volumes, comprising:

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2,500 – 3,000 GBP
248

Kelmscott Press-Shakespeare, William., The Poems of William Shakespeare. Kelmscott Press, 1893

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4,000 – 6,000 GBP
249

Gogmagog Press.,

a complete collection of books published by the gogmagog press and the gogmagog photocopy library, comprising

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25,000 – 30,000 GBP
250

Whittington Press.,

a fine and extensive collection of whittington press books

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12,000 – 16,000 GBP
251

Cobden-Sanderson, T.J.--Wordsworth, William., Poems of Wordsworth. Chosen and edited by Matthew Arnold. Macmillan and Co., 1879

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7,000 – 10,000 GBP
252

# - Attwell, Mabel Lucie., Four illustrations, comprising

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2,000 – 2,500 GBP
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