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Manuscripts - R-Z
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[pp] 7. In a spidery hand writing in her early eighties Jean Rhys plans a spectacular 'farewell party' in the longest of these three letters to her friend the novelist Isobel English. Writing to Engli...
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75 vintage photographic cigarette cards from the late 1930s, partial sets of Modern Beauties (Series 2, 3 & 4) and Real Photographs which feature show girls, dancers and film starlets in classic '...
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21x28cm An original felt pen and collage image of a portal with three figures of astronauts approaching from the foreground, signed and titled by the sci-fi artist William Rotsler. The image is on pap...
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(55x64cm) Ralph Steadman's poster designed for the bookies Joe Coral, dramatically inscribed to the Paris-based writer and bibliophile: 'For John Baxter from Ralph Steadman.' The poster is very good w...
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ff 172 Typescript catalogue of the books collected by the Reverend Honyel Gough Rosedale (1863-1928) compiled, presumably by his son, the W.O.P. Rosedale. Card wrappers, chipped, manuscript title with...
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Birth control pioneer and sexologist Marie Stopes's personally curated archive of her Scottish Carmichael forebears including a portrait in oils of her mother the women's rights campaigner Charlotte C...
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Carved oak taken from Shakespeare’s birthplace during the restoration of 1858 which followed the building’s purchase for the nation, with a presentation inscription written by the Stratford carver...
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![British Butterflies Indices [Manuscript]](/img/products/britishbutterfl234355160-thumb.jpg) |
Folio sized manuscript attempting to collate the indexes of Westwood, Monis and Goodwin’s butterfly studies. Worn half calf over marbled boards, morocco spine label and faded paper label with nu...
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![British Military History [manuscript & maps]](/img/products/militaryhistory396265374-thumb.jpg) |
[ff] 62; 12 maps, c15,000 words. Finely illustrated late nineteenth century foolscap-sized military history manuscript by an officer in training, with tipped in maps and diagrams. Quarter red cloth, n...
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Gassed 'Tommies'; improvised cemeteries, and airraids: the journal of a censorious young woman who nurse in northern France during Passchendaele in the summer of 1917. Small octavo lined notebook b...
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Three inscribed supper menus for Winston Churchill's Parliamentary Private Secretary, Frederick Whyte, MP for Perth from 1910-1918, later the first President of the Central Legislative Assembly of Bri...
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![Footbridge to Enchantment [author's typescript]](/img/products/footbridgetoenc204441906-thumb.jpg) |
[ff] 4 ff 139. Full length authorial typescript of Tranter's country notebook with a manuscript title page. Typed by Tranter on the rectos of 143 leaves with a title page in which the author has missp...
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Manuscript letter from Emilia von Sachsen, the subject of a Lucas Cranach portrait and third wife of Margrave George the Pious of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Written on the first and last pages of a four pag...
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Archive of letters, photographs, drawings, published books and articles of Percy A Wells (1867-1956), a cabinet maker and follower of William Morris, who lectured, taught and wrote extensively during ...
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Feminist campaigner and scientist Marie Stopes's marked-up dance card and collection of 49 Christmas cards sent to by relatives and friends including her closest school pal the future theosophist and ...
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![Memorials of the Family of Skene [manuscript]](/img/products/memorialsofthef115203192-thumb.jpg) |
William Forbes Skene's personal research collection, compiled for inclusion or reference purposes during the writing of Memorials of the Family of Skene of Skene which was published by The Spalding Cl...
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pp 20 & blanks. A most original piece of life writing: the autobiography of an early motoring fanatic told exclusively through the cars that he owned and drove from 1913 to 1960. This highly origi...
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pp 40 & 100 blanks. Manuscript recipe book owned by the Liverpool abolitionist and historian William Roscoe whose recipes were entered into the book a generation after his death, probably by one o...
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![Mrs Wilson's [Actual] Diary](/img/products/mrswilsonsactua21731184-thumb.jpg) |
Diary of Mary Wilson, wife of Harold Wilson, then Leader of the Opposition who became Prime Minister again the following year. Pre-printed diary, one double spread per week. 'M Wilson 5 Lord North St ...
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[pp] 168; 178 Substantial and scholarly notes on Shakespeare's plays, their publishing and performance history, together with textual analysis written by one of two inaugural professors at University ...
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10x9cm An original felt pen picture of a spacecraft, complete with crew member in a protruding bubble, signed by the sci-fi artist William Rotsler. The image is on a piece of artist's board with a cli...
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(12.5x19.5cm) Original'Rough' depicting New York gangsters and hustlers for the jacket on the UK first of David Alexander's New York-set thriller. Gouache on card, laid down on thick black paper, clos...
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(12.5x19.5cm + 12.5x3cm) Original 'Rough' for the front panel and spine of the jacket on the UK first of a Jamaican novel featuring a slave heroine. Gouache on card, depicting the protagonist being so...
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(12.5x19.5cm) Original'Rough' for the jacket on the UK first of Californian writer Lawrence Blochman's thriller. Gouache on card, laid down on thick black paper, closely resembling but not quite ident...
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[100 photos] Substantial collection of vintage photographs of the Italian-American conductor, Arturo Toscanini. In a variety of formats, many of the photographs with press stamps and annotations to th...
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A folio-sized, folding sheet (bifolium)which is effectively a 1790 invoice for postal charges, from John Brown, Drover, to Thomas Lister, First Lord Ribblesdale, the MP for Clitheroe. The first leaf i...
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[pp]66 (poultry); [pp]46 (colour theory); [pp]57 (legal) Manuscript notebook by a committed poultry breeder, reader and customer of Darwin's poulterer and dealer in live birds, John Baily, with a lett...
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Three glistening illustrations in their final, published versions by the creator of Pugwash which appeared in his 1973 book, Pugwash in the Pacific. Each of the three gouaches has been laid down on...
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ff [4] 166, c60,000 words. A lively and detailed manuscript memoir of a long trip to England by a gifted young Philadelphia physician and, later, fish culturist John H Slack (1834-1874) including a pu...
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A handmade album of tinted views of Cumbria and Scotland from the mid-victorian period. The compiler has handsewn two embossed sheets of card with decorative pink ribbon flourishes to form the binding...
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pp 62 Unpublished manuscript study of the development and construction of the Spritsail Thames sailing barge. Small folio bound in quarter grey buckram over blue cloth, hand-lettered in white to the u...
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Touchingly sincere letter to the Editor of Gay News, thanking him for the 'your presentation of Noctures in your paper. The illustration of the long figure in the piazza certainly captures the spirit ...
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Original monochrome watercolour of an Australian machine gun company in action at Gallipoli or on the western Front, published in The War Budget magazine. 250x360mm. Watercolour on board, rounded ...
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An early edition of W Riley's almost forgotten classic Yorkshire novel, Windyridge, together with an album of original postcard sized photographs from the early 1920s showing the locations in and arou...
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