Bloomsbury Auctions

Lot 165
165. Oxfordshire Auction Broadsides.- la n d a n d p r o p e rt y
b r o a d S i d e S, including: Aynhoe, Fritwell, Bicester, Launton, Minety,
Bicester, Woodstock, Great Wigston, Tunbridge Wells (Sussex),
Stroud, Islip, Murcott and Fencott, Sandford St. Martin, Water Hall
- St. Aldate’s Oxford, Eaast Hagborne, Great & Little Hampton
(Worcestershire), Kent... Estate Known as “Vale Mascal” and
others, c. 50 broadsides, folds, a few tears, v.s., v.d., most printed in
Bicester, [nineteenth century]. £150 - £200
Lot 166
166. Oxfordshire Auction Broadsides.- la n d a n d p r o p e rt y
b r o a d S i d e S, including: Burford, Steeple Aston & Lower Heyford,
Summertown (near Oxford), Hethe, Cleveley Mill, Chesterton
(near Bicester), Brookend (Three Miles from Moreton-in-the-
Marsh and Five from Chipping Norton), Islip, Souldern (Midway
Between Banbury & Bicester), Hook Norton, (Marsh Gibbon
(Bucks), Tingewick (near Buckingham), The Coldham Estate
(Cambridgeshire), c. 40 broadsides, folds, a few tears, v.s., v.d.,
most printed in Bicester, nineteenth century - 1921. £150 - £200
167. Victoria (Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, Empress of India, 1819-1901) Co m m iS S i o n a p p o i n t i n g
fr a n C i S Sut h e r l a n d Cap ta i n o f a tr o o p in t h e SeC o n d reg i m e n t
o f dr a g o o n S, D.s. “Victoria” and 2 others, printed document with
manuscript insertions, paper seal, folds, a few small holes, small
tear repaired with tape, browned, some marks, 305 x 405mm.,
Windsor, 16th February 1855. £100 - £150
168. Cruikshank (George, graphic artist, 1792-1878) 2 au t o g r a p h
le t t e r S S i g n e d to fr a n C i S dr a p e r, Picture Frame Manufacturer, of
110 Albany Street, Regents Park, 5pp., 8vo, 48 Mornington Place
& n.p., 29th December 1859 & 2nd December 1871, on financial
difficulties, “I am very sorry I have not been able to comply with
yr. wishes but when I tell you that two gentlemen for whom I have
been working for some months are both dead... When I add that one
Gentm who is indebted to me has become insane - and that another
has got into a lawsuit with his family and from whom I cannot get
a shilling you will see that altogether I am put very much about
at present”, and their mutual interest in teetotalism, “I have read
with much pleasure your pamphlet entitled “The Pledge” and most
sincerely hope it will have a large circulation”, folds, a few tears
starting along folds; and a pencil drawing by Barber of Cruikshank,
“from memory”, 12th November 1906 (3). £150 - £200
*** Provenance: Francis Draper (1832 - c. 1920s), picture frame
manufacturer, writer of temperance pamphlets; and thence by
descent.
169. Gray (David, poet, 1838-61) au t o g r a p h le t t e r to Jo h n
we S t l a n d-ma rt o n, poet, 3pp., 8vo, 66 Upper Stamford Street,
24th June 1860, asking him for assistance with his rent because
his funds are exhausted and he has “to pass thro’ another week
of sickness and indisposition” before he returns to Scotland and
stating that he thinks Monckton Milnes will assist him, folds,
slightly browned. £150 - £200
*** Letters by Gray are scarce.
170. Letters & Cut signatures.- al b u m, C u t S i g n at u r e S,
including: Queen Victoria, Edward Elgar, Arthur Chevalier, Robert
Napier, Ouida, Frank Brangwyn, Rider Haggard, T.H. Huxley,
Harrison Ainsworth, Daniel Maclise, Tom Hood, Francis Pelham,
Sir Frederick Leighton, Thomas Arnold, C a r d S a n d l e t t e r S,
including: Henry Arthur Jones, Lord Birkenhead (torn with loss),
Henry S. Northcote (on 11, Downing Street headed notepaper),
John Neville Maskelyne (magician), v.s., v.d., [nineteenth century]
(c. 50 pieces). £200 - £300
171. Cobbe (Frances Power, writer and campaigner for
women’s rights, 1822-1904) 2 au t o g r a p h le t t e r S S i g n e d to mr S.
en g l e f i e l d, 5pp. & envelopes, 8vo, 6th & 8th March 1866, she is
delighted that she is staying longer in London, “I’m sure it will do
you good,” and an invitation to tea with Mrs. Duncan Stewart, folds;
and 5 other pieces, including a cut signature of Maria Edgeworth,
a card signed by Sir Thomas Lawrence and A.Ls.s. of the Duke
of Hamilton, Edward Lytton Bulwer etc., v.s., v.d. (10 pieces).
£120 - £180
172. Disraeli (Benjamin, first Earl, statesman and author,
1804-81) au t o g r a p h le t t e r S i g n e d “d” to r.b. ha rv e y, 7pp. &
envelope, 8vo, Chancellor of the Exchequer notepaper, 29th July
1866, relating to the Conservative Registration Committee being
put “at last, into complete order”, and concerning the collection of
arrears, folds; and an A.L.s. from Gladstone, 8vo (2). £150 - £200
173. George Washington.- Laugham (George) ge o r g e
wa S h i n g t o n [a bi o g r a p h y], manuscript, 46pp., on rectos only,
slightly browned, original wrappers, soiled, edges with tears, folio,
8th June 1868. £80 - £120
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