AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION]. A collection of approximately sixty-two autograph letters signed, eight incomplete or fragmentary letters and documents, one fair copy manuscript, fifteen cut signatures, seven engraved portraits, and two envelopes, virtually all of nineteenth-century British authors, bound in a 4to album, tan buckram. The majority of the letters, nearly all 8vo-4to , are of literary content or have literary reference; a number have annotations by Alaric Watts, editior of the Literary Souvenir . Includes autograph letters signed of: Sir Walter Scott (two, including one to Charles Till re illustrations for Waverly, 1 p., 4to ), Frederick Marryat G.P.R. James, Washington Irving ( final page only, 4to, signed with initials, mentioning Byron), Thomas Campbell (to the publisher Henry Colburn), Charlotte Bury, Leigh Hunt, Harriet Martineau (third person), Maria Edgeworth (third person to Henry Colburn referring to Mrs. Catherine Gore), Charles Apperley, Letitia Landon (to Henry Colburn, 3pp., 8vo ), George Croly (to Henry Colburn, 2 pp., 8vo ), Mary Russell Mitford (to Mary? Howitt, 3 pp., 8vo ), Thomas Hood (to Alaric Watts), B.W. Proctor (regarding illustrations), Edward Bulwer-Lytton ( 4pp., 8vo , discussing three of his novels), Thomas Moore (two), Charles Maturin (to Alaric Watts, 2 pp., 4to, re his play Fredolfo ), Charles Dickens (to Edward William Beal, 1 p., 8vo , 1865, social), Theodore Hook, Frances Trollope (a note), William Henry Ainsworth (to Alaric Watts, 3 pp., 8vo ), Allan Cunningham, Joanna Baillie, Mary Howitt, Thomas Hughes ( 1 p., 8vo, social), Anna Maria Porter, Jane Porter ( 4 pp., 4to, a few tears, re her brother's painting), George Robert Gleig, the Earl of Middlesex ( 2 pp., 4to , 4 June 1752, on military matters), Joseph Wolff (to Sir Patrick Roos, 2 pp., 4to, listing his travels, with printed prospectus), Louis Philippe (King of France, response to a charity), Marie Amelie (Queen of France, response to a charity). Also included are a cut signature with date of William Wordsworth and an autograph manuscript signed (fair copy, 1 p., 4to ) by William Howitt of a poem. The album is accompanied by a set index cards of its contents. (Milne)
AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION]. A collection of approximately sixty-two autograph letters signed, eight incomplete or fragmentary letters and documents, one fair copy manuscript, fifteen cut signatures, seven engraved portraits, and two envelopes, virtually all of nineteenth-century British authors, bound in a 4to album, tan buckram. The majority of the letters, nearly all 8vo-4to , are of literary content or have literary reference; a number have annotations by Alaric Watts, editior of the Literary Souvenir . Includes autograph letters signed of: Sir Walter Scott (two, including one to Charles Till re illustrations for Waverly, 1 p., 4to ), Frederick Marryat G.P.R. James, Washington Irving ( final page only, 4to, signed with initials, mentioning Byron), Thomas Campbell (to the publisher Henry Colburn), Charlotte Bury, Leigh Hunt, Harriet Martineau (third person), Maria Edgeworth (third person to Henry Colburn referring to Mrs. Catherine Gore), Charles Apperley, Letitia Landon (to Henry Colburn, 3pp., 8vo ), George Croly (to Henry Colburn, 2 pp., 8vo ), Mary Russell Mitford (to Mary? Howitt, 3 pp., 8vo ), Thomas Hood (to Alaric Watts), B.W. Proctor (regarding illustrations), Edward Bulwer-Lytton ( 4pp., 8vo , discussing three of his novels), Thomas Moore (two), Charles Maturin (to Alaric Watts, 2 pp., 4to, re his play Fredolfo ), Charles Dickens (to Edward William Beal, 1 p., 8vo , 1865, social), Theodore Hook, Frances Trollope (a note), William Henry Ainsworth (to Alaric Watts, 3 pp., 8vo ), Allan Cunningham, Joanna Baillie, Mary Howitt, Thomas Hughes ( 1 p., 8vo, social), Anna Maria Porter, Jane Porter ( 4 pp., 4to, a few tears, re her brother's painting), George Robert Gleig, the Earl of Middlesex ( 2 pp., 4to , 4 June 1752, on military matters), Joseph Wolff (to Sir Patrick Roos, 2 pp., 4to, listing his travels, with printed prospectus), Louis Philippe (King of France, response to a charity), Marie Amelie (Queen of France, response to a charity). Also included are a cut signature with date of William Wordsworth and an autograph manuscript signed (fair copy, 1 p., 4to ) by William Howitt of a poem. The album is accompanied by a set index cards of its contents. (Milne)
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