"Autographs of the Living and of the Dead", comprising letters collected by W. Wright in the 1860s (vols.i and iii only), including Rajah Brooke of Sarawak (1865), Thomas Carlyle ("...You shall have, for that object, as many Autographs as you like..."), W.S. Landor, J.S. Mill (signature), Bazalgette (from the Engineer's Department), Paxton (presentation signature), Paul Du Chaillu, A.H. Layard, Thomas Hughes, Ruskin, Cipriani Potter, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Wellington, Joseph Mazzini (quotation), and others; and a good selection of artists' letters, many to Abraham Cooper RA, with examples by Millais, Wilkie, Linnell, Maclise, Roberts, Stanfield, E.H. Bailey (sculptor of Nelson, headed "To Messrs Cooper Landseer & Frith"), George Cruikshank Woolner and J.F. Lewis, in 2 volumes, some signatures cut and re-attached to their letters, boards, loose, 8vo
"Autographs of the Living and of the Dead", comprising letters collected by W. Wright in the 1860s (vols.i and iii only), including Rajah Brooke of Sarawak (1865), Thomas Carlyle ("...You shall have, for that object, as many Autographs as you like..."), W.S. Landor, J.S. Mill (signature), Bazalgette (from the Engineer's Department), Paxton (presentation signature), Paul Du Chaillu, A.H. Layard, Thomas Hughes, Ruskin, Cipriani Potter, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Wellington, Joseph Mazzini (quotation), and others; and a good selection of artists' letters, many to Abraham Cooper RA, with examples by Millais, Wilkie, Linnell, Maclise, Roberts, Stanfield, E.H. Bailey (sculptor of Nelson, headed "To Messrs Cooper Landseer & Frith"), George Cruikshank Woolner and J.F. Lewis, in 2 volumes, some signatures cut and re-attached to their letters, boards, loose, 8vo
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