Beschreibung:

ENRICO CARUSO (1873-1921); WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL (1874-1965); THEODORE ROOSEVELT (1858-1919); W.G. GRACE (1848-1915); LINLEY SAMBOURNE (1844-1910); & OTHERS A collection of approximately 200 signed portrait photographs, cut signatures and autograph letters by a variety of 19th and early 20th century personalities, in an album of 59 leaves, bound in green calf (damaged, some leaves disbound), including: THEATRE, approximately 85 signed portrait postcards and cut signatures of theatrical and music hall personalities, such as Henry Lytton, Marie Tempest, George and Weedon Grossmith Gerald du Maurier, Brandon Thomas, George Robey, Harry Lauder, Fred and Ellen Terry J. Forbes Robertson, Henry Irving, Squire Bancroft and Arthur Pinero; MUSICIANS & COMPOSERS, including a signed self caricature by Enrico Caruso the cut signatures of Richard Strauss, Edvard Grieg, Fritz Kreisler, Giovanni Zenatello, Luisa Tetrazzini, musical quotations from John Phillip Sousa and Maurice Mozkowsky and signed photographic postcards of Nellie Melba, Henry J. Wood and Mark Hambourg; CRICKETERS, six signed portrait postcards of C.B. Fry, Ranjitsinhji, W. Rhodes, R. Abel, A.C. Maclaren and W.G. Grace, cut signature of Jephson; ARTISTS/ILLUSTRATORS, including an illustrated letter by Harry Furniss and a charming illustration of beetles by Linley Sambourne, also Louis Wain, E.T. Reed and Tom Browne, Dicksee, Pointer, Alma Tadema and Solomon J. Solomon; POLITICIANS, with the cut signatures of Winston S. Churchill, A.J. Balfour, H.H. Asquith and David Lloyd George, amongst others, also Americans such as Theodore Roosevelt, Howard Taft and Elihu Root; With various other cut signatures including the scientists Guglielmo Marconi and William Ramsay, writers Anthony Hope Hawkins and Israel Zangwill, Baden Powell, Louis Botha, royalty including Elizabeth of Romania and Arthur Duke of Connaught and in addition, 21 loose items including Rider Haggard and several of Australian interest.