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All auctions / Books, Maps & Manuscripts / Lot 267 - A collection of hand-written commemorative
A collection of hand-written commemorative sketchbooks/journals, to include a presentation volume dedicated to Reverend Prebendary H.A. Mason and his wife from his parishioners at St Stephen's in Poplar on the occasion of his move to St Aphege's church in the City in 1915, thanking him for his 21 years of service and 11 years as Rural Dean of Poplar, the gilt-edged pages list his achievements and the names of his flock, with colour hand-drawn illustrated title page, bound in gilt-tooled blue leatherette, approx 20.5 x 17cm; a 'visitors book' of German teacher Mrs Charlotte Easton, to include signatures, notes of thanks, poems and drawings, the early entries dated 1934-1938 and mentioning trips to the Rhineland, many pages referencing German language courses at Brighton (Tech College) for groups of soldiers and ATS members during WWII, to include American, Australian and Canadian forces, with two newspaper clippings for 1976 deaths in Germany (possibly her mother showing birth name of Haseloff), the last entry being for 1960; a late Victorian friends autograph album belonging to Nora Walton Hiam of The Wren's Nest, Astwood Back, Redditch, containing notes, poems, photographs and drawings from her friends and visitors mostly dating from 1898 to 1901, to include some feminist odes 'They talk about a woman's sphere as though it had a limit...', in gilt-tooled red leatherette (front board detached); a hand-written and illustrated volume 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', dated 1860, 24 pages bound in gilt-tooled red leatherette; a Happy Thoughts Birthday Book diary, each page with selected quotes and extracts from Mr Punch edited by Rosie Burnard, Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London 1888, illustrated portrait frontispiece of Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (with only a couple of pencil entries), bound in gilt-tooled pictorial red cloth; an empty Victorian ledger book, gilt-tooled lined pages, bound in gilt-tooled green calf with brass locking clasp (armorial initialled hand-painted emblem to first page but no further entries); and a Rimini Arabesque style gilt-tooled red leather wallet
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Darren Almond: "Fullmoon". Edition no. 1–60 with signed print Porto
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