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RH Tawney made a lasting impact promoting equality through the restructuring and democratising of higher education. For more than forty years, from 1905 to 1948, he served on the Workers' Educational Association executive, holding the offices of Vice-President and President. He served on the Consultative Committee of the Board of Education, the Edu… Read more…

A collection of original artefacts dating from the time of the Coup d’Etat. Collection contained within contemporary blue envelope includes: A scarce copy of the original 1848 pamphlet, ‘La Revision de la Constitution’. In green paper wrappers, interior leaves in good condition. A little foxed to earlier pages. Published in Paris by Typographie Plo… Read more…

The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure was a periodical published in London in the period 1747–1814 by John Hinton and W. Bent. This bound volume presenting 30 contemporary engravings featured in the magazine represents its interests in Architecture, Travels, Voyages, History, Geography and Mechanics. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Contemporary lan… Read more…

A hand-crafted from paper, fold out Union flag and attached written statement which together explain the significance of the 1801 Act of Union which united and created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Divided into its component parts this little piece of history represents the red cross of St George, the white saltire of St Andrew a… Read more…

A bound volume of pamphlets, 2 alluding to current affairs, belonging to Sir Stafford Northcote, one of them inscribed to him by the writer Augustus Brackenbury. Northcote was a prominent late nineteenth century politician who spent nine years as Tory leader in the House of Commons from 1876 to 1885, almost a forgotten Tory leader in spite of the c… Read more…

Todmorden Botanical Society was formed in 1852 and this catalogue opens with a list of the names of officers for 1867 including the President, Mr. Abraham Stansfield Senr, and Vice President Mr. John Nowell. Included is a list of the society’s rules as decreed at its formation in 1852, a list of current members and an extensive catalogue of the c.5… Read more…

A rare collection of original blueprints and engineering diagrams from Croft Engineering Ltd in Thornbury, Bradford depicting the manufacturing designs for the WW2 British General Purpose HE 500 lb and 1000 lb aircraft bombs and the General Purpose HE 1000 lb MC aircraft bomb. Also included is a photograph album of the visit of the Princess Royal,… Read more…

Richly varied photo album depicting student life at Mills College in Oakland shortly after it was chartered as the first women’s college west of the Rockies. Filled with rewardingly large-format photographs, the overriding impression is of a group of young women liberated from parents and family and allowed to express themselves in an environment o… Read more…

Malcolm Montgomery (1855-1939) was an alumni of and for many years the principal classical coach in Trinity College, Dublin. This collection incorporates the testimonials that he prepared and head printed when he applied to become Professor of Greek in Queens College, Galway. Described in these written testimonials and letters as ‘the most distingu… Read more…

The medallion comes in its original presentation case and is numbered 732 in a limited edition of only 1000 produced. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Dark blue solid presentation case embossed ‘Wedgwood’ in gilt with dark blue velvet base internally and cream padded lid which is slightly spotted towards hinge but overall, in very good condition. Within sits… Read more…

Son of the painter Auguste Bonheur and nephew of the painter and sculptor Rosa Bonheur, the French composer Raymond Bonheur lived in Magny les Hameaux, France. This letter addressed to him is from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Andre Gide. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Handwritten envelope and notelet within, both mounted on front and rear of… Read more…

North Yorkshire map annotated during the Great War by Lady Florence Bell, President of the North Riding of Yorkshire Red Cross, to identify military hospitals that she oversaw across north Yorkshire. The map is made up of 40 panels printed on paper, backed onto linen with cloth covered card wraps and Lady Bell’s ownership inscription on the verso o… Read more…

An extensive collection of this Kentish artist’s work in designing bookplates and greetings cards. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Black paper covered boards with brown paper covered spine in fair condition. Spine tips and edges rubbed. Corners bumped. Chafed to front and rear. Embossed ‘Scraps’ to front board. Internally gutters tender over end papers, stil… Read more…

Handwritten oath of a freeman pledging allegiance and loyalty to the Town and authorities of Northampton in southern England in the early 18th century. John Slater made his oath to the Mayor of the town, Joseph Woolston and ultimately to the monarch, Queen Anne. Famously, the Oath of a Freeman had been adopted by the Massachusetts Bay Company nearl… Read more…

Half crimson morocco boards with marbled sides in good condition. Spine rubbed. Moderate bruising to corners and edges. This binding has been used to cover part of an older book which lists Acts of Parliament relating to duties to be paid on goods, each page titled ‘49 George III. Cap.98’. The pages have been appropriated to form a new book in whic… Read more…

Written by the former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, this is the first section of a speech which he delivered - and then revised for subsequent reuse - around the time of the publication of his book-length account of ‘the creation of the State of Israel’. A lifelong and unwavering Zionist, Wilson wrote into his 1981 publication, Chariot of Is… Read more…

Last Will and Testament of a Stratford woman who owned land next to New Place, Shakespeare’s grand home in the town - and took special care in this document over the disposal of her ‘Bed, Bedstead and the Appurtenances and entire Furniture of such Bed’. Single manuscript bifolium document measuring 33x21cm with legal text on two leaves and a docket… Read more…

In verse and pictures, the cycling adventures of Hiram Jones - sent as eight weekly cards by Brown Brothers of London - to advertise the new coasting brake manufactured by the New Departure Manufacturing Company of Connecticut. Eight stiff cards (18x14cm), printed on both sides in green and black. On the recto of each is the full title which explai… Read more…

Coal mining photo album which includes images of an underground explosion and ‘Strike Volunteers’ - strike breakers? - from the miner’s strike of 1921. Kodak “Eton” Album (17.5x14.5cm) containing 35 silver gelatin prints (c7-10cm) mounted on card leaves. Generally annotated in a contemporary hand these photographs show scenes from the Staffordshire… Read more…

Broadside programme from the estate of former Python Eric Idle which he describes as marking his ‘professional comedy debut’. Directed by Steven Frears no less at the Edinburgh Festival in 1963 this was also the British premier of Miller’s surreal and only play. A single sheet (25x15cm) printed on both sides; a little browned otherwise fine. Recent… Read more…

The first games to feature the Olympic motto, the Paris games of 1924 also featured a huge marketing campaign of Luggage Labels, Poster Stamps, Stamps, Cigarette & Cigar Labels, and Posters created for the Olympiad and approved by the Olympic Committee. These fragmentary survivals include a label in the red, blue, and white of the French flag: ‘Jeu… Read more…

24 original photographs taken by the Chief Site Construction Engineer of the building of the Victoria Falls Bridge, part of Cecil Rhodes’s Cape to Cairo scheme. Professionally produced album for ‘Photographs’ bound in textured gun metal grey cloth over thick bevel-edged boards (19x16cm) On the front pastedown is written in English in red chalk: ‘Im… Read more…

Unrecorded perhaps unique surviving set of Cruikshank’s illustrations to Oliver Twist, issued by the book’s publisher as a loose, possibly promotional, set simultaneous with first publication. 20 plates (150x243mm) are loosely contained in a bifolium printed wrapper which has separated along the spine. This bears a modified version of the title pag… Read more…

Balmoral Castle menu card for a dinner, written in French, perhaps for French-speaking guests visiting the Royal palace. Small cream card embossed with the rare personal cipher of George VI and Queen Elizabeth in gilt (reserved for private use); gold edges and the menu. The text has been printed by an unknown process. August 22 1938 was the 5th bir… Read more…

Balmoral Castle ‘Programme of Pipe Music’, signed by the Balmoral Piper, Henry Forsyth. Small cream card embossed with George VI’s cipher in gilt; gold edges and the programme of music for 8th August, 1938. The text has been printed in some way but Forsyth’s signature is in his hand. August 1938 was the first Royal family gathering after the Corona… Read more…