Autograph Albums.- Miscellaneous 19th-20th century

Four autograph albums, comprising:

An album dated 1868 (leather bound, spine lost, 19cm x 22 cm, approx.100pp; some removals evident) of c.19th laid in / pasted in envelope covers, clipped autographs etc, to include: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (physician & women’s rights campaigner (as Elizabeth Garrett)) 1836-1917); Bernard Burke (king of Arms); John Couch Adams (astronomer, 1819-1892); William Gladstone (prime minister, 1809-1898); Samuel Plimsoll (reformer, 1824-1898); Anne Thackeray Ritchie (writer, 1837-1919) George Cruikshank (illustrator, 1792-1878); Thomas Hughes (writer, etc 1822-1896); Charles Kingsley (writer, 1819-1875); Lords Lansdowne, Clarendon, Brougham, Granville, Fitzwilliam, Macauley, Salisbury, Grey, Leveson-Gower, Kimberley, Dukes of Richmond, Argyll, Rutland, Teck, Archbishop of Canterbury, Duke of Clarence (King William IV), Prince William Frederick; and more, etc etc (qty)

An album (approx. 75pp, no covers, some removals evident, 23cm x 28cm) of mid-c.20th letters sent to Frederick Cowles, Chief Librarian at Pendlebury, to include literary figures etc: Beatric Kean Seymour (1886-1955); Arthur Valentine ("Archibald Peachey", 1876-1961); Gabrielle Long ("Marjorie Bowen", 1885-1952); Professor C.E.M. Joad (1891-1953); Sylvia Lynd (1888-1952); Cecil Roberts (1892-1976); Walter Greenwood (1903-1974); Flora Klickmann (1867-1958); Gerald Gould (1885-1936); J.J. Bell (1871-1934); Owen Rutter (1889-1944); Olive Katherine Parr (“Beatrice Chase”, novelist, 1874-1955); etc, etc (qty)

A large album dated 1879 (25cm x 35 cm, cloth covered, approx. 100 pages, some removals evident) of c.19th laid in / pasted in envelope covers, clipped autographs etc, to include: 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852); Charles Kingsley (writer, 1819-1875);; Max Mueller (orientalist, 1823-1900); Agnes Giberne (novelist and scientific writer 1845- 1939). Ernst Pauer (pianist, composer, 1826-1905). William Henry Hadow (educational reformer, musicologist, composer, 1859-1937) Charlotte Yonge (novelist, 1823-1901); Rev. Thomas Teignmouth Shore (priest & writer, fl. 1880s), Sir William Jenner (physician to Queen Victoria, 1815-1898); Charles Reade (writer, 1814-1884); Frances Minto Elliot (writer, 1820–1898) Sir William James Erasmus Wilson (surgeon, 1809-1884), Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, Lord Wantage, (soldier, politician and philanthropist; 1832-1901); Sir John Stainer (composer, 1840-1901): Lord Wolseley (general, 1833-1913); Sir George Smart (musician, 1776-1867); Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine (Bacteriologist, 1860-1930); Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy (businessman and philanthropist, 1851-1898) Edward James Mortimer Collins (novelist, journalist and poet, 1827-1876); Constance Frederica "Eka" Gordon-Cumming (artist & writer, 1837-1924); Ernst Jedliczka (pianist and critic, 1855- 1904); Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishops of Oxford, Exeter, St David’s, Jamaica, Chester, etc, etc (qty)

A large album (undated, 23cm x 38cm, leather bound, binding loose, covers marked and bowed, some removals evident, c.30-40 pp) mostly empty, good watermarked paper pages, pasted in a letter from Admiral Prince Victor Ferdinand Franz Eugen Gustaf Adolf Constantin Friedrich of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, (Royal Navy officer and sculptor) etc.

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