Autograph Album.- Miscellaneous 19th-20th century

Autograph album featuring a good selection of mainly late c.19th and early c.20th laid in / pasted in letters, clipped autographs etc of various prominent personalities etc, to include: King George V or VI – reverse / blotted signatures (2); David Wark (DW) Griffith (1875-1948, film director); David Lloyd George (1863-1945, Prime Minister); Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944, architect); James Keir Hardie (1856-1915, founder of the Labour Party); Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee (1883-1967, Prime Minister); Basil Dean (1888-1978, actor); Sir William Goscombe John (1860 -1952, sculptor); Fortunino Matania (1881-1963, painter); Sir Thomas Sopwith (1888-1989, aviation pioneer); Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin (1866-1941, automotive designer and builder); Sir Adrian Boult (1889-1983, conductor); Sir Harry Lauder (1870-1950, actor); Major-General Sir Lee Stack (1868-1924, Governor-General of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan); General William Rose Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst (1819-1876, Commander-in-Chief of India); Frederick Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby (1867-1935, soldier & courtier); Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram (1873-1960, soldier & Courtier); Sir John Fortescue (1859-1933, Royal Librarian and Archivist at Windsor Castle); Captain Arthur Gerald FitzGerald (1875–1916, Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to Field Marshal Lord Kitchener); Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty (1847-1918, Garter King of Arms); Sir Kingsley Wood (1881-1943, politician); Group Captain Sir Louis Leisler Greig (1880-1953, courtier and friend of King George VI); Amanollah Jahanbani (1895-1974, senior general of Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran); Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur John Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham (1849-1931, Private Secretary to Queen Victoria and George V); Sir Frank Baines (1877–1933) architect in charge of Royal Palaces from 1920 to 1927; Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960 author, poet and dramatist; Francis Brett Young (1884-1954, novelist, poet, playwright, composer); Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs Humphrey Ward, 1851-1920, novelist); William Le Queux (1864-1927, journalist and writer); Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924, priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar); Sir Philip Gibbs (1877-1962, journalist and author); William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (1879-1963, politician): General Sir Ivo Lucius Beresford Vesey (1876-1975); James Henry Thomas (1874-1949) and William Crooks (1852-1921) Trade unionists, Henry William Forster, 1st Baron Forster (1866-1936, Governor-General of Australia); George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon (1859-1925, Viceroy of India etc.); William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851-1925, industrialist, philanthropist, and politician); Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953, writer); Sir Oliver Lodge (1851-1940, physicist and electrical engineer); Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (1885-1959, chemist & inventor); Sir Harold Nicolson (1886-1968, politician, writer, broadcaster & gardener); Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (1891-1953, philosopher, author, teacher and broadcasting personality); Field Marshal Francis Wallace Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell (1841-1925), Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson (1854-1935); Sir Frederic George Kenyon (1863-1952, palaeographer, biblical and classical scholar); Sir Basil Thomson (1861-1939, head of Metropolitan Police CID); Joseph Devlin (1871-1934 journalist & politician); Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1986, Glubb Pasha); Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker (1877-1930); Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859-1935, Governor-General of New Zealand); Major-General Sir Desmond Dykes Tynte O'Callaghan. (1843-1931); Major-General Charles John Sackville-West, 4th Baron Sackville (1870-1962) Sir Edward Patrick Morris, 1st Baron Morris (1859-1935, Prime Minister of Newfoundland; Sir Nathan Meyer Rothschild (1st Baron Rothschild, 1840-1915) as Chairman of the Council of the British Red Cross Society (BRCS); Cecil William Norton, 1st Baron Rathcreedan (1850-1930, politician); Admiral Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford, (1846-1919); Horatio Bottomley (1860-1933, financier, journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor, swindler, and MP); Lady Nancy Astor (1879-1964, politician); Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862-1933); Arthur Henderson (1863-1935, politician and Nobel Prize laureate); Hugh Gaitskell (1906 – 1963, Leader of the Labour Party); Emmanuel Shinwell (1884-1986, politician); Constance Boyle (1865-1943, journalist, campaigner for women's suffrage and women's rights, charity and welfare worker, and novelist); George Lansbury (1859 -1940 Labour Party leader); William Maxwell Aitken,1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879 -1964); Augustine Birrell (1850-1933); Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden (1864-1937, Chancelor of the Exchequer); Jan Wszelaki (1894-1965, diplomat and scholar); Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, (1871-1947); General Hastings Lionel "Pug" Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887-1965); Sir Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937, statesman, Nobel Peace Prize laureate); etc etc; Lords: Esher, Lucan, Ruthven, Cromer, Gainford, Harcourt, Glenconner, Hardwicke, Bandon, Londesborough, Sydenham, Kensington, Essex: Radnor, Dartmouth, devon, Leconfield, Gosford, Harewood, Kilmorey, Armaghdale, Londonderry, Desborough, Leicester, Massereene and Ferrard; St David’s, Jersey, Scarborough, Leigh, Monteagle, Furness, Percy, Dawson; Hambledon; The McGillycuddy of the Reeks; etc; Dukes: Abercorn, Rutland, Norfolk, Richmond & Gordon, Atholl, Portland, Argyll, Marlborough, Buccleuch & Queensbury, Wellington, etc; Archbishops: Canterbury, Armagh, York; Bishops: Clonfert, Chester, Ripon, Kensington, Norwich, Hereford, Reading, Peterborough, Ely, Manchester, Southwark, Croydon, etc; A selection of tipped in wartime banknotes and counterfeits (French, Italian, Japanese & German, qty); British World War I Special Orders of the Day, 1917, tipped in (2): a printed notice “Caution to Growers and Winders of Wool” of 1862, laid in; a typed recipe “Smoke Balls, to drive men from between the decks…by Sir Richard Threlfall” (Sir Richard Threlfall (1861-1932) was an English chemist and engineer who made important contributions to military science during World War I) tipped in; blue cloth covered, the front cover with a gilt embossed design incorporating the arms of the London Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead (in operation 1900-1965), some removals and excisions evident from pages, binding of page block very loose, 4to.