NOT IN BL

A short catalogue of pamphlets and printed ephemera not present in the British Library Catalogue

14611. 'Chairman J. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P. (Chairman I.L.P.) [J. Keir Hardie; Independent Labour Party]: [Printed pamphlet.] Souvenir of the Welcome Home Demonstration to greet J. Keir Hardie, M.P. On his return from his World Tour. [On front wrap: Welcome Home to J. Keir Hardie M.P. from his World's Tour July 12th, 1907, to March 23rd, 1908.]

Garden City Press Limited, Letchworth, Herts. [Royal Albert Hall, London. April 5th, 1908.] Twelve unpaginated pages,19.5 x 9 cm. Stitched into printed card wraps. Printed on shiny art paper, with a full-page reproduction of a caricature from Vanity Fair, and a half-page reproduction of a cartoon from the Daily Despatch. Beginning with the lyrics of 'Annie Laurie' and ending with those of 'England, Arise', 'Sons of Labour' and 'The Red Flag', and including 'A Reminiscence and a Welcome' (three pages) and 'From Pit to Parliament' (two pages). Scarce: no copy in the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC at the National Library of Scotland. £90.00

11011. 'Scheme of Determining Bachelors in Oxford (Lent 1805)' [The Clarendon Press, Oxford University]: [Printed poster.] Ordo Baccalaureorum Determinantium. In Universitate Oxon. per Quadragesim. Ann. 1805. Collectoribus Dno Mackensie, ex Aede Christi. Dno Hudson, è Coll. Magd.

E Typographeo Clarendoniano. [1805.] On one side of a piece of laid paper, 55 x 44 cm. Good, on lightly-aged paper. 131-box table giving the tutors (and their colleges) over twelve weeks for each of eleven subjects from 'Nat. Phil.' to 'Ling.' Among the many tutors the following only in capitals: 'Ds HEWITT ex Aede Christi', 'Ds HANMER ex Aedi Christi', 'Ds JOYCE e Aul. S. Edm.', 'G. C. AGAR ed Aede Christi', 'Ds MACDONALD ex Aede Christie', 'Ds MACKENSIE ex Aede Christi', 'Ds CRAWLEY e Coll. Pemb.', 'Ds HUDSON e Coll. Magd.' and 'Ds G. BOWYER, Bart. ex Aede Christi'. Also present is Reginald Heber, later Bishop of Calcutta: 'Ds Heber e Coll. Omn. An.' An interesting piece of Oxford University ephemera. Docketed on the reverse, in a contemporary hand, 'Scheme of Determining Bachelors in Oxford (Lent 1805)'. Scarce: the only copy on COPAC held by Oxford University itself. £125.00

14361. 'T. B - l.' [nineteenth century handbill]: [Printed nineteenth-century handbill.] Copy of a curious Love Letter | From a young Gentleman in this Neighbourhood, to his Sweetheart, Miss W - , of this Town, which was found near this place yesterday morning.

Without place or date. [1830s?] 1p., 12mo. Text enclosed within a decorative border. In fair condition, on heavily aged and worn wove paper, with a couple of small holes. Printed on cheap paper, with rough untrimmed edges. Beneath the title is a poem in two columns, itself titled 'Directions for Reading it.': 'Hast thou no pity on my woes? | Dost thou at me turn up thy nose? | I'll make my declaration first, | So read straight forward and be curst. | But if thy

heart to me incline, | O! jump o'er every other line.' The twenty-four lines of the text of the letter express hatred when read in their entirety, and love when only the odd lines are read. A rare piece of ephemera, with no copies of this exact item on COPAC, and two items with similar titles, both in the National Library of Scotland. £45.00

14567. [Association of Preparatory Schools, England.]: [Printed pamphlet.] Association of Preparatory Schools. Rules. 1911.

[Association of Preparatory Schools, England.] 1911. 8pp., 12mo. Stapled and unbound. In fair condition, on aged paper, with stamps, shelf-mark and label of the Board of Education Reference Library. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC. £90.00

14362. [Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland; The Baptist Union Annuity Fund for Retired Ministers, and ministers' Widows and Orphans]: [Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland.] Printed prospectus, headed 'Baptist Union Annuity Fund.', for 'The Baptist Union Annuity Fund for Retired Ministers, and ministers' Widows and Orphans.'

Without place or date [c.1875]. 4pp., 4to. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged paper, with closed tears along a central vertical fold. The first three pages carry 32 numbered rules, on the topics: Titles; Design; Management; Membership; Subscriptions; Benefits; Repayments; Funds; Disputes; Alteration of Rules; General. The last page carries three tables (first two regarding 'Ministers' and last on 'Widows & Orphans'), headed 'Schedule of Subscriptions and Payments'. Scarce: no copy located on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat. The Times of 12 October 1875 carries a report of the passing of the resolution by 'Rev. Mr. Williams, of Accrington' founding the fund, at a session of the Union at Plymouth. £90.00

14363. [Captain Bede John Francis Bentley (1878-1939), Royal Army Service Corps, claimed inventor of the tank; Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener [Lord Kitchener] (1850-1916)]: [Offprint, 'Reprinted by kind permission of "The Morning Post."'] [on cover:] The True Story of the Tank [drophead title:] A Miscarriage of Justice. | How the Tank was devised. | Lord Kitchener's Foresight.

On cover: 'Morning Post. [London] | Wednesday, August 9 [1922].' At rear: 'Printed by St. Clements Press, Ltd., Portugal Street, Kingsway, W.C.2.' [2] + 11 + [1]pp., 12mo. Printed in black on cream paper, with the wraps printed in blue in 'Stop Press' style. In very good condition, with minor spotting from staples. Presumably printed up by Bentley himself, and taking the story of his claim to 29 March 1922, the Home Office response to his petition to the king. The text begins: 'When Earl Kitchener called in Captain Bentley, a pioneer of motor transport, to embody in actual design the famous car which became known in the war a a "Tank," he promised that his interests as an inventor would be safeguarded. | From the article which we print below, it will appear that Captain Bentley has been unable to obtain any award in connection with his invention. | Repeated attempts have in vain been made to obtain justice, and his solicitors have been refused the opportunity to proceed by Petition of Right. | Earl Kitchener is dead, but other witnesses remain who can give evidence.' Bentley's claim

against the Crown of £300,000 for the invention of the tank was dismissed in the High Court in 1925 (see Times, 25 and 26 November, and 1 December, with two reports of the judgment on 16 December). Scarce: no copies located on either COPAC, WorldCat or in the Imperial War Museum archives. £65.00

14501. [Council for Organising British Engineering Industry, Manchester]: [Printed pamphlet.] Council for Organising British Engineering Industry. Report of the Committee on Engineering Education and Research.

[Manchester: Thomas Wyatt, printer, 279 Deansgate. 1916.] 27pp., 8vo. Stapled. Without wraps. In fair condition, on aged paper, with staple hole through all the leaves. From the Board of Education Library, and with its pencil shelfmark at the head of the first page. No copy in the British Library, or on COPAC. £60.00

14464. [Council for the Preservation of Rural England and The Roads Beautifying Association]: [Pamphlet] Report of the Trunk Roads Joint Committee

Published by Council for the Preservation of Rural England, Printed by The Garden City Press Ltd, at Letchworth, Hertfordshire. [1937] 36pp., 8vo, with photos and a folding "Diagram of the Dover Glasgow Road", green printed illustrated paper wraps, slight damage ot spine, condition mainly good. Initials of previous owner on front cover. Three copies on COPAC (Nottingham, Kew, Birmingham, NOT BL). £135.00

14531. [Cripple Children's Training & Dinner Society.]: [Pamphlet.] Cripple Children's Training & Dinner Society. Report, 1903. [With two duplicated items loosely inserted: 'Rules for Helpers during Dinner Hour' and 'Form of Application for Free Dinner'.]

Printed by H. Williams and Son, 222 Gray's Inn Rd., London, W.C. 1904. [Both duplicated items without date or place.] 12pp., 12mo. Stapled. In grey printed wraps. With stamp, shelfmark and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. Scarce: no copies in the British Library or on COPAC. Both duplicated items are 1p., 8vo, on a separate leaf, and both reproduce manuscript. Both are in good condition. The first, in portrait, is headed 'Cripple Schools' Dinners Sub-Committee. | Rules for Helpers during Dinner Hour. 12-1.30 p.m.' Listing eight rules, including: '5. While the nurse is helping the more delicate children to wash their hands, to remain with the other children, superintending and joining in their games, and making friends with them.' The second duplicated item, in landscape, is a form headed 'Cripple Children's Training and Dinners Society. | Form of Application for Free Dinner.' Divided into seven columns, including 'Occupations and Earnings of Father and Mother' and 'Cause of present Poverty'. £100.00

14532. [David Caradog Jones and Janet E. McCrindell] [The Social Survey of Merseyside, University of Liverpool.]: [Pamphlet in the University of Liverpool series 'The Social Survey of Merseyside'.] No. 5. Social Factors in Secondary Education.

Daily Post Printers, Wood Street, Liverpool. 1932. 44pp., 8vo. Stapled. In red printed wraps. With shelfmark, stamps and label of the Ministry of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged paper, in worn and lightly-creased wraps. No copy at the British Library; copies on COPAC at Leicester, Leeds, Liverpool, the LSE and Institute of Education. £60.00

14533. [Destitute Children's Dinners Society] [Freeman & Son, printers, 107 Wilton Road, Victoria Station, London, SW]: [Pamphlet.] The Forty-fifth Report of the Destitute Children's Dinners Society, established 1866. With a List of Donors and Subscribers.

London: Freeman & Son, Printers, 107, Wilton Road, Victoria Station, SW. From July 1st, 1910, to June 30th, 1911. 24pp., 12mo. Stapled. In grey printed wraps. With stamp, shelfmark and label of the Board of Education Library, otherwise in good condtion, on lightly-aged paper. No copy in the British Library, or on COPAC. £70.00

14569. [East Midland Educational Union, 14 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham]: [Printed pamphlet.] East Midland Educational Union. Constitution and Examination Arrangements. Approved January, 1930.

[East Midland Education Union, 14 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham.] January 1930. 21pp., 16mo. Stapled. In very good condition, on aged paper; with pencil shelfmark (of the Board of Education Reference Library) and small rust mark on cover. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC. £40.00

14340. [Economics] L. Freer, Jr [Pseud?]: [Pamphlet; economic] General Election, 1885 | On the Present Depression in Trade

Printed and Published by G. Reveirs, Graystoke Place, Fetter Lane, London, EC, [1885] 8pp., 8vo, unbound as issued, sewn, first and last pages grubby, small closed tears, right edge, contents mainly good. Against Free Trade, giving comparative figures. No copy listed on COPAC. £110.00

11111. [Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd, The Leicester Galleries, Leicester Square, London; Ethelbert White; Jacob Epstein]: [Printed pamphlet.] Catalogue. Landscapes in Oil and Water-colour by Ethelbert White. A New Carving, "Lazarus" and other Recent Sculpture by Jacob Epstein.

March 1950; Claridge, Lewis & Jordan Ltd., 68-70 Wardour Street, W.1. [London] 16mo, 8 pp. On art paper. In yellow printed wraps printed in orange. Good, with minor spotting around staples. Thirty-six items by White on pp.2-5, preceded by a biographical note. Twenty-five items by Epstein on pp.6-7, headed by 'LAZARUS (Carving in Hopton Wood stone)'. Scarce: only two copies on COPAC, and none on viaLibri. £56.00

9770. [Population of USA projected] Montgomery Meigs (Sr), [From the papers of Montgomery Meigs, Jr, son of The Union Army's Quarter-Master-General] 'Graphic and Tabular Representation of the Progress of Population in the United States from 1750 to 1990 [American Population Projection]

Large lithograph graph table Washington, 1889 38 x 66 cm; 'L. M. Zuncker, del.'), slightly yellowed, burnhole (buller?) through part of title (two letters affected),'Bvt. Major General Quarter Master General, U.S.A. (retired)'), dated 'Washington, D.C. August-September, 1889', giving a 'Graphic and Tabular Representation of the Progress of Population in the United States from 1750 to 1990'. With facsimile of Meigs's signature. The graph sweeps up in a curve to a steep rise in the latter decades, with a partial parallel estimate of the population 'had there been no war from 1861-65'. A column gives the 'Population of the United States' for each decade from 1750 to 1990, with the percentage increase for each decade. Beside this is another column giving the population for the country's inhabitants of 'African Descent' from 1790 to 1990, with percentage increase. Beneath the columns Meigs gives his sources as 'Bancroft' and the U.S. Census, and provides a projection of population density in 1990 for various countries and continents (including U.S., 399 to sq. Mile; England, 389; China, 420). He also predicts the number of 'new families [...] to be provided with new homesteads' from 1930 to 1940, and points out that this will require greater activity on the part of 'building trades, and [...] other lines of business'. A significant document in the study of American demographics, by an influential and well-connected individual, but Meigs's projections have proved wide of the mark. Between 1900 and 1990 he predicted an increase at a rate of 33.46% each decade, resulting in an American population of 1,206,400,000 in 1990, of which 85,957,000 were of African descent. Note: WorldCat records only one other copy of this important study (NY Historical Society). £950.00

9769. [From the papers of Montgomery Meigs, Jr, son of The Union Army's Quarter-Master-General] Anon.: [Pamphlet] General Basis of Estimates for Labor and Material, as prepared by the United States Light-House Establishment.

1891 Pamphlet, 'Published for the Information of Officers of the Quartermaster's Department', 9pp.,12mo, original grey printed wraps, good, on aged paper, in worn and stained wraps, tiny cross shape neatly punched through the leaves in bottom outer corner. £250.00

11916. [Georgian song book; Cluer Dicey & Co., London publishers; 'George Seghious'; 'The Black's Lamentation'; slavery]: [Printed Georgian pamphlet of song lyrics, not in ESTC.] The Gentleman's Concert. Being A Choice Collection of Favourite Songs. Containing, [twenty numbered song titles, including '15. I am a poor black, it is true.'

Publication details and date not give. [London: Cluer Dicey & Co. 1770s?] The full drophead title, beneath a headpiece of three lions in foliage, reads: The Gentleman's CONCERT. | BEING | A Choice Collection of Favourite SONGS. | Containing, | [following 10 lines in left-hand of two columns] 1. Where's my swain so blyth and clever | 2. To an arbour of woodbines. | 3. The flame of love sincere I felt. | 4. When all the Attic fire was fled. | 5. Cupid, god of pleasing anguish. | 6. As I walk'd forth, &c. | 7. O give me leave to love you dearly. | 8. When Fanny I saw as she trip'd, [sic] &c | 9. Bumpers 'Squire Jones. | 10. Sweet Annie. | [following 10 lines in right-hand of two columns] 11. With the Sun have the Lads

&c. | 12. Ye Swains that are courting, &c. | 13. Come from the temple. | 14. The Answer. | 15. I nm [sic] a poor black, it is true. | 16. I like the fox shall grieve. | 17. O my charming Molly. | 18. How little do the landmen know. | 19. When I find my sweet Molly alone. | 20. Away, away! we've crown'd &c' 8pp., 12mo. Unbound. Two bifoliums, attached to one another along the gutters with glue. On aged laid paper, with wear to margins, and loss of a few initial words to p.7 from gluing. P.7 carries 'The Black's Lamentation', opening: 'Am a poor Black, it is true. | Love does invade me, first published in the 1740s'. This version consists of eight eight-line stanzas, sung by a black man in 'New Bedlam' to the object of his affection, omitting the woman's racist response to 'George Seghious'. Scarce: no copy on COPAC or WorldCat, and not in ESTC, but see T40734, said to have been probably published in the 1770s by Cluer Dicey & Co. That item carries the same title, with the omission of the word 'Favourite', and with nineteen different songs. It is 8pp., 8vo, and has the publication details ''Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yrrd [sic], Bow-Lane, London,' £280.00

12598. [J. Tomkinson, Coventry publisher; Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom; the Coventry Cemetery]: [Printed item.] The History of Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom of Coventry, with a Description of St. Michael's Church, the Holy Trinity, and other Places of Worship, with numerous Local Illustrations. [...]

Fifth Edition. Coventry: Printed and published by J. Tomkinson, High Street, 1877. After '[...] with numerous local illustrations.' the title continues: 'To which is added a short account of The Coventry Cemetery, Waterworks, St. Mary's and Draper's Halls, School of Art, New Free Library, Bond's and Ford's Hospitals; also the History of Stoneleigh and Combe Abbeys, Kenilworth Castle, &c.' 48pp., small (15 x 12 cm) 4to. With fold-out frontispiece and nine engraved plates, including 'The Countess Lady Godiva riding through Coventry' and 'Peeping Tom of Coventry'. In green printed card wraps with red cloth spine. The plates are in fair condition but the book is a frail survival on aged paper, in worn and torn wraps. Scarce: the only copy of this edition on COPAC at Birmingham, and no copies of any other editions there. £220.00

14609. [K. Bechgaard, Special Magistrate, Aden]: [Pamphlet; Jewish Community] Scheme of Government Assistance in Connection with the Civil Disturbances of December, 1947.

[28 May 1948] 16pp., 8vo, unbound as issued, stapled, minor marking, mainly good+. For background, see Ari Ariel, "Jewish-Muslim Relations and Migration from Yemen to Palestine [...]", p.71. Riots succeeded the UN decision to partition Palestine - with the consequences to the Jewish community this pamphlet addresses (inc. claims for damage). No copy in BL; none recorded in COPAC/WorldCat. £180.00

9708. [Law Reform Association, London (founded 1922); Philip G. Peabody; Robert J. Walker; R. Mary Barclay; A. E. Platford; Percy E. Hurst]: Printed handbill for the Law Reform Association, founded in 1922 with the aim of setting up a Ministry of Justice to combat 'the appalling expense of litigation in the High Court', with the public being 'mercilessly fleeced through solicitors'.

[1920s.] The Law Reform Association, Room 25, 55 Chancery Lane, London. 8vo, 2 pp. Text clear and complete. On aged and creased paper, with nicking to edges. Begins by naming the Association's officers, before setting out its seven aims. Paragraph at head of reverse begins, in bold, 'English justice is the most costly in the world'. Eleven reasons are given for this being the case, the main one being 'the continuance of those middle-men barristers and their clerks standing between the solicitor and his client': 'An Englishman in attempting to get justice in the High Court has to employ legal forces 600 per cent. greater than the foreigner or colonial.' The 'expense of litigation in the High Court' is 'appalling' and 'outrageous', and 'the public is being fleeced by the wilful spinning out of cases and demands for outrageous and exorbitant refreshers'. Scarce: no copy of this item on COPAC, and very little to be discovered about this Association on the web or elsewhere. £56.00

11041. [Leonard Courtney, Secretary, and J. M. Longley, Treasurer, The Commercial Travellers' Benevolent Institution (Inst. 1849]: [Printed pamphlet.] The Commercial Travellers' Benevolent Institution, for the Relief of Aged and Necessitous Members and Widows of Members. Instituted 1849.

[1907. The Commercial Travellers' Benevolent Institution, 11 Ironmonger Lane, Cheapside, E.C.] 12mo, 10 pp. Text clear and complete. On aged and worn paper, with pin holes and a spike hole. Includes list of the 'Board of Management for 1907', accounts, 'Statement of Accounts, December 21st, 1901, to December 20th, 1906. Compiled by Mr. J. M. Longley, Treasurer and Chairman of the Finance and General Purposes Committee.' Also 'Report Presented at the Half-Yearly General Court, 27th Dec., 1906.' The 'Result of Poll', 'December Election, 1906', by Courtney, contains lists naming 'Successful Candidates' and 'Unsuccessful Candidates'. £38.00

14421. [Library Catalogue]: [Printed Library Catalogue; Gibraltar] Author Catalogue of the Gibraltar Garrison Library, January Ist,1919

Gibraltar. Garrison Library Printing Establishment, 1918. [vi] 288pp., 8vo, green printed boards, edges sl. rubbed, covers sl. grubby, small discreet shelf-mark on front cover, insert on verso of front board with a notice about lending to War Office people and that they are not to leave London, title-page stamped "War Office Library", which is over-stamped "Ministry of Defence | Library Services | Withdrawn". No copy listed on COPAC or WorldCat. £450.00

10845. [Pierre Didot, l'ainé, printer; Musée national du Luxembourg, France ]: [Printed pamphlet.] Explication des Tableaux, Statues, Bustes, etc. composant les Galerie [sic] du Palais de la Chambre des Pairs de France.

A Paris, de l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Ainé, Imprimeur de la Chambre des Pairs de France, rue du Pont de Lodi, no 6. 1814. 12mo, 72 pp. Stitched. In remains of original grey wraps, with front wrap present (though worn at extremities), but only a trace of rear wrap remaining. Text clear and complete. On aged paper with many dog-eared corners. An ephemeral item by one of the greatest of French printers: COPAC only lists three copies, at Oxford, University College London, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. None of these record the misprint in the title of 'les Galerie' for 'les Galeries', and it is not present in the Harvard copy either. BL has 1815 edition. £125.00

14628. [Royal Visit to Canada, 1959; Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip]: [Royal Visit to Canada, 1959.] Typed 'draft of Press Release to be issued in Ottawa with the itinerary'.

[Ottawa, Canada.] 'Not for publication or broadcast before 3.30 G.M.T. Tuesday, January 20, 1959.' Press release and itinerary totalling 6pp., foolscap 8vo, and 1p., 4to. Stapled and folded into a blue cover with a duplicated map of Canada with the 'Queen's route' on the reverse. The item begins with an initial press release (1p., 4to), headed 'Itinerary Announced'; this is followed by the 'Itinerary for the visit to Canada of her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness The Prince Philip 1959' (4pp., foolscap 8vo); following the itinerary is a 'PRESS RELEASE - Office of the Prime Minister' (1p., foolscap 8vo), 11 February 1959, announcing that 'President Eisenhower has accepted an invitation to come to Canada June 26th to join Her Majesty The Queen in the ceremonies marking the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway at the St. Lambert Lock near Montreal'; the final item is 'Press Release No. 6 | January 23, 1959', headed 'Her Majesty the Queen to attend Queen's Plate' (1p., foolscap 8vo): 'This year's running of The Queen's Plate will commemorate the One Hundredth Anniversary of the race which was established by Her Majesty's Great-Great-Grandmother, Queen Victoria in 1859'. No other copy traced. £150.00

14406. [Satirical Georgian handbill, satirising 'The Peoples Frend & Hed-Vo-Cate' [i.e. 'The People's Friend and Advocate']]: Printed satirical handbill, written in apocalyptic style in prose and verse, on an engraving of 'The Peoples Frend & Hed-Vo-Cate' (i.e. The People's Friend and Advocate), one of the 'intended Inhabitants' of Pandaemonium.

Without place or date. [British; 1820s?] 1p., 12mo. On 24.5 x 18.5 cm. piece of thin wove paper. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper with damage to extremities. A scarce and intriguing survival, about which nothing has hitherto been discovered. Printed in heavy black type characteristic of the early nineteenth century. The first paragraph reads: 'In consequence of there being a large demand for copies of the Engraveing [sic] of the peoples Hed-vo-cate, I, anothur [sic] artist, and not wishing to depreciate the above named engraveing, but thinking it rather imparfect ave printed anuther ENGRAVEING with the following adishuns, and is to be Sold at Pandaemonium, and is a parfect sketch of one of its intended Inhabitants, | THE PEOPLES FREND & HED-VO-CATE, | He will have the Eye Of An Hawk, the Tooth Of A Serpent, and the Stomack Of A Horse Leach, which is ever crying out Give! Give!! and is never satisfied.' The text continues in the same vein, with the second paragraph containing the four lines of verse: 'The Savage all Wild in his Den, | Is nobler and better than Thou. | Thou standest a Wonder to Men, | Such Cruelty Blackens thy Brow.' The last paragraph reads: 'The Artist thinks that the Sketch is now parfect, and he hopes to be encoraged by a large sale of Copies, and if they go well he happen may make a Sketch or two of some of their other Hed-vo-cates.' Excessively scarce: no copy on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat. £180.00

10846. [The Belgrave Literary and Scientific Institution, Sloane Street, Chelsea; James Cook Evans; nineteenth-century lending libraries]: [Printed catalogue.] Catalogue of the Library of the Belgrave Literary and Scientific Institution.

July, 1837. Chelsea: Printed for the Institution, by William Blatch, 23, Exeter Street, Sloane Street. 12mo, 48 pp. Disbound. Incomplete, ending at foot of page 48 with 'Wilson's (H. C.) Pastorals of the Season, 8vo. [1]834', and lacking the 'Regulations of the Library [...] printed at the end of the Catalogue', advertised on p.3. On lightly aged paper, with the only fault a small hole through the title leaf removing the first five letters of the word 'Belgrave' on the recto, and the 'atal' in 'Catalogue' on the verso. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC or WorldCat. In 1834 the Imperial Magazine carried a report (pp.293-294) of the foundation of the Institution (with Evans as prime mover), which was 'intended to embrace within its district the extensive and wealthy neighbourhood of which Belgrave-square is the centre' £225.00

14570. [The Church Schools' Emergency League, Manchester]: To Defend and Promote Religious Education. Memorials Presented by the Church Schools' Emergency League to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Right Honourable H. A. L. Fisher, President of the Board of Education.

The Church Schools' Emergency League [Manchester]. Emergency Leaflet, CLXII. July 1919. 8pp., 12mo, paginated 19-26. Stapled and unbound. With stamp, shelfmark and label of the Board of Education Reference Library. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC at Lambeth Palace. £50.00

14534. [The Crossley and Porter Orphan Home and School (Secondary), Halifax, founded 1864]: [The Crossley and Porter Orphan Home and School (Secondary), Halifax.] 67th Annual Report Booklet. List of donors, abstract of accounts and reports. For the year ended 31st July, 1931.

Halifax: F. King and Sons Limited, Bowling Dyke Mills. 1931. 40pp., 8vo. Stapled. In yellow printed wraps, with photograph of the imposing school on the front cover. With stamp, shelfmark and label of the Board of Education Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. No copy in the British Library or on COPAC. £70.00

11961. [The Georgia Committee; C. E. Maurice, Chairman; R. Ellis Roberts, Vice-Chairman; N. F. Dryhurst, Hon. Secretary; Robert Lynd]: Printed pamphlet issued by the Georgia Committee, and titled 'The Acid Test', containing the article 'The Acid Test for the Bolsheviks' by Robert Lynd, and a list of 'important dates in the recent history of Georgia'.

[The Georgia Committee, 3 Adelphi Terrace, Strand, London. 1922.] 4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. On lightly-aged and creased paper, with short closed tear at centre of gutter. The first page is headed 'THE ACID TEST', and carries an announcement by Maurice, Roberts and Dryhurst, reading: 'The Georgia Committee, first formed in 1906 as the "Georgia Relief Committee," was revived in 1922 by the friends of Georgian Independence, and is open for membership to all supporters of the Rights of Small Nations. | The Committee's object is, primarily, to keep

Georgia's claims to independence before the civilised world until the Moscow Soviet Government shall be compelled, by public opinion, or other means, to withdraw its army of occupation from Georgian territory.' Lynd's article ('Reprinted by kind permission of the Editor from "The Daily News," April 11th, 1922.') covers the middle two pages, with the list of 'important dates' filling the last page, ending with '1921. 11th February. Russian Army of over 100,000, without declaration of war, [last four words in italics] invades Georgia and remains in occupation.' One copy on COPAC (LSE) "Reprinted from: Daily News, April 11th, 1922." £150.00

8558. [The Home Colonization Co-operative and Social Home Association.]: Home Colonization. Address of the Home Colonization Co-operative and Social Home Association (Limited).

No date. [1870s?] Langley & Son, Printers, 23 George St., Euston Rd. 12mo: 8 pp. An unopened pamphlet made by folding a leaf twice. Text clear and complete. Good: on aged and slightly-grubby paper. Scarce: the only copies on COPAC at the London School of Economics and University College London, in whose entries it is dated to the 1870s. £150.00

12296. [The Manchester Statistical Society, founded in 1833]: [Printed handbill.] Amended Rules of the Manchester Statistical Society.

Without place or date. [Manchester; c.1860?] 4pp., 12mo. In small print. Bifolium. On aged and worn paper. A remarkably concise document, with a preamble followed by twenty rules on pp.1-3, and an index on p.4. Excessively scarce: with no copies at the British Library or on COPAC. The Society's Report for the 1860-1861 Session states that the amended rules, 'as recommended by the Special Committee' , were adopted at a meeting at the Clarence Hotel, 19 October 1860. £120.00

13424. [The Socialist Party of Canada, founded in 1931 in Winnipeg, Manitoba]: [Printed pamphlet by the Socialist Party of Canada.] The Socialist Manifesto.

Published by the Socialist Party of Canada, P.O. Box 1751, Winnipeg, Canada. [Preface dated 'DOMINION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, | JUNE, 1944.'] 42pp., 12mo. In yellow wraps printed in black and red, with 'Object' and 'Declaration of Principles' of the SPC inside the front cover, and advertisements for SPC publications on both sides of the back cover. Stapled. In fair condition, aged and worn, with pencil ownership inscriptions of 'Jean Thurlow'. The Preface begins: 'This pamphlet was first published in 1910 as the Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Canada. During the ten-year period ending in 1920, five editions, totalling more than 25,000 copies, were issued. The growing insistence of members and sympathisers impels us to place the Manifesto once again in the hands of the working class. The present edition consists of 5,000 copies. | Some changes have been made. [...] This is the second time that the Manifesto has been issued in the midst of war. The fourth edition made its appearance during the first world war. Then, as now, the banner of international socialism was held high'. It concludes: 'What will be the outcome of the present war? Our statesmen promise a finer world than any we have known - after the guns are silenced. The statesmen of the first world war made the same promise. On the other hand the Party Manifesto, more brutally perhaps, but more honestly, promised "an outbreak of peace as cataclysmic as was

the outbreak of war." The statesmen were wrong; the Manifesto was right. | The statesmen will be wrong again, if the future world is to remain in their keeping. The war has accelerated the development of the means of production to a degree hardly conceivable a few years ago. [...] There can be no finer world for workers - until they pay heed to the message of socialism.' No copy in the British Library or on COPAC. OCLC WorldCat lists three copies in the United States, two in Canada and one in Holland. £120.00

14470. [The Tyndale Memorial, Nibley Knoll, North Nibley, Gloucestershire] [William Tyndale (c.1494-1536), translator of the bible into English]: [Printed handbill.] Tyndale Memorial. Final Appeal. [With illustration and list of committee members.]

Without place or date. [Circa 1864.] 2pp., 12mo. On both sides of a leaf of laid paper. Aged and ruckled, with spotting to the reverse. The first page is headed by an engraving of the memorial, and the text begins: 'We are instructed to invite your kind consideration of the following statement. | In the spring of 1863, the foundation stone of a Memorial to William Tyndale was laid on Nibley Knoll, in the parish of North Nibley. | The Building is now nearly finished. The sum of £900 has been already subscribed and expended upon it, and nearly half as much more will be required when the work is completed. To meet this, £100 is promised, leaving more than £300 to be raised.' At the end of the document are given the names of the four honorary secretaries and nine committee members, including the Lord Lieutenant, Earl Bathurst and 'Mr. Cave, M.P.' £90.00

3926. [VICTORIAN COMICS, COMIC STRIP, CARTOONS]: The trials tribulations and troubles of Mr & Mrs Twitters on Thanksgiving Day.

London: Sutton. [No date, but circa 1880-90]. Twenty illustrations, each roughly four inches square and each with its own caption, on a sheet of paper roughly forty-four inches by eight and a half inches, folded into a booklet four and a half inches square, in original printed blue paper wraps. Extremely scarce. No copy on COPAC. Frail, on discoloured brittle paper, creased and with several closed tears. A charming account, timed between 5 a.m. and 4 p.m., of the mishaps that befall Mr Timothy Twitters ('being Flush of Money and having a Holiday') and his wife, as they try to 'see the Procession on Thanksgiving Day', culminating in their being taken into custody. Striking illustrations of figures in silhouette. £300.00

10196. [Washington Irving; J. Munnings]: [Printed] Index to the Life and Letters of Washington Irving

London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1864. Separately published from four volume edition (1862-4), pp.308-347, 8vo, printed paper wraps, darkened, wear at spine and corners, minor foxing, mainly good. Bentley (Turner) Index 1110, ascribed to J. Munnings. A bookseller on viaLibri reveals that an index is anticipated in the fourth volume of the "Life and Letters" published by Bentley, 1862-4. No mention is made of this Index in either COPAC or WorldCat's listings of copies of the "Life and Letters". Very scarce. £450.00

10770. [Zeppelin raid on England, 3 September 1916; Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson (1895-1918); the Great War; World War I]: [Printed pamphlet.] The Great

Air Raid on England, September 3rd, 1916. Souvenir Photographs of the Wrecked Zeppelin. Also Photograph of Lieut. William Leefe Robinson, V.C., Worcester Regiment & R.F.C. [...]

St. James's Press (T.U.). 22, Rosoman St., London, E.C. [1916.] Landscape 12mo, 16 pp. Stapled. Printed on art paper. Text and all images clear and complete. Worn and aged, with closed tear to last leaf repaired with tape. Title ends: '[...] Worcester Regiment & R.F.C., Who attacked the Zeppelin under circumstances of great difficulty and danger, and sent it crashing to the ground as a flaming wreck.' Page of text, headed 'Official Report', followed by a page carrying the report of Robinson's award of the V.C., from the London Gazette, and then eleven full-page photographs, showing Robinson, English soldiers among the wreckage, 'Exclusive Photo of the Zeppelin just before bursting into flame', 'Exclusive photo of the Zeppelin falling to earth in a mass of flame'. One photograph is captioned 'Photo shows removing one of the girders. Our experts hope to reconstruct portions of the framework.' Excessively scarce: the only copy on COPAC at the Imperial War Museum. £280.00

14535. A. A. Thomas, B.A., Barrister-at-Law, Standing Counsel to the National Union of Teachers: [Pamphlet.] The Education of the Workers' Children. Being the substance of an Address to the London Trades Council on 13th June, 1907.

'Printed by request.' Second edition. Published by the National Union of Teachers at their Offices, Bolton House, 67 & 71 Russell Square, London W1. [1907.] 8pp., 12mo. Stitched. With stamps, label and shelfmark of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in fair condition, on aged and worn paper. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC at the Bishopsgate Institute. £60.00

14571. A. E. Lovell, Education Office, Town Hall, Chester [City and County of the City of Chester]: [Printed report.] Draft Scheme of the Local Education Authority. Under Sections 1-4 of the Education Act of 1918.

Education Office, Town Hall, Chester. January 1921. 78pp., 8vo, with two fold-out tables at rear. In fair condition, on aged paper, in worn wraps. With stamps, shelf-marks and label of the Board of Education Reference Library. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC. £80.00

14572. A. E. Lovell, M.A., Director of Education and Secretary to the Committee, City & County Borough of Chester]: [Printed report.] City & County Borough of Chester. Education Committee. Report of the Director of Education upon Higher Education within the City of Chester.

Chester: Arthur Blayney, Printer, Bridge Street Row, Works - Watergate Street. 24 March 1904. 46pp., 8vo, with two fold-out appendices. In good condition, on aged paper, in worn grey wraps. Stamps, shelf-marks and label of the Board of Education Reference Library. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on WorldCat. £80.00

14536. A. J. Dawson, Clerk to the Committee, County Council of Durham Education Department: [Pamphlet.] "Higher Tops." A Paper prepared for the consideration of the County Education Committee by A. J. Dawson, Clerk to the Committee.

Newcastle-on-Tyne: Co-operative Printing Society Limited, Rutherford Street; also at Manchester and London. 1917. 25pp., 8vo. With an additional five plates of coloured tables. Stapled. In pink printed wraps. With stamp, shelfmarks and label of the Board of Education reference library, otherwise in fair condition, on aged paper, in chipped and worn wraps. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, or on COPAC. £60.00

14537. Admiral Lord Charles Beresford; the Rev. the Hon. Canon Lyttelton, et al: [Pamphlet.] Articles by Principles of Public and Preparatory Schools. The Work of the Navy League in Schools. Reprinted from The Navy League Journal.

London: Published by The Navy League, 13 Victoria Street, Westminster, [London] SW. 1907. 68pp., 12mo. Stapled. In light-blue printed wraps. Reprinting 26 articles by a number of different authors. With stamps, shelfmarks and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC. £70.00

7053. Alphonse de Lamartine [Jane Francesca Wilde, Lady Wilde ('Speranza', née Jane Frances Agnes Elgee), translator] [Gunners' Library, Royal Artillery]: Pictures of the First French Revolution; being Episodes from the History of the Girondists. By A. de Lamartine. With a Summary of the Intermediate Events.

London: Simms and M'Intyre, Paternoster Row, and Donegall Street, Belfast. 1850. 12mo. Lacking half-title and paginated from [3 (title-page)] to 288. In heavily-worn black-leather half-binding, marbled boards. Title leaf with 4 cm closed tear at foot. Tight, but on aged, creased, spotted and stained paper. Stained white label with blind stamp and manuscript title on spine. Very scarce bookplate (7 x 9 cm) of the 'Gunners' Library, Royal Artillery', on front pastedown, with illustration of a mortar and two cannon. Black-ink stamp of the 'Gunners Library, R.A', illustrated with a cannon, on the title page. Lady Wilde's second published work, testifying to her interest in revolutionary action. Although this copy bears no indication of the fact, the book was number 45 in the 'Parlour Library' series. Scarce. No copy in the British Library. COPAC only lists copies at the Bodleian, and the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales. £220.00

4816. And. Dan. Lizell and Eric Arvid Lidell: [Pamphlet] Dissertatio Physica de Natura et Origine Presteris [Waterspouts]

Lundae [Lund], In Academiae Londini Gothorum, 24 Feb. 1798 Disbound, 27pp., cr. 8vo, plus one page of illustrations (four varieties of waterspouts (oceanic phenomenon like tornadoes), minor defects but mainly good condition. The text is mainly in Latin but one

substantial footnote is a quotation from an English periodical, and the dedication and another substantial footnote are in Swedish. The footnotes reflect the paucity of material concerning this phenomenon, presumably not mentioning Benjamin Franklin's contribution to the study because it hadn't yet been published (?). No copy on COPAC, BLC, Library of Congress, or other catalogues consulted. £450.00

3947. Andrew James Symington [CARL CHRISTIAN RAFN; GLASGOW]: Handbill printed poem 'THE DREAM HARP', together with Two Autograph Letters Signed to Miss Christiana Rafn of Copenhagen.

Poem without date or place; letters 18 December 1894 (on letterhead '1 LANDORE TERRACE, | BATTLEFIELD, LANGSIDE, | GLASGOW.') and 7 January 1895 ('Langside: Glasgow'). Symington (1825-98), a minor Scottish poet, traveller and author, spent a year in America and edited a selection of President Garfield's speeches, and thus was accorded an entry in Appleton's Cyclopaedia. The poem (four pages, 12mo, on bifoliate, very good with light spotting and staining) is printed in blue, with an engraving in black of (according to the poem) 'a Harp [...] of rare beauty [...] On either side, an alabaster Cross | Of snowy whiteness twined with dew-sprent flowers' and a 'white Dove with an olive branch [...] | Descending'. It is a conventionally-religious account, in blank verse of a vision of how, 'though the chords and colours Seven, had streamed | Into my tranced soul, One ray of Light | From the Seventh Heavens'. LETTER ONE (four pages, 12mo, good, though with faded text and light spotting) thanks Miss Rafn for the 'publication in commemoration of your late distinguished father' (the archaeologist Carl Christian Rafn, 1795-1864). Discussions of packages to be sent by Miss Rafn for 'the two libraries' at Glasgow, and for Dr David Mackinlay and Symington himself, 'as commemorative of [Rafn's] Centenary'. 'As to America - please make up in same way a few to Gen. James Grant Wilson L.L.D. D.C.L. &c - a few to F W. Hoyt Esq - and what you can spare for a library in New York (to be chosen by Gen Wilson). [...] I have not been very well and am in D[octo]rs. hands [...]'. In LETTER TWO (three pages, 12mo, grubby, stained and discoloured) Symington explains that he is suffering from 'a bad cold'. States that the two libraries in Glasgow mentioned in the previous letter are the Mitchell ('a grand Library') and the Stirling. 'I called on both the librarians and they were both willing to share the expense of carriage from Copenhagen.' Discusses the other recipients he has suggested. Both letters signed 'A J Symington'. £100.00

8379. Andrew Reed (1787-1862), Congregational minister [Francis Barnett (b.1785)]: A Letter to the Editor of the British Review, occasioned by the notice of "No Fiction," and "Martha," in the last number of that work. [Annotated copy of Francis Barnett (the 'Lefevre' of Reed's 'No Fiction') bound up with a review of the two books.]

[1823?] London: Printed by H. Teape, Tower-hill: Sold by Francis Westley, Stationers' Court, and the other booksellers. Excessively scarce, with no copy in the British Library and the only copy on COPAC at Cambridge, where it is tentatively dated to 1823. 8vo: 80 pp. Followed by five leaves (pp.373-382) from 'The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle' for 1839, in which an anonymous review of Reed's two books features on pp.378-382. Interleaved (all blank). In simple contemporary blue-grey half-binding with cloth spine and corners and marbled boards. Tight copy on aged paper in worn binding. Neat contemporary repair to blank reverse of title. The circumstances of this publication are as follows. In 1819, apparently believing his former friend Barnett to be dead, Reed had

published the autobiographical novel 'No Fiction', with Barnett as 'hero' under the name 'Lefevre'. The complaints of an outraged Barnett, who by his own account suffered from mental illness, provoked a written response from Reed, which was published by Barnett in 1822 as 'A threatening letter from Douglas (the self-acknowledged author of "No fiction,") to Lefevre'. Barnett followed this up in 1823 with two works: 'Memoirs of Francis Barnett, the Lefevre of “No Fiction” and 'A Reply to Mr. Reed's Advertisement to the seventh Edition of "No Fiction".' The title-page of the present item carries the following inscription: 'Presented to Mr. Barnett by Mr. Herbert of the Library Brunswick Place Stoke Newington Pond Novr. 8th 1844.' Barnett's ownership inscription is at the head of the title: 'Francis Barnett | 16 Great Charlotte St'. Barnett's hand is undisciplined [symptom here of an unsettled mind] and hard to decypher. He has decorated the front pastedown with flourishes, surrounding the words 'Stat Nominis Umbra | Do as you like with it'. There is a long and confused signed note by him on the front free endpaper, dated 'RR 7/12/12/41' [sic]. Signed and dated instructions to the binder on recto of flyleaf, with verso carrying another signed note by Barnett, to 'Wilson', dated 'Grove House 22/10/44', asking Wilson to send the book to ', with your marginal Notes to it either with or without your Name'. Underlinings and notes to last three pages. At foot of final page Barnett writes: 'What did the pretended Non Com of 1824 say to this. Prais'd it to the skies - Dr. Brown LLD wrote a laboured defense of Reed in the Investigation; and it must have been against his Conscience. He could not put his hand to his brow & say Mens sibi conscia recti'. On rear flyleaf: 'told Mr. Drew of it as he was setting life, as it was printed at the Caxton Press, Fisher & Co., but if, as well as the British Review, which Reed replied to died a Natural Death a few Months after the publication of this | F Barnett | 22/10.44'. 'For more information see Reed's entry in the New DNB, and R. J. Helmstadter's 'The Reverend Andrew Reed (1787-1862): evangelical pastor as entrepreneur' (in R. W. Davis and R. J. Helmstadter, eds, 'Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society: Essays in honor of R. K. Webb', 1992). £850.00

14462. Anon. [YMCA]: [Handbill] Papers for Young Men. No. 1. By the River

[YMCA], no date [4]pages, 8vo, grubby and foxed, last page (blank) with vestiges of glue from being laid down in album. A note is printed at the end, "Young Men, who may receive or read this paper, are affectionately invited to the Bible Classes of the Young Men's Christian Association [...] | W. Edwyn Shipton" (venues given). No other copy traced - COPAC lists another series of the same name only (published by Nisbet). Discussion of Jesus Christ, using metaphor of a river. £56.00

9675. Arthur Aikin, Secretary, Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce [Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, President; Royal Society of Arts]: Printed folio handbill headed 'Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. Adelphi, May 27, 1817. The Rewards adjudged by the Society will be presented this day [...] in the following order.'

Printed by T. WOODFALL, (Assistant Secretary to the Society,) 10, Taylor's Buildings, Chandos Street. [Adelphi, May 27, 1817.] Folio, 1 p. Text clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. The heading states that the presentation will take place 'at Free Masons' Hall, Great Queen Street, to the respective Candidates by His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, President, in the following order.' The text, laid out in double column, lists a total of sixty-four successful candidates, numbered under five headings: Agriculture, Chemistry, Polite Arts, Manufactures, Mechanics. Number 3 in the Agriculture section is 'To the Earl of Jersey, for embanking 300 Acres of Land, on the Gnoll and Britton Ferry Marshes, the Silver Isis Medal.' Addresses are generally given, so no 5 in Polite Arts, 'To Miss Emma Eleonora Kendrick, Upper Mary-le-bone Street, for an original historical miniature, the Gold Isis Medal.' Sixteen women feature in the Polite Arts section, and in no other. £85.00

10201. Charles Estienne [Jessie Kennett, illustrator; Canterbury College of Art]: [Pamphlet printed at Canterbury College of Art.] The Garden of Pleasure. Translated from "La Maison Rustique" by Charles Estienne, 1572. With linocuts by Jessie Kennett.

Canterbury College of Art, 1949. Small 4to, 4 pp. Stitched. In original brown and black decorative wraps. Good, on lightly-aged paper. A pretty piece of printing, with the title-page printed in light blue and black, and the vignette on illustration on the reverse of the title leaf in the same light blue. The text covers two pages. Scarce: no copy on COPAC. £75.00

1664. Comte Alexis de Saint Priest.: Printed Circular Autograph Letter Signed with Subscription Form): Prospectus of the "Encyclopédie du XIXe Siècle"

August 1845, 124 Regent Street, London. French writer (1805-1851). Three pages, 8vo, bifoliate, good condition. "Sir,/ I have the honor to forward you the enclosed prospectus of the "Encyclopedie du XIXe Siecle" in which the high approbation given to this work by his Holiness, and also that of the R.R. General of the Jesuits, of the Cardinals and of the principal personages of Italy is to be found[.]/ In the anticipation of the glorious destinies which the Almighty has in store for his Church in the United Kingdom, the moment has arrived when the Clergy is to get himself prepared for these important circumstances, and the best means to obtain such a result is undoubtedly to secure to themselves a moral and intellectual superiority from the extension of their knowledge./ Consequently the Roman Catholic authorities have expressed their wish that the "Encyclopedie du XIX Siecle" be as much as possible diffused amongst the Clergy of Great Britain and Ireland the 12th part of whom only has hitherto subscribed to the interesting Work. Within a short period of time the number of subscribers must necessarily increase as soon as it is sufficiently known that 25 volumes have already been published and have obtained the fullest support from the most intelligent Catholics of the United Kingdom./[space]/ The Publishers of the "Encyclopedie" agreeably to the promise they have made [page 2] to the Roman Catholic authorities in behalf of the Clergy of Great Britain and Ireland have resolved to keep up to the Ist of November next the low price of £12.12 & £1.17 for duty, for the complete copy which is quoted £18.5./ Parties preferring to pay for each volume separately will be charged 7 shs and 8-sh. per volume according to the quality of the paper, and will have the option to determine their own time for payment of the same./ Permit me to hope, Sir, that you will allow me to add your name to the list of our distinguished Subscribers/ I have the honor to be,/ Reverend Sir,/ Your obedt. humble Servant/ Comte de Saint Priest/ Mr Dolman, Bookseller, 61 New Bond Street will for

the future send to the Subscribers all the Volumes of the Work, & is authorised to receive Subscriptions & will forward any communications to the Editors.[Page 3] Bill of Subscription/ Insert my name as a Subscriber to the "Encyclopedia of the Nineteenth Century", and for the class of Impression to which my Signature is affixed, according to my own terms./ for a Vellum Copy. Price £20.17.0/ payable thus/ Name & Address ------------------------/ for a Simple Copy Price £18.5.0/ payable thus/ Name & Address / [space]/ this bill to be directed, 124. Regent Stret. London." Not traced (Bibliotheque Nationale, BL, LL, NSTC) £75.00

13507. Connop Thirlwall (1797-1875), Bishop of St David's from 1840 to his death [Prince Albert (1819-1861), consort of Queen Victoria; his son Prince Arthur (1850-1942), Duke of Connaught and Strathearn]: Printed pamphlet giving the speech of Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St David's, on the inauguration in Tenby of the 'Welsh Memorial of the Late Prince Consort', eulogising him as 'Albert the Good' in front of his son Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught.

W. Spurrell, Printer, Carmarthen. [1865.] The Times, 4 August 1865, carried a report of the inauguration on the previous day at Tenby of the 'Welsh Memorial to the Late Prince Consort', in the presence of Prince Albert's son Arthur, Duke of Connaught. The present item carries, without comment, the main speech at a banquet on the occasion, in the Assembly Room of the Gate House Hotel, by the man considered by the young John Stuart Mill as the best orator he had ever heard. 3pp., 4to. Paginated [1]-3. Bifolium. On laid paper with Joynson watermark dated 1863. In fair condition, on aged paper, creased and discoloured at the foot. It begins: 'The LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVID's then rose, and turning to HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ARTHUR, said, - | YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, MR. MAYOR, AND GENTLEMEN, | [...]'. A eulogy to Prince Albert with Latin quotation from Horace and English quotation from Tennyson, ending with an invitation to those present 'to pay a silent homage to the memory of Albert the Good'. Excessively scarce: no copies traced on either WorldCat or Copac, and no other publications found by Spurrell of Carmarthen. £80.00

14504. Councillor J. D. Chantler [W. Boyd-Dawkins; Manchester education, 1909]: [Pamphlet.] Education: Its cost to Manchester and what we get for it. Is it worth it? Lecture by Councillor J. D. Chantler, at the Holy Innocents School, Fallowfield. Chairman - W. H. Buckley, Esq., J.P. On Monday, May 3rd, 1909.

Manchester: Manchester Courier Limited, Printers, Cannon Street. [1909.] 22pp., 8vo. Stapled. In fair condition, on aged paper, with worn covers. With stamp, label and shelfmark of the Board of Education Reference Library. Transcript of letter from W. Boyd-Dawkins preceding the text. Uncommon: no copy in the British Library, and the only copies on COPAC at Oxford, Cambridge and the National Library of Scotland. £90.00

10304. Czar Peter the Great of Russia; Napoleon Bonaparte [R. Megson, Printer, Bookbinder, Bookseller, Stationer, Musicseller, Dealer in Fancy Goods, Dolls, Toys, &c.; Edwin Squire; Middlesborough News]: [Printed pamphlet.] Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia; His last Will and Testament; containing Advice to his Successors

for conquering the World. To which is appended the Opinions of Napoleon I., expressed at St. Helena, on the Designs of Russia.

Middlesbrough: R. Megson, Publisher, 81, Newport Road. [Printed at the Middlesbrough Printing and Publishing Company for Edwin Squire, 37, Douglas Street, Middlesborough.] 12mo, 7 + [i] pp. Unbound. Stabbed as issued. Text clear and complete. On aged paper, with the inner margin of the reverse of the last leaf repaired with archival tape. Last page carries an advertisement for Megson's new shop. Printed in small type, with 'The Will of Peter the Great' on pp. 2-4; 'Napoleon I. on the Designs of Russia' on pp. 5-6; and 'Peter the Great at Deptford' on pp. 6-7. Also on p. 7 is a half-page advertisement, in even smaller type, for the song 'May the Queen live for ever' by 'E. Squire, "Middlesbrough News" Office, 12, Royal Exchange, Middlesbrough'. The article is headed 'THE MARCH OF LOYALTY' and begins by declaring that 'Mr. Edwin Squire, of Middlesbrough, has just been favoured with the smile of Royalty.' Excessively scarce: no copy of this item in any form on COPAC, and no record on BBTI of either Megson or Squire, or of Squire's song. The 'Will' is divided into fifteen paragraphs, with paragraph IX stating of Constantinople, 'He who shall reign there will be the true sovereign of the world.' Regardless of the report in the New York Times, 21 February 1904, that this 'strange document' - 'Peter the Great's Secret Will' - was 'kept in the Romanoff archives in the Peterhof Palace near St. Petersburg', Peter's 'will' is a forgery on a parr with the Zinoviev Letter or Protocols of the Elders of Zion. According to one authority 'Western circles tend to quote from the so-called ‘Testament of Peter the Great’, a forgery from the Napoleonic Wars, to pinpoint Russia’s eternal strife for Anti-Western imperialism and for aggressive annexation of its neighbours. For the Nazis, the ‘Testament’ was an instrument of propaganda as much as for U.S. President Truman and for strategists of the State Department like George Kennan or Zbigniew Brzezinski'. See Albert Resis, 'Russophobia and the "Testament" of Peter the Great, 1812-1980'; Slavic Review 44 (1985), S. 681-693. £280.00

14538. D. T. Jones, M.A., LL.B., Director of Education for Pembrokeshire: [National Union of Teachers pamphlet.] The Salvation of Education in the Rural Areas. An Address delivered to the Meeting of Rural School Teachers at the Britghton Conference of the N.U.T., 1934.

National Union of Teachers, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London, WC1. [1934.] 18pp., 8vo. Stitched. With stamp, shelfmark and label of the Board of Education. Otherwise in good condition, on aged paper. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC. £60.00

14539. Dr. A. P. Laurie [Arthur Pillans Laurie (1861-1949)], Principal, Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh: [Printed pamphlet.] Technical Education. Reprinted from "The Scottish Review".

Edinburgh, London, Dublin, and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons. 31pp., 12mo. Stitched. In good condition, on aged paper. With stamp, shelfmark and label of the Board of Education Reference Library. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC or WorldCat. £50.00

14573. Dr. W. Alfred Richardson, O.B.E., Chairman of the Education Sub-Committee of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce: [Printed memorandum.] The

Association of British Chambers of Commerce. Further Education. Memorandum on the Training of Artisans in Great Britain and on the Continent Prepared by Dr. W. Alfred Richardson, O.B.E.

The Women's Printing Society, Ltd., 31-35, Brick Street, Piccadilly, W1. [London.] 18 February 1938. 7pp., 12mo. Stapled and unbound. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, with rusted staples, and shelfmarks, stamp and label of the Board of Education Reference Library. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC. £50.00

14540. E.T. Leeke, M.A., Chancellor and Canon of Lincoln Cathedral, Chairman, Executive Committee of the Lincoln Diocesan Board of Education; R. Caldwell Minton, Organising Teacher for the Diocese of Lincoln: [Pamphlet.] The Voluntary School Bill, 1897. The "Association Clauses" examined, and a suggestion as to the definition of the "Areas".

Lincoln: Keyworth & Sons, Printers, Swanpool Court. 4 March 1897. 10pp., 12mo. Stapled. With 'Urgent & Important' notice (1p., 12mo) on 'The Voluntary Schools Bill' by the same authors (dated 'Lincoln, March 8th, 1897.') loosely inserted. With stamp, shelf-marks and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in fair condition, on lightly-aged and worn paper. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, or on COPAC. £60.00

14574. Earl of Ducie, Chairman of the Committee [The Rev. W. J. Selby, The Vicarage, Churcham, near Gloucester, Secretary; County of Gloucester and Dioceses of Gloucester and Bristol]: [Printed report.] Examination and Inspection of Secondary Schools in the County of Gloucester and Dioceses of Gloucester and Bristol. 14th Annual Report 1899.

Gloucester: Minchin and Gibbs, Printers and Booksellers, Westgate Street. [1899.] 10pp., 12mo. Stitched and unbound. In good condition, on aged paper. With stamp, shelf-mark and label of the Board of Education Reference Library. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC. £50.00

10007. Edward King, editor [The Richmond Athenaeum and the Selborne Society (Lower Thames Valley branch)]: [1889 pamphlet.] Illustrated Catalogue and Programme of Music of the May Day Conversazione and Exhibition, in connection with the Richmond Athenaeum and the Selborne Society (Lower Thames Valley Branch,) held at the Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond.

On Wednesday, May 1st, 1889. ['Richmond, Surrey: Edited and Printed by Edward King, "Times" Steam Printing Works.'] 4to, 68 + viii pp. Frontispiece and eight plates, as well as numerous illustrations in text. In original printed wraps, with advertisements. Eight pages of advertisements at end. Text and illustrations clear and complete. A scarce item (the only copy on COPAC at the V & A Libraries) on aged paper, in chipped and worn wraps, with title page creased, and some sections detached. Inscribed by the editor, at head of front wrap, 'From Edward King | to his Brother Savage W. Linnell | In Memory of a joyous afternoon in Venice. | Nov. 3/94.' A nicely printed item, whose purpose, according to the 'Note by the Editor', is to 'be the means of inspiring a fresh interest in the Arts, the Sylvan Beauties, the

Literature, the Natural History, and the Antiquities of the Lower Thames Valley'. The plates include portraits of Sir Frederick Leighton, J. M. W. Turner and Sir Richard Owen. £95.00

14507. F. Brocklehurst, M.A. [Technical Instruction Committee of the Corporation of Manchester; Manchester Evening News]: [Printed offprint, 'Reprinted - by permission - from the "Labour and Progress" column of the Manchester Evening News'.] Technical Education. Messrs. S. Z. de Ferranti's Scholarship Scheme.

Issued by the Technical Instruction Committee of the Corporation of Manchester. July 1900. 10 + [1] pp., 12mo. Stitched, in grey printed wraps. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with central vertical fold line, and stamp, shelfmark and labels of the Board of Education Library. Scarce: no copy at the British Library, and the only copy on Copac at the London School of Economics. £60.00

13432. [Television History] F. C. McLean, C.B.E., B.Sc., M.I.E.E., Director of Engineering, British Broadcasting Corporation [The Institution of Electrical and Electronics Technician Engineers Limited; BBC]: [Mimeographed typescript.] I.E.E.T.E. London Meeting. Future Developments in Television.

[The Institution of Electrical and Electronics Technician Engineers Limited] I.E.E. Lecture Theatre, Savoy Place, London, W.C.2. 1966. [1] + 14 pp., foolscap 8vo. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper, with last leaf loose. '16 DEC 1965' stamped on title and first page. Discussing such issues as 'colour service', 'improvements in performance of receivers' and 'Recording of television signals'. From the archive of Pat Hawker, and marked up by him. No other copy traced £220.00

14541. F. H. Pruen, M.A., Secretary to the University of Durham Secondary Schools Committee, Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: [Pamphlet.] University of Durham. Secondary Schools Committee. Regulations for the Award of Higher Certificates, 1920.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Andrew Reid and Company, Ltd, Printing Court Buildings. [1920.] 27pp., 12mo. Stapled. In pink printed wraps. With stamps, shelfmarks and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Scarce: no copy at the British Library, or on COPAC. £60.00

14542. G. E. Shuttleworth, B.A., M.D., &c., President Thames Valley Branch, British Medical Association, formerly Medical Superintendent of the Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster: [Pamphlet.] Mental Overstrain in Education. Reprinted frrom The Lancet, August 22, 1896.

Printed at the Lancet Office, 423, Strand, [London] W.C. [1896.] 11pp., 12mo. Stitched. With stamp, shelf-marks and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC in the library of the Royal College of Surgeons. £45.00

14575. G. R. Wakefield [George Rodney Eden, Bishop of Wakefield], Chairman, Church Assembly Education Commission: [Printed pamphlet.] Church Assembly. Third Report of the Education Commission.

Printed by J. B. Nichols & Sons, Parliament Mansions, Orchard Street, Vicctoria Street, Westminster, SW1. October 1926. 10pp., 12mo. Stapled and unbound. With Stamps, shelf-marks and label of the Board of Education Reference Library. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC. £40.00

14543. George A. Spottiswoode [Spottiswoode & Co., printers]: [Pamphlet.] A Scheme for meeting the Religious Difficulty in all Public Elementary Schools, and for affording adequate Financial Relief to Voluntary Schools.

3 Cadogan Square, [London] SW. 10 December 1894. Printed and Published by Spottiswoode & Co. New-street Square, London. 8pp., 12mo. Stitched. With stamps, shelfmark and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in fair condition, on aged paper. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC at Oxford. £60.00

9905. George Fox [The Juvenile Troupe; J. E. Nolan; The Royal Aquarium and Winter Garden, London; Hutchins & Romer, Conduit Street]: [Printed handbill libretto.] The House that Jack built. A Nursery Cantata. With Solos, Choruses, and Incidental Music, Composed expressly for the Royal Aquarium, by Mr. George Fox. The Juvenile Troupe, Under the Direction of Mr. J. E. Nolan.

[Circa 1880.] 'The Music Published by Messrs Hutchins & Romer, Conduit Street, Regent Street'. Small 4to, 4 pp. Bifolium. Text clear and complete. Fair, on browned high-acidity paper. Neat strip of stub from mounting in album still adhering to inner margin of verso of second leaf. Headed 'Words.' All but first chorus in double-column. A mixture of the original 'House that Jack built' with 'Jack and Jill'. Begins with 'Chorus. - "This is the house that Jack built."', the first lines of which are 'Our labours are done, our recompense won, | And anger has been on no back spilt, | So now with one voice we'll laugh and rejoice | As this is the house that Jack built.' Characters are: Mr. Jack, Workmen, Architect, The Man all Tattered and Torn, Monks, Priest and Arietta. Songs include 'Fair is my love', 'How now, what's the reason', 'This is the Rat', 'The Milkmaid all forlorn' and They call me the man all tattered and torn'. Scarce: no copy on COPAC, which does list two copies (British Library and Oxford) of a 52-page vocal score for 'The House That Jack Built. A Dramatic Cantata For Children's Voices, with full orchestral and separate pianoforte accompaniment. Composed by George Fox.', also published by Hutchins and Romer. £56.00

3345. George Sand [Georges Sand], French authoress, author: [Book] The enchanted lake, a tale.

London: W. Tweedie, 337, Strand. No date (but circa 1855). 16mo. 194 pages. In original stamped binding. Grubby and spotted, with wear to binding and fraying at foot of spine. Lithographic frontispiece and title by W. Monkhouse of York. Translation of 'La mare au

diable', preceded by 27-page memoir. Possibly a piracy of Francis George Shaw's 1850 edition (London: George Slater). No copy in British Library. £50.00

13410. Graham Bower [Sir Graham John Bower, RN] (1848-1933), Irish-born British colonial official, Imperial Secretary to High Commissioners for Southern Africa, 1884-1897 [Parliament; House of Lords]: [Printed pamphlet in defence of the British House of Lords.] Civilisation and the Constitution. A Catechism.

Without place or date. [South Africa, 1880s or 1890s.] 2pp., 4to. On the rectos of the two leaves of a bifolium. Signed in type at end 'GRAHAM BOWER.' On laid paper with 'SOUTHERN CROSS | FINE QUALITY' watermark, suggesting, with the typographic style, that it was written during the period of that he served as Imperial Secretary. Very good, on lightly aged and creased paper. Consisting of nineteen answers to questions ranging from 'What is civilisation?' to 'But in England people are too civilised to act oppressively or unjustly?' and 'How can we protect the People against log rolling?' Bower's point of view is that Britain needs 'an efficient Second Chamber which shall have power to refer all doubtful questions to the people for decision. This Second Chamber might be either elective or nominee or indirectly elective, or hereditary, and the reference to the People might be either by referendum that is by putting a direct question to the people or by a general election. But the referendum, that is to say, the direct vote of the People is the more just and satisfactory of the two.' To the last question, 'Is it true that the question before us is that of Peers versus People?', Bower replies: 'It is not true, and the Peers are fighting for the Veto of the People. It is true therefore to say that the Peers are for the People. For Freedom and for civilisation.' Excessively scarce: no copies on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat, and no reference to it in the monograph by Schreuder and Butler, 'Sir Graham Bower's secret history of the Jameson Raid and the the South African crisis, 1895-1902' (Van Riebeeck Society, 2002). £120.00

14544. Henry Corby, B.A., M.D., M.Ch., F.O.S.L., Professor, Queen's College, Cork: [Pamphlet.] Technical Education: A National Necessity. Its Uses and Advantages.

Cork: J. Mahony, Cork Printing Hall, 36 & 37, Cook St. 1896. 38pp., 8vo. Stapled. In printed wraps. With stamps, shelfmarks and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC. £70.00

3950. Henry Hobhouse [MAIDSTONE, KENT]: Printed governmental circular (in form of facsimile of manuscript) addressed to 'The Town Clerk' (with 'Town of Maidstone' in manuscript).

'Copy | Whitehall July 1827.' Hobhouse (1776-1854) was a Privy Councillor in 1828, and Keeper of the State Papers, 1826-54. Quarto. One page. Very good, on first leaf of bifoliate. Folded twice. On watermarked Whatman paper of 1827. Facsimile signature 'H. Hobhouse'. Begins 'The King having been pleased to comply with the prayer of an humble Address presented to His Majesty in pursuance of a Resolution of the House of Commons [...] for a Return of all Towns Cities Places of Jurisdiction within England & Wales' and ending 'I am directed by Mr. Secretary Sturges Bourne to determine that you will prepare the said Return

for the [next three words in MS] Town of Maidstone and transmit them to me in order that they may be laid before the House of Commons accordingly.' £56.00

14648. Her Majesty's Stationery Office [HMSO; Victorian meteorology]: [Printed HMSO pamphlet.] Barometer Card and Storm-Warning Signals.

London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. For Her Majesty's Stationery Office. And sold by J. D. Potter, 31, Poultry, and 11, King Street, Tower Hill. 1861. 5pp., 8vo. On two bifoliums, with four of the eight sides blank, with the reason for the arrangement stated at the head of the title: 'N.B. - The four pages following this Title may be separated, and pasted on a board.' In fair condition, on aged paper, with remains of the paper on which the two bifoliums were mounted on the blank reverses of the second leaves of both. Contemporary ownership inscription at head of title of William Dole Bushell of Taff Vale Railway. The pamphlet contains two pages of text describing the use of a 'staff and two canvas shapes' to make various signals, a page of diagrams of these 'Cautionary Signals' and 'Night Signals', and another page carrying 'contractions' and a 'Summary'. The text concludes: 'It should be kept in mind that these signals are merely cautionary, to give notice of much atmospheric disturbance over some considerable part of the British Islands, without being in the least degree compulsory, or interfering with individual judgment on any occasion.' This item is excessively scarce: no copy has been traced either on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat. £135.00

14576. J. Duckworth, Organising Superintendent, City of Carlisle Education Committee: [Printed pamphlet.] City of Carlisle Education Committee. Reorganisation of Schools. Detailed Scheme.

29 March 1923. 20pp., 12mo. Stapled and unbound. In fair condition, on aged paper, with shelfmark (of the Board of Education Reference Library). Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC. £40.00

14545. J. H. Reynolds, Director and Secretary, Technical Instruction Committee, Manchester: [Pamphlet by the City of Manchester Technical Instruction Committee.] Report of a Visit to Technical Colleges, Institutions, Schools, Libraries, Museums, and Works in the United States and Canada, April and May, 1898.

Manchester: Henry Blacklock & Co. Limited, Albert Square. [1898.] 67pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps. With stamp, shelfmark and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in fair condition, on aged and lightly-worn paper. No copy in the British Library; six copies on COPAC. £60.00

14508. J. Percival; W. Summers; H. Felkin; J. B. Paton [Associated Chambers of Commerce]: [Pamphlet.] Report on Commercial Education. Presented to the Associated Chambers of Commerce. 1887.

London: Isbister & Co., Ludgate Hill. [1887.] [Thomas Forman and Sons Printers, Nottingham.] 52pp., 4to. Stapled. Aged and worn, with slight loss to fore-edge of title. With label, stamp and shelf-mark of the Education Department Reference Library. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC at Leeds. £120.00

14509. J. T. Davis, Central Education Committee, Co-operative Union Limited: [Printed address.] What do Co-operators want from the State in the Matter of Education? Delivered at the Educational Conference, held at Scarborough, in connection with the 53rd Annual Co-operative Congress on Satureday, May 14th, 1921.

Printed by the Co-operative Printing Society Limited, 118 Corporation Street, Manchester; and published by7 the Co-operative Union Limited, Holyoake House, Hanover Street, Manchester. 1921. 11pp., 8vo. Stapled. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with slight rust to staples, with stamp, shelfmarks and label of the Board of Education Library. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC. £75.00

3951. J. Tyrer, engraver [King's Bench Prison, London]: Plan of the Rules of the King's Bench Prison. 'Drawn & Engraved by J. Tyrer.'

'Second Edition. Publish'd Oct. 12. 1813 by G. Stevens, No. 10, Borough Road.' Map of the Rules and environs in black, with central area coloured in orange pink and red. Paper dimensions roughly nine inches by six; print area roughly six and a half inches by four and three-quarters. In poor condition: folded three times, grubby and creased, and with one repaired closed tear. The 'Rules' was the area in the neighbourhood of the prison in which certain prisoners (primarily debtors) were permitted to live on giving proper security. From the Renier collection. Scarcely legible writing in contemporary hand on reverse. £68.00

3235. J.F. Dickson, translator.: The Pali Manuscript

Venice: Printed at the Monastery, 1881. Title continues: "Written on Papyrus preserved in the Library of the Armenian Monastery St. Lazaro." Pamphlet, green paper wraps, corners v. sl. turned but very good otherwise. Pp.36, sm. 8vo. Ordination of Buddhist priest, etc. COPAC records only one copy, at Birmingham, but dated 1875. No copy in BL. £150.00

11030. Jack London: [Printed pamphlet.] What Communities lose by the Competitive System. By Jack London, Author of "The Sea Wolf," "The People of the Abyss," "The War of the Classes," &c.

Second Edition [1901?]. London: The Twentieth Century Press, Limited, (Trade Union and 48 Hours), 37A Clerkenwell Green, E.C. 8vo, 12 pp. In original pink wraps (printed on all four sides), with photograph of London on front cover and 2-page list of 'Socialist Publications' on back wrap. A good copy, on lightly-aged paper, with minor rusting from staples. Preface, on inside front cover, states that London is 'one of the most brilliant writers of the day', and that the essay 'was awarded the prize in a contest held by the American "Cosmopolitan Magazine" in November, 1900'. Excessively Scarce: no copy in the British

Library, and only one copy on COPAC, with only two copies (one defective) of the first edition. £180.00

10828. John Brown (1810-1882), M.D., Scottish author, best-known for 'Rab and His Friends.': [Printed pamphlet.] "With Brains, Sir." By John Brown, M.D. Author of "Rab and His Friends".

Eighth edition. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1883. [Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to the Queen, and to the University.] 12mo, 32 pp. In original pink printed wraps. Text clear and complete. A fair, tight copy, on lightly-aged paper, in worn and chipped wraps. Taking as his text a well-known anecdote about the painter Opie, Brown discusses the nature of 'genius' (in something approaching the modern sense of the word). The final page carries a list of 'Books referred to.' Uncommon in any edition: the only copies of this edition on COPAC are at Edinburgh and St Andrews. £45.00

3952. John Dorlin Sandland [Richard Cobden; Liverpool]: Offprint of poem by 'ORION' entitled 'THE BURIAL OF RICHARD COBDEN', with MS note by Sandland acknowledging authorship.

'From THE ALBION, Liverpool, of Monday, April 10, 1865.' Dated in print 'Liverpool, Saturday, April 8, 1865.' Sandland was the author of 'The wanderer, and other poems' (1845). Roughly four and three quarto inches by seven and three-quarters. Grubby, folded twice and mounted on larger piece of light-green paper. Sonnet beginning 'ON they went with a step that was measured and slow' and concluding 'In this temple of quiet, where Nature is free, | Here they left in repose the Apostle of Peace.' MS reads (at head) 'To the Writer of | The Funeral of Mr Cobden | Morning Star Saturday April 8th. 1865' and (at foot) 'With the Respects of the writer | John D Sandland | 62 Chatham Street | Abercromby Square | Liverpool'. £125.00

3993. John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquis of Bute: Facsimile of Autograph Letter Signed, sent as circular to town clerks of Scottish Burghs.

'Mount Stuart | Rothesay.' [no year, but 1897 or after] Scottish nobleman (1847-1900) and author. Two pages, folio. Folded twice. First leaf of a bifoliate. On very good paper watermarked 'J WHATMAN | 1897'. Very good, but second (blank) leaf of bifoliate somewhat grubby. Facsimile signature 'Bute'. Long letter announcing the completion of his 'Arms of the Royal and Parliamentary Burghs of Scotland' (Blackwood, 1897) and appealing for information for his forthcoming 'Arms of the Baronial and Police Burghs of Scotland' (Blackwood & Sons, 1903). 'In compiling it I have been indebted for help to the Courtesy of the Town Clerk of nearly every such Burgh in Scotland. The historical matter with which I have been brought in contact in the course of preparing it has been so extremely interesting that I have now in contemplation a similar Work dealing with the Arms of the Police Burghs'. Postscript asks for reply to be sent to Bute's collaborator on the book, 'J[ames]. R[obert]. N[icholson]. Macphail Esqr. 53, Castle Street, Edinburgh'. £25.00

14680. Jolly & Son, Ltd., Incorporated Auctioneers, The Auction Rooms, Charlotte Street, Bath: [Auction catalogue.] Library of Books which Jolly & Son, Ltd., Incorporated Auctioneers will sell by Auction on Friday, 5th May, 1939, commencing at two o'clock. [By direction of Mrs. Haynes-Smith, of Turleigh Mill House, Nr. Bath, and other Owners.]

Jolly & Son, Ltd., The Auction Rooms, Charlotte Street, Bath. [Harding & Curtis, Ltd., Bath.] 1939. 7pp., 8vo. Stapled. In poor condition, on aged and worn paper. The prices, and in most cases the names of the purchasers, are untidily given in pencil, the buyers seeming to be mainly members of the West Country trade, and including George [of Bristol], Grey, Lowe, Colbeck, Cox Towes, Brown, Williams. A collection strongly biased towards the English novel, with Henry James particularly well represented. A small collection of 'Dutch Books' features at the end of the sale. A scarce item, with no copy traced either on COPAC or on WorldCat. £120.00

14510. L. H. M. Soulsby [Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby] [education; schools]: [Printed offprint from the O. H. S. Magazine'.] Elementary Schools as a Career for High School Girls.

Without place, date or publisher. [Oxford, 1895.] 14pp., 12mo. Disbound. No wraps. Pencil shelfmark of the Board of Education Library at head of first page. No copy in the British Library, and the only copy on Copac at Oxford, which gives a tentative place and date, and also states that the item is reprinted from 'the O.H.S. Magazine'. £56.00

8340. Leon Trotsky [Trotskyite; W.I.R. Publications; British Communism Party; Communist]: The Class Nature of the Soviet Union. Two Articles by Leon Trotsky: 'Once Again; the U.S.S.R. and its Defence.' [...] 'The U.S.S.R.; Non-Proletarian and non-Bourgeoise State?' [With anonymous foreword discussing Trotsky's 'political tendency'.]

[Early 1960s.] 'Printed in Swansea by voluntary labour.' Published by W.I.R. Publications, 374, Grays Inn Rd., London W.C.I [cancelled to 'Order from W.I.R. Publications, 197, Kings Cross Road, London, W.C.1.'] Mimeographed and stapled. [i] + iii + 17 pp. Printed on eleven leaves, the first two and last two 26 x 21 cm, and the middle seven leaves 25.5 x 20 cm. Fair, on foxed paper with wear to extremities. It would appear that the leaves of the two articles had been printed previously, and were newly bound up here with the preliminary matter. The first articles is, according to the title 'Taken from "Fourth International", July Aug 1951. (American edition)' and the second 'Taken from "Workers International News", Sept-Oct 1946. (Then theoretical organ of the British section of the Fourth International.)' Simple sketch of Trotsky on cover. The 'Foreword' (pp.i-iii) is of interest. It attacks the 'period of Stalinist crimes, mistakes and outright betrayals in which all of the present leaders of the Communist movement participated right up to their necks', and supports 'the whole political

tendency which Trotsky so brilliantly defended'. 'Whilst the leadership of the British Communist Party dances a twist on these issues the C.P. leaderships in Italy and in France have been compelled to say something publicly. They try to shrug it off but the development of political events themselves will take a hand in the struggle between Bolshevism and Stalinism, between internationalism and nationalism, between revolution and counter-revolution.' The only copy on COPAC is at Glasgow, with the item dated to 1958. The reference at the beginning of the 'Foreword' to 'The cautious and limited declarations by Khrushchev at the 20th and 22nd Congresses' date this item to after 1961. £125.00

10811. Lucien Wolf (1857-1930), President of the Jewish Historical Society of England: [Offprint from the 'Jewish Chronicle'] The Treves Family in England: A Genealogical Sketch. By Lucien Wolf, Past President of the Jewish Historical Society of England, etc., etc..

London: "Jewish Chronicle" Office, 2, Finsbury Square, E.C. 1896. 8vo, 20 pp. In original grey printed wraps. Text clear and complete. A fair copy, on lightly-aged paper; wraps discoloured and chipped. Printed in small type, with 123 footnotes, and containing a mass of information. This separate printing is excessively scarce: no copy at the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC at Sheffield. £125.00

13496. Lyn Ta-kuang [The Chinese People's Committee for World Peace and Against American Agression; Germ Warfare; Biological Weapons]: Two variant publications of Chinese Communist propaganda pamphlet, 'The Case Against the U.S. Germ Warfare Criminals'.

[Place of publication not given in either copy.] Copy 1: 'The Chinese People's Committee for World Peace and against American Aggression'. Copy 2: 'Special Supplement | Daily News Release | 20 March, 1952'. Both copies 16pp., 12mo, and both stapled in white wraps. Copy 1: Published by the Chinese People's Committee for World Peace and Against American Aggression. Title printed in red. Name of author given at foot of last page: '---- By LIN TA-KUANG.' In fair condition, aged, and on browned high-acidity newsprint, in creased wraps. Copy 2: 'Daily News Release' copy. Title given in black. Apparently identical in its typesetting to Copy 1, but without the author's name. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper, with short pencil notes on cover and elsewhere. This pamphlet exists in a number of formats: and there are a total of nine copies listed worldwide on OCLC WorldCat; but none of those nine copies attribute the pamphlet to an author, and all nine number the pamphlet as part V - no such numbering being the case with either of the copies described here. From the Jack and Maire (Lynd) Gaster archive. £120.00

14511. Manchester Education Committee [Report, 1938]: [Printed booklet.] City of Manchester Education Committee | Report on the Reorganisation of the Public Elementary Schools, with reference to the provision of Municipal and Non-Provided Senior School Accommodation.-

[City of Manchester.] Approved by the Education Committee, July 18th, 1938. 73pp., 8vo. In grey printed card wraps. With fold-out map. Internally good, on aged paper; chipping to wraps and front cover detached. Stamp and shelfmark of the Board of Education Library on

title-page, and label of the Library on rear wrap. In brown OHMS envelope with manuscript details on front. No copy at the British Library, or on COPAC. £90.00

14512. Manchester Technical Instruction Committee [James Hoy, Chairman; J. H. Reynolds, Director and Secretary]: [Printed pamphlet.] City of Manchester. Technical Instruction Committee. Report of the Deputation appointed to visit Technical Schools, Institutions, and Museums in Germany and Austria. July and August, 1897.

Town Hall, Manchester, 16 September 1897. [Manchester: Henry Blacklock & Co. Limited, Printers, Albert Square.] 18pp., 8vo. Stapled. In blue printed wraps. Internally in good condition, on aged paper; the wraps worn, creased and chipped. With stamp, shelfmark and label of the Education Department Reference Library. No copy in the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC at Bristol. £90.00

10931. Martin Johnson; A. Blayney Percival [The East African Standard, Nairobi, Kenya Colony]: Kenya Colony. Camera Studies No. 1. ['By kind permission of Mr. Martin Johnson and Mr. A. Blayney Percival.']

[1920s?] 'Published, printed, and engraved by the East African Standard, Limited, Nairobi, Kenya Colony. 4to, 27 pp. Stitched with red thread. In original buff wraps, printed in red and black, with photograph of a Masai woman tipped in on front cover. Fair: slightly dog-eared, in worn wraps, with ownership inscription on front wrap. Printed on twenty-six leaves of art paper. Consisting of a covering page of text and 24 pp of captioned black-and-white photographs, two to each page, with two pages of advertisements at rear. Photographs of wildlife and members of the Meru, Masai, Wakamba, Samburu, Turkana, Waikikuyu tribes. Printed on rectos only, except for last page. Very scarce: no copy in the British Library, or on COPAC. Percival was a game ranger, and published two books on the subject in the 1920s. £110.00

9556. Matthew Robinson Boulton, son of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), the business partner of James Watt (1736-1819): [Printed handbill] 'An Account of the Quantity of Copper Coined by Mr. Boulton, Distinguishing the Amount of Twopenny Pieces, Penny Pieces, Halfpence, and Farthings into which it was coined, with the Nominal Value of each'.

'Ordered to be printed 7th June 1819.' Folio, 3 pp. Bifolium. Full title lengthwise (because intended to be folded into packet) on reverse of second leaf: 'An Account of the Quantity of Copper Coined by Mr. Boulton, Distinguishing the Amount of Twopenny Pieces, Penny Pieces, Halfpence, and Farthings into which it was coined, with the Nominal Value of each: And also, A Statement of the Market Price of Copper At the Time the Contracts were made with Mr. Boulton.' Text clear and complete. On aged and creased paper. The first page, with '(95.)' in bottom left-hand corner, prints the transcript of a letter from 'M. Robinson Boulton' to William Speer of the Treasury Chamber. Because of 'a Misconception of my Clerk', Boulton has sent an inaccurate account to the Lords Commissioners. 'I have therefore caused another Account to be prepared, with those Amounts substituted, which I will thank you to put into their Lordships Hands, with this Explanation.' Page 2 carries, lengthwise, three tables, the first giving 'An Account of Copper Money coined at Soho Mint by M. Boulton'.

And the second and third tables beneath the heading 'Summary'. The third pager carries a 'STATEMENT of the PRICES at which TOUGH CAKE COPPER was charged by the Subscription Copper-Smelting Companies at Birmingham to the Manufacturers, at the Dates of the Coinage Contracts, extracted from the printed Lists of Prices issued by them.' Five entries, between 1797 and 1807. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC. £125.00

9788. Oscar Browning, Writer, Historian, Educational Reformer.: [Printed] Private and Confidential. Letters Received from Colleagues and Others

[Eton, 1875] [46]pp. 4to, front paper wrap missing, back wrap blue, stained with with tiny hole at centre, sewn as issued, edges of text sl. frayed and stained, body of work good. Full title: "Letters Received from Colleagues and Others by Oscar Browning, Esq., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, Assistant Master at Eton College, In October 1875." Foreword "I print these Letters, a selection out of many which I have received during this trying time, as the best testimony I can offer of what the aim and object of my work has been since I have been a Master at Eton. OSCAR BROWNING. Eton, Nov. 1875. Letters from Parents (inc. Knatchbull-Hugessen, Brassey), from Private Friends (inc. Farrar, Head of Harrow, Sidgwick, Kegan Paul, Jebb), from Eton Masters, from Old Pupils, from Old Etonians Not My Pupils inc. Spring-Rice,Richmond Thackeray Ritchie). Apparently the Headmaster, Hornby, has treated Browning badly and dismissed him. Browning here publishes a fraction of the supportive letetrs he received. No copy listed on COPAC or WorldCat, but one present in the Norman Colbeck Collection at the University of British Columbia. Note: An explanation for his dismissal appears in Church Magazine (!) for "injudicious talk, his favourites, and his anarchic spirit". £180.00

14577. P. D. Innes, Chief Education Officer, City of Birmingham Education Committee; W. Byng Kenrick, Chairman of the Education Committee: [Printed report.] City of Birmingham Education Committee. Proposed New Buildings for Technical, Commercial and Art Education. Report on Visits made by a Deputation to Continental Technical Colleges and Educational Institutions April 3rd to 17th, 1935

Buckler & Webb Ltd., Birmingham. July 1935. 32pp., 4to. Stitched, in grey wraps. With photographs in text and three pages of plans (including two floor plans) at rear. Stamp, shelfmarks and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged paper, in worn wraps. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, or on COPAC. £135.00

14513. Philip Magnus [Sir Philip Magnus (1842-1933)], Director and Secretary of the London Institute: [Privately-printed pamphlet.] A Letter to Sir Frederick Bramwell, F.R.S., Chairman of the Executive Committee of the City and Guilds of the London

Institute, on Foreign Technical Schools, by Philip Magnus, Director and Secretary of the Institute.

Printed, by request, for the Members of the Council, but not intended for publication. [Circa 1882.] 17pp., 8vo. Stitched. With label and shelfmark of the Education Department Reference Library. The letter is dated on 19 June 1882, from Gresham College, London, EC. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, or on COPAC. £95.00

14548. Professor W. E. Dalby [William Ernest Dalby], M.I.Mech.E. [J. Hartley Wicksteed, President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers]: [Pamphlet.] The Education of Engineers in America, Germany, and Switzerland. Excerpt Minutes of Proceedings of the Meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, in London, 24th April 1903.

Published by the Institution, Storey's Gate, St. James's Park, Westminster, S.W. [1903.] 69pp., 8vo, paginated 281 to 349. In brown printed card covers. With shelf-marks and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in fair condition, on aged and worn paper. Scarce: no copy at the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. £75.00

14683. R. Miller [Robert Miller], bookseller, 24 Old Fish Street, Doctors' Commons, London [children's books; juvenile; toys; the Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820]: [Printed bookseller's catalogue with juvenile items and items relating to the Cato Street Conspiracy.] A Catalogue of Books & Fancy Articles, Published and Sold by R. Miller, 24, Old Fish Street, Doctors' Commons.

R. Miller, 24 Old Fish Street, Doctors' Commons, London. [Circa 1820.] 11pp., 32mo. Stitched and unbound. In fair condition, on aged paper. The books include 'The Cabinet History of England', 'Miller's County Atlas of England & Wales' and 'The Princess Charlotte's Hymn Book'. There are also 'Thirteen Toy Books', 'Threepenny Toy Books', 'Conversation Cards', 'Children's Picture Cards', 'Portraits of the Royal Family', 'The Spelling Alphabet' and 'Engraved Music Cards'. The following item, on p.7, helps date the catalogue: ''Plan of the Cato-Street Conspiracy; | Being a representation of the exterior of the Loft in which the Conspirators were assembled, at the moment when Arthur Thistlewood having stabbed Smithers, (who is supported by a brother officer), retreated into another room, from whence he made his escape, 1s. plain, 1s. 6d. coloured.' This is followed by a 'Portrait of Thistlewood, on a large card, with a memoir of his life, 3d. each.' BBTI has Miller trading at this address as a map seller in 1821, but he was certainly there in 1810. Scarce. No copy traced, either on COPAC or Worldcat, although the Bodleian does have an item with a similar title, associating Miller with Simpkin and Marshall. £120.00

14549. Rev. B. F. Smith, Archdeacon of Maidstone [The Church Congress]: [Pamphlet.] The Result of the Neglect of Religious Instruction in Elementary Schools. An Address delivered at the Folkestone Church Congress, Wednesday, October 5th, 1892.

Reprinted from the Official Report of the Church Congress by Bemrose & Sons, Limited, Derby; and 23, Old Bailey, London. [1892.] 4pp., 12mo. In grey printed wraps. With stamp, shelfmarks and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged and worn paper. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC. £45.00

7898. Rev. Francis P. Flemyng [Mary Addison]: Mauritius; Or, The Isle of France: Being an Account of the Island, Its History, Geography, Products, and Inhabitants.

[1862.] London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; Sold at the Depositories; 77, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields; 4, Royal Exchange; 48, Piccadilly; and by all booksellers. [London: R. Clay, Son, and Taylor, Printers.] 12mo: xiv + 256 + [ii] pp. Detailed fold-out map of the island, in black, blue and pink. Frontispiece and seventeen illustrations. A tight copy on lightly-aged paper, in worn original embossed green cloth binding, gilt. Map creased and with short closed tear. A nice copy of an interesting little book, bearing the bookplate of the botanist Mary Addison, to whom it was presented, according to an inscription on the front free endpaper, by the Reverend J. Hoding on 30 August 1867. A few neat synoptic notes in the margin, presumably by Addison. Four-page SPCK catalogue at rear. Surprisingly scarce: no copy at the British Library, and COPAC only lists copies at Oxford, SOAS, the National Library of Scotland and the Natural History Museum. £220.00

14551. Rev. J. H. Thorpe, B.D. [The Church Schools' Emergency League]: [Pamphlet.] Education Acts (Single School Areas) Amendment Bill. With Notes and an Introduction by the Rev. J. H. Thorpe, B.D.

Published by The Church Schools' Emergency League. Middleton: J. Verity, Printer, "The Electric Press". April 1912. 23pp., 12mo, paginated 97-119. Stapled. In grey printed wraps. With stamp, shelfmarks and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on aged paper. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC. £60.00

14552. Rev. Percy Dearmer, M.A. [The Christian Social Union]: Christian Social Union Pamphlet. No. 16. The Reform of the Poor Law.

Printed and published by A. R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., 34 Gt. Castle St., Oxford Circus, London, W., and 106 S. Aldate's, Oxford, February, 1908, for the Christian Social Union. 14 + [1]pp., 12mo. Stapled. Wtih stamp, shelfmark and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. No copy in the British Library, and only three copies on COPAC (Bishopsgate Institute, LSE and King's College London). £60.00

11611. Robert Lynd: [Printed] Why Irish should be Taught in the Belfast Technical School. A Reply to A. B. Wilson, Member of the Library and Technical Instruction Committee

[Belfast]: ‘Reprinted from the Northern Whig’, 1907. Pamphlet, 8pp, 12mo, printed wraps, good condition.No copy in NLI, TCD, or on COPAC, the last of which does however list a copy at the BL of a 1907 reply by Wilson to Lynd, titled Why should we teach Irish in the Municipal Technical Institute? etc. (Why Irish should be taught in the Belfast Technical School. A reply to A. B. Wilson by Robert Lynd. – Why Irish should not be taught). This item is listed in my catalogue, "Printed and Other Material From the Papers of Robert and Sylvia Lynd", all of Irish interest. Hard copy available. £100.00

10797. Samuel Spurrell, mesmerist [mesmerism; hypnotism; phrenology; James Quilter Rumball of the Royal College of Surgeons]: [Printed pamphlet.] Mesmeric Experiments at Public Lectures are little to be depended upon. Strikingly evidenced by a recent example at Maidstone. By Samuel Spurrell.

[August 1843.] Printed and Published for the Author, by J. Brown, Kent Arms Office, 87, Week Street, Maidstone. London: Harvey & Darton, Gracechurch Street. 12mo, 8 pp. Stitched. In original pink printed wraps. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, in worn and faded wraps. The pamphlet can be dated with precision from a reference to 'a periodical of extensive circulation, and of the present month', carrying an article entitled 'Mr. Rumball turned Mountebank'. An article of this title appeared in the 'Phreno-Magnet' for August, 1843. The pamphlet is an attack by Spurrell, a mesmerist, on the surgeon and lecturer James Quilter Rumball. Spurrell states that his 'first knowledge of J. Q. Rumball, Esq. was derived from seeing his prospectus placarded in the shop-windows here. Looking at one of them, and just as I had finished it, a friend passing, asked what I had been looking at? I replied, - "You have a Phrenological Lecturer of high pretension, according to his own announcement, at hand, and who, among other extraordinary feats to be performed, undertakes not merely to disprove Mesmerism by Phrenology, but farther, to prove that most mesmeric operators and ALL their patients are rank cheats.' Excessively scarce: no copy at the British Library or on COPAC, the latter listing two items by Spurrell: 'The Deposit Enigma Unravelled' (1841) and 'The Rationale of Magnetism, Animal and Mental' (1844). £250.00

14631. Sidney Herbert, Balliol College, President, The New Tory Club, Oxford [Captain Sir Sidney Herbert (1890-1939), Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1923-24 and 1924-27]: [The New Tory Club, Oxford.] Three printed items: list of officers and members on poster; seating plan for dinner of 'The United Club and the New Tory Club', and menu. With TLS from John Boraston of Liberal Unionist Council to E. W. Benison.

The list of officers and members, Hilary Term, 1911. The seating plan, 10 May 1912. The menu, 24 November 1911. Boraston's letter on letterhead of Liberal Unionist Council, London. 10 May 1910. The list of officers and members is printed on one side of a piece of 49 x 31 cm paper. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper, with slight damage caused by removal from an album. The Club's President is named as Herbert, the Treasurer as Viscount Wolmer MP of University College, and the Secretary as E. W. Benison of Magdalen. Five committee members are named, followed by the members in alphabetical order in two columns, from 'Amery, L. S., All Souls College' to 'Yerburgh, R. D. T., University College'. The seating plan for the dinner of the United Club and the New Tory Club is on one side of a piece of 20.5 x 26 cm paper. Aged and worn, with short closed tear along one fold line. The

dinner is a grand affair, with several Members of Parliament and representatives of the Central News, Daily Telegraph, Morning Post, Press Exchange, Exchange Telegraph Co., and Oxford Times. The menu is a tasteful affair, 2pp., 12mo., attached to card wraps printed in blue with red, white and blue ribbon. In good condition, lightly-aged. Boraston's letter is 1p., 4to. It is on aged paper, and has some loss to one corner caused by over-hasty removal from an album. It reads: 'I congratulate you heartily upon your success in forming the Unionist Club at Oxford about which you spoke to me when you called with Mr Sidney Herbert. I shall watch the career of the Club with interest and shall be glad to give it any assistance in my power.' Nothing relating to The New Tory Club listed on COPAC/WorldCat. £220.00

11596. Sidney L. Gulick [Sidney Lewis Gulick (1860-1945); Matsuyama Factory Girls' Home, Japan]: [Printed pamphlet.] A Sociological Experiment among Factory Girls. A Report of the Matsuyama Factory Girls' Home.

Dated 1 August 1907. 12pp., 4to, plus three leaves of plates on art paper. Stapled, in original buff printed wraps. A fragile item. Fair, on aged high-acidity paper, in chipped and worn wraps. Images captioned 'The First Photograph of the Sympathy Society', 'At School', 'At Play' and 'The Home'. Sections on the conversion of Shinjiro Omoto, and the 'Sympathy Home' ('Dojokwan'). Final 'Financial Statement' and 'Plans for Enlargement'. No copy on COPAC. £180.00

14096. Sir Henry Howe Bemrose (1827-1911), printer and Conservative politician [The Bemrose Library of Derbyshire Books; Derby Public Library; George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston]: [Offprint from the Derbyshire Advertiser.] The Bemrose Library of Derbyshire Books. | Important Letter from Lord Curzon. | The Scheme adopted.

'Reprinted from the Derbyshire Advertiser, October 3rd, 1913.' 4pp., 8vo. Bifolium. Good, on aged paper. Printed in small type. Curzon's letter, dated from Kedleston, 30 September 1913, is a long report, covering the first two pages of the document, describing his efforts to 'remove from the town and country the great reproach of losing a library devoted to Derbyshire persons and subjects' by securing it for the Borough of Derby. The third page of the document carries 'an appeal made by Lord Curzon of Kedleston to residents in the County and Borough of Derby', headed 'Lord Curzon and the Derby Free Library. | An Appeal to Derbyshire.' The last page is mostly taken up with a section titled 'The Bemrose Library. Interesting Details of a Unique Collection.' Scarce: no copy on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat. In 1914 the Bemrose Library was transferred to a purpose-built extension in Derby Library. £95.00

13595. The Artists' International [The Artists' International Association (AIA); Edward Ardizzone; Pearl Binder; Misha Black; James Boswell; James Fitton; Duncan Grant; James Holland; Clifford Rowe]: Mimeographed pamphlet by the Artists' International, titled '18 cartoons | Why we are marching!', produced in support of the NUWM National Hunger March against the National Insurance Bill, 1934.

The Secretary [A. L. Meblin], The Artists' International, 65 Marchmont Street, WC1. [London, 1934.] An important piece of British social history, this is an excessively scarce item, with no record whatsoever on Copac, WorldCat or the web. It derives from the papers of the anthropologist J. H. Driberg, whose wife Pearl Binder (later Lady Elwyn Jones) was a member of the Artists' International. It is a 4to pamphlet of 35 pp., of which 21pp. are in 4to, and 14pp. in smaller formats. Each page is mimeographed on one side of a leaf. Stapled into orange wraps, the cover carrying a striking silkscreened semi-abstract design of a crowd of marching men and women, with '18 cartoons' in the top left-hand corner and 'WHY WE ARE MARCHING!' at the foot. Rusting of the single staple has caused the pamphlet to become detached from the wraps, with the final few pages loose; otherwise internally in good condition on aged paper, with slight wear and a couple of short closed tears to the worn wraps. The 18 cartoons are all 4to, and are interleaved with 14pp. of polemical typed text (see below for headings) on slips of varying sizes. Of the seventeen typed pages, only three are full 4to: the first page titled 'WHY WE ARE FIGHTING!', and at the end, an essay 'OUR DEMANDS! and a page of publication details, reading: 'THE ARTISTS' INTERNATIONAL, which produced this book, was founded during September 1933. | The Artists' International stands for the International unity of artists against Fascism, against Imperialist war, and against war on the Soviet Union, and for the United Front of artists with the working class against all capitalist oppression. | We invite all professional, commercial, and worker artist [sic] to join our organisation. | The Secretary, 65 Marchmont Street, W.C.1. | Terminus 3969.' The Artists' International (later the Artists' International Association) was founded in 1933. The present item is its contribution to the National Hunger Strike of 1934, organised by the National Unemployed Workers' Movement (a Communist Party of Great Britain offshoot). The headings on the fourteen slips are: 'Medical evidence of starvation'; 'Age of entry to the scheme'; 'Defendants' benefit'; 'Benefit period'; 'Unable to obtain suitable employment'; 'When is a person unemployed?'; 'Trades disputes section'; 'Exhausted statutory benefit'; 'Appeals to the umpire'; 'Forced labour conditions'; 'Voluntary leaving employment of discharge for misconduct'; 'Training and instruction for young workers'; 'It is a fascist scheme'; 'What is to be done?' The pamphlet states, in the 'What is to be done?' section: 'Workers are marching through the towns and villages of this country down to the great National Congress to be held in London on February 24th, so that the whole country can be aroused to kill this Bill and to strike a deadly blow against capitalism.' The Artists' International was formed in London in 1933 as a fellow-travelling organisation, as a result of discussions between Pearl Binder, Clifford Rowe, Misha Black, James Fitton, James Boswell, James Holland and Edward Ardizzone. The present item dates from its earliest period: the few months before it was reconstituted as the Artists' International Association in 1935, with its first large show 'Artists Against Fascism and War'. While the cartoons in this pamphlet are clearly by a number of different artists with various styles and approaches, only four of the pieces are signed ('TG', 'Pl.', 'P' and 'Rowe'), the aim of the group being to promote the cause rather than the individual. One unsigned cartoon ('Ladies and gents! The working classes will now go through the hoop.') is strongly in the style of Ardizzone. The group abandoned its original objectives in 1953, continuing to 1971 as an exhibiting society. For more information see T. Rickaby, 'The Artists' International' (in Block, no. 1, 1979); R. Radford, Art for a purpose. The Artist's International Association 1933-1953 (Winchester, 1987) and R. Radford and L. Morris, 'A.I.A.: Story of the Artists' International Association,1933-53 (Oxford, 1983). £450.00

14632. The Compatriots' Club, London, unofficial grouping of Conservative politicians 'to advance the ideal of a United British Empire', 1904-1914: [Printed pamphlet.] Rules of the Compatriots' Club.

[London. Circa 1904.] 4pp., 4to. Bifolium. On aged and worn paper, with slight damage caused by removal from an album. The first leaf of the document carries fifteen numbered rules; and the second leaf carries a 'List of Members', with Joseph Chamberlain as President; Viscount Milner as Chairman of Executive Committee, and Honorary Treasurer Viscount Ridley, and including the Duke of Bedford, Bonar Law, and the publisher John Murray. At the foot of the final page is a list of 'Foundation Members' of the 'South African Branch Compatriots' Club'. Scarce: Ewen Green, in his 'The Ideals of Empire' (Routledge, 1998)], states that 'no archive of the Club appears to have survived and there is no systematic record of its activities'. £280.00

14516. The Farmers' Club, Salisbury Square Hotel, Fleet Street, London, EC [J. R. Eve, vice-chairman]: [Printed pamphlet.] Journal of the Farmers' Club. Foreign Agricultural Education.

The Farmers' Club, Salisbury Square Hotel, Fleet Street, London, EC. October 1899. 20pp., small 4to. Stapled. Without wraps. From the Board of Education reference library, and with its shelf-mark at foot of first page. Scarce: no copy at the British Library, and none on COPAC. £56.00

14554. The Hon. E. Lyulph Stanley [National Education Association]: [Pamphlet.] The Advantages of the School Board System. By the Hon. E. Lyulph Stanley.

Outer Temple, Strand, W.C. [Co-operative Printing Society Limited, 6, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C. [Circa 1893.] 23pp., 12mo. Stapled. Number 65 in a series. With stamp, shelf-marks and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in fair condition, on aged and worn paper. Scarce: no copy at the British Library, or on COPAC. £60.00

11023. The Institute of Mesmerism and Phrenology, London, established in 1844 [W. J. Vernon, mesmerist]: Handbill for the London 'Institute of Mesmerism and Phrenology (Established 1844,) 27, Duke Street, Manchester Square.'

[1850s? London..] Printed on one side of a piece of laid paper, 11 x 17 cm. Twenty-two lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, with small hole in margin and traces on reverse of mounting. Advertises 'Mesmeric morning and evening séances', 'A mesmeric and phrenological society held at the Institute', and 'Phrenological Manipulations'. 'The object of this Institute' is said to be 'to extend the knowledge of MESMERISM and PHRENOLOGY, and their application in the treatment of Disease, and the alleviation of pain attendant on Surgical operations'. The 'great value of Mesmerism and Phrenology as Therapeutic agents' is said to have been proved in a number of ailments, including 'Tic Doloreux', 'St. Vitus' Dance', 'Low Spirits' and 'Female Complaints'. A scarce piece of ephemera, there being no reference to this item, or to any other relating to the Institute, on COPAC. In 1845 the Athenaeum

magazine advertised 'Demonstrations of Mesmerism and Clairvoyance every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, by Mr. W. J. Vernon' at the Institute. £75.00

12642. The Quartermaster General's Branch (Movements Directorate) G.H.Q. (India) [Brigadier V. Boucher; Captain A. S. Morris, Royal Engineers]: [Printed Second World War pamphlet.] Homeward Bound. Issued by the Quartermaster General's Branch (Movements Directorate) G.H.Q. (India). Cover and sketches by Capt. A. S. Morris, R.E.

'GIPD - M 2079 Army - 12-12-44 - 5,000.' 12 December 1944. [6] + 28pp., 12mo. In coloured illustrative wraps. Morris's illustrations are light and fresh, the first being a caricature of 'the enemy': a sour-looking bespectacled Japanese army officer. The first section, which it illustrates, is on 'Security' and concludes: 'Remember that in disposing of household effects, releasing servants from employment, etc., you may easily give away too much information. Be guarded; it is YOUR life too that is in danger this time.' The volume is entertainingly-written, and paints a vivid picture of the logistical niceties facing the British armed forces at the end of the war. One piece of advice, illustrated with another Morris cartoon, is: 'If you have a "double-barrelled" name, sink your pride and use one name only. You will not enjoy searching amongst piles of Baggage under two letters in the Customs Sheds on your arrival.' The pamphlet is divided into four sections: Preparations; Movement to the Port; Embarkation and the Voyage; Arrival in the United Kingdom. Subsections include: 'Vaccination Certificate', 'Pre-Censorship', 'Pets', 'Despatches from Stations in India', 'Clothing Coupons' and 'Ration Cards'. Scarce: no copy on COPAC or OCLC. £120.00

14517. The Right Rev. Dr. Henson [Hebert Hensley Henson (1863-1947)], Bishop of Durham: [Pamphlet.] Democracy and Education. An address. The Right Rev. Dr. Henson (Bishop of Durham). At a meeting held at Scarborough, on Tuesday, 17th May, 1921, in connection with the 53rd Annual Congress of the Co-operative Union.

Published by the Co-operative Union Limited, Holyoake House, Hanover Street, Manchester: and printed by the Co-operative Printing Society Limited, 118 Corporation Street, Manchester. 1921. 11pp, 12mo. Stapled, in printed wraps. With stamp, label and shelfmark of the Board of Education Reference Library. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, and no copy on COPAC. £80.00

14555. The Rt. Hon. Lord Sheffield [National Education Association]: [Pamphlet.] The Dual System. Proposals for abolishing the "Dual System" in Elementary Schools by an Agreement for the Transfer on Terms of the Church of England Schools.

National Education Association, Caxton House, Westminster [London], SW1. [Co-operative Printing Society Limited, Tudor Street, London EC. [Circa 1923] 11 + [1]pp., 12mo. Stapled. With stamp, shelfmarks and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in fair condition, on aged and worn paper. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, or on COPAC. £60.00

14556. The Ven. J. M. Wilson, M.A., Vicar of Rochdale; and Archdeacon of Manchester.: [Pamphlet.] Decentralization and Local Education Authorities. An Address delivered at the Church Congress, Shrewsbury, October, 1896.

Reprinted from the Official Report of the Church Congress by Bemrose and Sons, Limited, Derby; and London. [1896.] 5pp., 12mo. Unbound. With stamp, shelfmark and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Scarce: no copy at the British Library or on COPAC. £60.00

4118. Theodor Fischer: Vagabondlif i Australien.

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag. 1879. Small octavo. 124 pages. Four illustrations (pages, 9, 11, 76 and 100), including one of kangaroos and another of 'King Okalia with suite'. Good, in worn late 19th/early 20th century binding. Front wrap (with illustration of aborigine throwing spear) bound in. Bookplate of Gunnar von Heideken, and neat initials of 'F. V. Hen' at head of wrap. Apparently an account of a stay in the area of Adelaide. Includes glosses in Swedish of such words as boomerangs, bushrangers, waddies, piccaniny and swag. Intriguing (to non-Swedish speakers) mention of Lord Byron and Dick Turpin. £250.00

14557. Thomas Oliver, D.Sc., Edin.; B.Sc., Lond. [The Border Standard, Galashiels, Scotland]: [Pamphlet.] Avoid Narrow Specialisation: A Lecture. 27th September, 1911. (Reprinted from "The Border Standard.")

[The Border Standard, Galashiels, Scotland. 1911.] 15pp., 16mo. Stapled. With stamp, shelfmark and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Scarce: no copy at the British Library, or on COPAC. £70.00

10965. Thomas Powell (1802-1886), Rector of Dorstone [The Golden Valley, Herefordshire]: [Printed pamphlet.] The Golden Valley, Herefordshire, by Thomas Powell, Rector of Dorstone. [The Golden Valley: Its Parishes; Its Beauties; Its Salubrity; The Objects of Interest. A Trip for a Day.]

Hereford: Printed by Jakeman and Carver, Printers, Widemarsh Street, High Town, Hereford. [1880s] 12mo, [iv] + 48 pp. In original brown printed wraps. Text clear and complete. Aged and lightly worn, with slight staining to edges of wraps. Can be dated to the 1880s, as Powell died in 1886, and the latest date in the text is 1881. Preface: 'This little work professes to give merely a sketch of the objects of beauty and interest to be found in The Golden Valley. The Landscape-Painter, the Archaeologist, the Botanist, the Historian, will there find ample occupation. | The sick and the sorrowing, in its repose and freshment, will find health and solace; and the careworn will find amusement on the banks of its beautiful stream.' Sections on Abbey Dore, Bacton, Turnaston, Vowchurch, Peterchurch (with 'Snodhill Castle'), Dorstone, with a final section of 'General Remarks', including accounts of two hauntings ('visionary deceptions'), with the second given 'in the phraseology of the narrator'. Excessively scarce: no copy in the British Library, on COPAC or WorldCat. £120.00

14518. Thomas Snape, William Lees McClure, J. A. Bennion [Lancashire County Council; T. Snape & Co., printers, Preston]: [Printed booklet.] Report to the Lancashire County Council on some Silk, Horological, and Mining Schools of France, Germany, and Switzerland (October and November, 1893).

County Offices, Preston. 13 January 1894. [Preston: Printed by T. Snape & Co., 141, Church Street and Bolton's Court. 1894.] 53pp., 8vo. Stitched. In grey printed wraps. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Stamps, shelfmark and labels of the Board of Education library to wraps. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC at Oxford. £120.00

14558. Ven. J. M. Wilson, M.A., Archdeacon of Manchester: [Pamphlet.] The Next Steps in Elementary Education from the Point of View of the Children. A Paper read at the Church Congress, Nottingham, September, 1897.

Reprinted from the official report of the Church Congress, by Hemrose and Sons, Limited, Derby and London. [1897.] 9pp., 8vo. Unbound. With stamp, shelfmarks and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged and worn paper. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC. £60.00

14559. Vice-Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, C.B., M.P., et al. [The Navy League]: [Pamphlet.] Educational Series. The Work of the Navy League in Schools. Articles contributed by Masters of Public and Preparatory Schools to the Navy League Journal, 1902.

London: Published by The Navy League, 13 Victoria Street, Westminster, [London] SW. 1903. 32pp., 12mo. Stapled. In cream printed wraps. Reprinted 13 articles by a number of authors, with a preface by Beresford. With stamps, shelfmarks and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC. £80.00

14560. Victor V. Branford, M.A. [University of Birmingham]: [Pamphlet.] University of Birmingham. Memorandum on the Organization of a Commercial Faculty by Victor V. Branford, M.A.

University of Birmingham. Undated [circa 1901]. 15pp., 12mo., with additional double-page 'Programme of Degree Curriculum'. Stapled. In grey printed wraps. With stamp, shelfmarks and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, with the central 'Programme' detached. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, on COPAC or WorldCat. £80.00

14334. W. Barefoot; C. H. Grinling [Woolwich Labour Party]: [Printed pamphlet.] Twenty-Five Years' History of the Woolwich Labour Party, 1903-1928. By W. Barefoot with a foreword by C. H. Grinling.

Published by the Woolwich Labour Party, 3, New Road, Woolwich. Woolwich: "Kentish Independent" Printing Works (T. U. Fed.) 16, Wellington Street. [Circa 1928.] 64pp., 8vo.

Stitched with red thread into cream wraps, with red printed label on front. With seventeen pages of illustrations and six appendices, including a '25 Year Diary'. In his 'Foreword' Grinling boasts that 'Woolwich has achieved a record in Labour Elections', and that 'it developed a constitution which the National Party took as the foundation for its own'. Scarce: no copy at the British Library, and the only copies on COPAC at the Bishopsgate Library and LSE. £65.00

14687. Wilfred M. Voynich, Polish-born London antiquarian bookseller: [Catalogue by London bookseller Wilfred M. Voynich.] No. 31. An Illustrated Catalogue of Remarkable Incunabula, many with Woodcuts, and a Specimen of an Unknown Xylographical Press, offered by Wilfred M. Voynich.

Wilfred M. Voynich. London: 68 & 70 Shaftesbury Avenue, W. [2] + 178 + [1]pp., 8vo, with 43 plates on art paper (some fold-out) at the end of the volume. In brown printed wraps. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. An impressive collection, very well catalogued. The final item, 166 (pp.172-174), is on a subject close to Voynich's heart: 'Xylographic Press in Poland'. Loosely inserted are an unused letterhead for Voynich's premises at 175 Piccadilly, and a business postcard from Myers & Co of 80 New Bond Street, carrying a manuscript note. Six copies of the catalogue on COPAC, but none listed at the British Library, and now scarce. £120.00

14561. William Slater, member of Shepley School Board [Yorkshire]: [Pamphlet.] Village Board Schools: A Defence and a Plea.

Reprinted from the "Huddersfield Examiner" of Saturday, May 27th, 1899. 8pp., 12mo. Stapled. In grey printed wraps. With stamps, shelfmarks and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged and worn paper. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, or on COPAC. £56.00