Sales catalogue 641: Maggs Bros

Date:
1937
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/171
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 641: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    241 WALLACE (ALFRED RUSSEL, 1823-1913). Famous Naturalist. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO W. J. FARMER. 4 pp., 8vo. Broadstone, 3rd December (1908). &1 15s A very interesting letter discussing heredity and natural selection, referring to Darwin’s theories and Butler’s ‘‘ Life and Habit.” 242 WALLACE (ALFRED RUSSEL). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO W. J. FARMER. 4 pp., 8vo. Broadstone, 17th February, 1910. &1 5s Giving advice as to living in the tropics; recommending Jamaica and British Guiana. 243 WALSINGHAM (SIR FRANCIS, 1530-1590). Famous Elizabethan Statesman. Secretary of State. Responsible for the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. LETTER SIGNED TO SIR NICHOLAS BACON AND NATHANIEL BACON. + page, rolio. . March, To7s. £15 15s Ordering Nathaniel and Sir Nicholas Bacon to carry out a promise made by their deceased father to Christopher Barker, the famous Royal Printer, in respect of a house in London called Bacon House. ‘“ 6,.~)6.)«6©6WWhhereas my L. yor late father did . .... not long before his disease let to . . . this bearer Christopher Barker, some tyme my svant, and now herwth printer, a house of his in London cauld Bacon house and . . . gave his worde and promise for the finishing up of the said house and furnishing the same with dores, glasings, bordinge of flowers and other like necessaries thereunto apetyning, web notwithstanding, 1s not yet, as I heare, performed, nor taken in hand.’’ Kite. Christopher Barker (1529-1599), to whom this letter refers, was Queen’s printer; originally member of Drapers’ Company; Genevan Bible first printed in England by him, 1575; printed two different versions of the Bible, 1576; purchased patent including right to print Old and New Testament in English, thereby becoming Queen’s printer, 1577; Warden of Stationers Company, 1582; obtained exclusive patent for all State printing and for religious books, 1589. Produced thirty-eight editions of the Bible or parts thereof between 1575 and 1588, and his deputies produced thirty-four between 1588 and 1599. 244 WATTS (ALARIC A., 1797-1864). Poet and Journalist. Brought out first issue of “Men of the Time.” FIFTEEN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED TO CHARLES OLLIER, MISS CAROLINE BOWLES (WHO BECAME THE SECOND WIFE OF ROBERT SOUTHEY), MR. WOOD, PETER NORTON, J. B. NICHOLLS, DR. RAFFLES. ETC. 50 pp., 8vo and 4to. Dated from London hetween 1822 and c. 1860. £10 10s An extremely interesting collection of letters chiefly on literary matters. He sends one of his correspondents ‘‘a volume of verse,’’ probably his ‘* Poetical Sketches,’’ privately printed in 1822; also refers to the Literary Souvenir of which Watts became editor in 1824, and the Standard newspaper which he took part in establishing in 1827. Watts requests Dr. Raffles for some particulars of his career, which were to be included in ‘‘ Men of the Time,’ mentions Robert Southey and his ‘ Life of William Cowper,” deals with some of his (Watts’) pictures which were being exhibited in the Provinces, and also refers to his forthcoming volume, probably his ‘* Poetical Album.”’
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