Sales catalogue 554: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/102
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 554: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    344 WYATT (JAMES, 1740-1813). Famous Architect. Built Fonthill Abbey for Beckford. | | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO OZIAS HUMPHREY. I page, 8vo.. 12th April, 1790. £1 5s ‘“ As T conceive the honour intended me by Sir Lionel Darrell is out of the common mode of proceeding I should wish for the best continuance upon such an oceasion, & therefore I would much rather defer the matter to some future day. when I may receive in the fullest manner the honour intended me by him.”’ 345 YATES (FREDERICK H., 1797-1842). Actor. Excelled in Shake- spearian Characters. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MR. KENNETH. I page, 4to. Theatre. Royal, Cheltenham, 2nd September, 1825. 12s 6d On theatrical matters. 346 YEATS (WILLIAM B., born 1865). Irish Poet and Playwright. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO W. E. HENLEY, AUTHOR, FRIEND OF R. L. STEVENSON. 3 pp., 8vo. Dublin, 4th September (139!). £5 5s b] A fine literary letter, mentioning his ‘“‘ John Sherman,’’ and on his own and Henley’s literary work. ce AP: Unwin will send you in a day or two a story of mine called * John Sherman.’ There is a little thing bound up with it called ‘ Dhoya’ that may please you. .. . ‘“T send you by the same post with this an article on a curious Dublin visionary, and, a little poem. My visionary by the way showed me your ‘ God in the Garden’ poem & called it one of your best things. He is a reader of your verse and in all ways one of the few true students of poetry I know.” Ete. 347 ZUIGHEM VAN AYTTA (VIGLIUS, 1507-1577). Learned Lawyer. Famous Statesman during the troubles in the Netherlands under Philippe II. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (IN LATIN) TO HIS NEPHEW, BUCHO DE MONTEZUMA, CANON AT LOUVAIN. 11 pp., folio. Brussels, 19th October, 1561. £6 6s Concerning a University education in Louvain and Paris of a young man called Tolcardus Gerbrandi; and referring to a vacancy for a Canon at Deventer.
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