B.M. Croker, a rare family photograph of the Irish novelist B.M. Croker (1849-1920), taken in about 1895 by F.J. Garrison of Doncaster. It belonged to Croker herself. She is posed with her dog on her shoulder. Bithia Mary Croker was the author of numerous Ango Indian novels and many other works of fiction. Very good condition and a rare item.
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Samuel Carter Hall, a carte de visite of author and journalist Samuel Carter Hall (said to be the inspiration for Dickens's Pecksniff) by John and Charles Watkins. Good condition.
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Oxberry's Dramatic Mirror; Containing the Biography and An Excellent Likeness om Steel of the Following Eminent Performers (London: G. Virtue, 1827, printed by C. Baynes). Book of biographies and portrait steel engravings of the following actors and actresses:
Mrs. Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth, Mr. Ralph Sherwin as Giles, Mrs. Dorothy Jordan as Nell, Mr. John Pritt Harley as Caleb Quotem, Miss Francis Maria Kelly as Madge, Edmund Kean as Richard the Third, Miss Carew as Clarissa, John Philip Kemble as Rolla, Miss O'Neil as Belvidera, John Fawcett as Touchstone, Mrs. Bland as Sally Shamrock, Edward Knight as Jerry Blossom, Mrs. Mary Ann Orger as Audrey, Joseph Munden as Sir Francis Gripe, Miss Maria Foote as Maria Darlington, Mr. Liston as Tony Lumpkin, Miss Katherine Stephens as Rosetta, John Emery as Farmer Ashfield, Robert William Elliston as Colonel Feighnwell, Miss Mardyn as Miss Peggy, Junius Brutus Booth as Brutus, Mrs. W. West as Desdemona, Charles Kemble as Romeo and William Oxberry.
Bound in a later Victorian hardback cloth binding. A small newspaper clipping from 1961 pasted in by the entry for John Philip Kendle about the death of his descendant Violet Kemble Cooper. Splits to spine and covers marked, good condition. Click on image for more pictures of this title. Ref. no. 8

G. J. Whyte Melville, The Gladiators (London: Longmans, Green, & Co., circa 1870). First published in 1863. Yellowback edition with a very attractive cover design. Bookplate of collectors Anne Renier and F.G. Renier. Spine darkened, some rubbing, very good condition.
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Marie Bancroft & Squire Bancroft, The Bancrofts: Recollections of Sixty Years (London: John Murray, 1909). 2nd issue. Presentation copy, autographed and inscribed by both actors to actress and playwright Lena Ashwell. A large volume with numerous illustrations of the Bancrofts and also colleagues including John Hare, Henry Irving, T.W. Robertson, Pinero, J.L. Toole etc. Ex British Drama League Library with their ownership labels and stamps. Split to bottom edge of spine, good condion.
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Mrs. Henry Wood (Ellen Wood), The Channings (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1862). Two volume Tauchnitz edition in an unusual blue Tauchnitz binding, probably produced only for Mrs. Henry Wood's use by Baron Tauchnitz. A rare presentation copy by Mrs. Henry Wood to her son Arthur. Michael Sadleir had signed volumes inscribed to her sons in the same words in his collection.
Inscribed in Mrs. Henry Wood's handwriting in volume I:
'Arthur Edward Wood from Mamma'.
Volume one is inscribed twice, once on the front and once on the back free endpaper.
Also included is an odd volume, volume 2, of Roland Yorke in the same binding (sadly not signed as it was the first volume which would have been signed).
Some rubbing, good condition. A rare item.
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Elizabeth James and Helen R. Smith, Penny Dreadfuls and Boys' Adventures: The Barry Ono Collection of Victorian Popular Literature in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998). Hardback, illustrated. Very good condition.
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Television: The Official Organ of the Television Society, The World's First Television Journal
Edited by Alfred Dinsdale. Issue for August 1929 in the original wrappers, Vol. II, no.18.
With contributions from R.L. Smith-Rose, Cyril Sylvester, Professor Cheshire, Lieut. Col. Chetwode Crawley, H. Wolfson, W.F.F. Shearcroft, Norman J. Nicolson, William J. Richardson, Noel Swanne, J.H. Owen Harries, A.A. Waters, E. E. Fournier d'Albe. Front cover shows a picture of the north London laboratories of John Logie Baird.
1.5 inch edge tear throughout as the old paper the magazine was printed on is now fragile.
Scarce.
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Television: The Official Organ of the Television Society, The World's First Television Journal
Edited by Alfred Dinsdale. Issue for September 1929 in the original wrappers, Vol. II, no.19.
With contributions from Sir Ambrose Fleming, R.L. Smith-Rose, Lieut. Col. Chetwode Crawley, W.F.F. Shearcroft, A.A. Waters, Shaw Desmond, J.H. Owen Harries, W.C. Fox, H. Wolfson, J.H. Owen Harries, Professor Cheshire, Cyril Sylvester. Includes pieces on Baird television. Cover picture of John Logie Baird's Noctovisor.
Good condition.
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Fox Russell, Tricked: A Sporting and Military Novel (London: R.A. Everett & Co., circa 1890). Yelowback, with attractive cover design. Paper browned, loss to spine. Good condition.
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J. Keith Angus, A Scotch Playhouse; Being The Historical Records of the Old Theatre Royal, Marischal Street, Aberdeen (Edinburgh: D. Wyllie & Son, 1878). 2nd edition. Bookplate and signature of S.T. Whiteford (artist and collector Sidney Trefusis Whiteford), ex Kensington Public Libraries. Spine chipped and reglued. A couple of theatre newspaper clippings pasted to blank page. Good reading copy.
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Somerville and Ross - Edith Anna Œnone Somerville, a rare large autographed photograph of Irish novelist Edith Anna Œnone Somerville (1859-1949) in her robes after being awarded an honorary doctorate by Trinity College, Dublin in 1932. Taken by Guy & Co. Ltd of Cork. She is holding a copy of one of Somerville and Ross's books - An Incorruptible Irishman by E.Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross - and is also wearing an Irish Claddagh ring on her right hand. She has signed it in ink below the photograph ‘E.Œ. Somerville, Hon. Litt. D. Trin. Coll. Dublin, June 29 1932'. Somerville wrote a number of important works with her cousin Violet Ross including The Real Charlotte and The Experiences of an Irish R.M. Somerville was also a talented painted and a supporter of the suffragette movement. She lived in Castletownshend in Cork. Photo area 6 by 4¼ inches, mount area 11 by 8 inches. Good condition.
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Eliza Cook, Poems (London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1848). Volume I only (of three). Presentation copy from Eliza Cook to Charles Mackay (the father of Marie Corelli). Illustrated. A couple of chips to spine, otherwise very good condition.
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Eliza Cook, A rare carte de visite photograph of poet and magazine editor Eliza Cook. It was taken by the London Stereoscopic Company in about 1861. She is posed sitting on an armchair, with a pair of spectacles suspended on a chain. Faded (less faded than scan shows) with one corner slightly clipped.
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Sydney Fairbrother, Through an Old Stage Door (London: Frederick Muller, 1939). Memoirs of the popular actress, the granddaughter of music hall star Sam Cowell. Ex British Drama League Library. Illustrated. Good reading copy.
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Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler and Edith Henrietta Fowler, two rare carte de visites of the authors by the London Stereoscopic Company. The sisters are dressed for their presentation by their mother to Queen Victoria at court in 1885. Good condition.
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Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, eight carte de visite photographs of the novelist Ellen Thorneycroft (1860-1929) as a child and teenager. Rare group of family pictures of the writer (from a different source to previous item).
1. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler age 3 taken c.1863 by W.H. Dodds, Photographer, Wolverhampton. She is posed with a tiny white dog at her feet.
2. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler aged about 6, with her mother Ellen Fowler (nee Thorneycroft, later Viscountess Wolverhampton) and baby sister the novelist Edith Henrietta Fowler (1865-1944). Photograph by Mrs. Williams, 42 Darlington Street, Wolverhampton.
3. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler aged about 7 c.1867 by Mrs Williams, 42 Darlington Street, Wolverhampton.
4. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler age 10 taken in 1870 by Mrs. Williams, Talbot Place, Darlington Street, Wolverhampton.
5. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler age 12 taken in 1872 by Mrs. Williams, Talbot Place, Darlington Street, Wolverhampton.
6. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler age 15 with her sister Edith Henrietta Fowler and brother Henry Ernest Fowler (1870-1943; later 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton). Taken in 1875 by Sarony, Sarony Square, Scarborough.
7. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler taken in 1877 by Mrs. Williams, Talbot Place, Darlington Street, Wolverhampton.
8. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler dressed for her presentation at court in 1885 by the London Stereoscopic Company, 110 & 108 Regent Street & 54 Cheapside. Some aging and marks to some images; mostly good condition.
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Richard Henry Savage, A Modern Corsair: A Story of the Levant (London: Routledge, 1897). Yellowback. A little rubbing and fading, but very good condition for a yellowback.
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Archibald Clavering Gunter, Mr. Potter of Texas (London: George Routledge, 1888). Yellowback edition. Some rubbing & chipping, but very good condition for a yellowback.
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Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, circa 1935.) 2 volume paperback. First published by Tauchnitz in 1848. Contemporary ownership signature. Good condition.
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