£60 - £80
An Edwardian memorial album, compiled by Lilian A. Bridges, in memoriam of Thomas Bridges, dated July 1905, only [14]ff of contents, being a commonplace-scrap book, inscribed and illustrated with manuscript, autograph letters, ephemera and scraps from TB's life and times, including an ALS of 2pp from Henry Peter Hansell (1863-1935), tutor to the three eldest sons of George V, two of whom would be kings themselves, on York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk writing paper, dated November 20th, 1905, and thanking TB for sending copy of his Punctuation Simplified for the education of his royal charges, accompanied by two b/w postcards of royal residences, another ALS of thanks for the pamphlet, from Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933), the playwright and novelist, etc., 5 loosely-inserted b/w albumen prints of British India, another of Scottish Freemasons, contemporary mottled calf gilt, the detached upper-cover monogrammed: E.C.B., all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, oblong 4to; and an unassociated collection of early 19th c and later newspaper and periodical clippings, of both antiquarian and general interest, the contemporary folder black roan over blue papered boards, ties en suite, folio, (2)
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