Eton. A folio scrapbook, early 19th c and later, mostly town...

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£500 - £700

Eton. A folio scrapbook, early 19th c and later, mostly town and college, some Windsor and material from further afield than Berkshire, including an early provincial banknote, royal printed and manuscript ephemera, broadsides, correspondence, further manuscripts, and printed ephemera, comprising Ad Montem. May the 28th, 1844, 3pp letterpress of one of the school's last processions thus, listing the participating schoolboys and their roles, 4to; Eton Board of Health broadside to ratepayers of the parish, May 4th, 1850, Windsor: R. Oxley, Printer; uninscribed Eton Bridge-Trust, n.d. [c. 1780], 180 ticket, citing coals and bushels, printed by Pote and Williams; George III printed and inscribed receipt for a landlord's quarterly payment of land tax, dated Dec:r 23 1789; Norwich Union insurance premium printed and inscribed receipt, The Trustees of Baldwin's Pool Bridge, Eton, 25th March, 1811-1812, signed by D. Ludgale the agent; Royal Navy & the Caribbean, American War of Independence Era: Admiral Sir Benjamin Caldwell GCB (1739-1820), ALS to Admiral Molyneux Shuldham, 1st Baron Shuldham, Commander in Chief, Plymouth, addressed by the then Captain Caldwell from his ship, HMS Emerald, Plymouth, and dated 25th May 1779, citing his return from Jamaica, etc; Early Railway Broadside: Overseers of the Parish of Eton, calling a meeting of the inhabitant to consider the probably effects of the proposed railways from Windsor, October 2nd, 1846, G. Cartland, Printer; Church Rates broadside, a meeting of the parishioners to discuss Mrs. Jenks's Mortgage, Windsor, November, 6th, 1837, R. Oxley, Printer; Windsor Bank £5 note No. 1880, inscribed, worn, some losses; Fourteenth Anniversary Dinner to celebrate the Defeat of the Eton Inclosure (sic) Bill at the Crown and Cushion Inn, two printed cards; 1833 G.W. Railway Opposition, 1ff of MS; Eton Archivers letterpress circular and blue membership card, both 1856; Subscriptions for the Fourth of June, 1856. Montem Year, letterpress form; Eton Substitute Society broadside, A General Meeting of the Subscribers to the Fund for providing Substitutes for such as have been drawn for the Militia or Army of Reserve [...], Eton, August 21, 1804, printed by Pote & Williams; card for the Eton Library and Reading Room Pleasure Trip to Cliefden, August 6, 1856; the next leaf with a corresponding broadside advertising the jaunt, T. Ingalton, Printer, Eton; Ad Montem, 1844, a broadside Order of the Day, plus an earlier yellow pass allowing the bearer into the Square formed near the Chapel, and the Inclosure (sic) for the Royal Party, an 1823 and an 1835 Mos Pro Lege ticket; Broadside Ballad: A New Song, Called The Warwickshire Hog, Elected Alderman of Windsor, s.l., s.n., n.d. [?Windsor, c. 1780], composed of seven stanzas; mid-19th c provincial sermon, Hertford: Simson and Groombridge, 1859, 4pp; Chromolithographed Invitation Card: Reception by The Corporation of The City of London of [...] The Shah of Persia [...], at the Guildhall, on Friday, the 20th June, 1873, Designed & Printed by Blades, East & Blades, London, printed with Islamic calligraphy and architecture, 25 x 35.9cm; 1863 poster, Bucks County Election: Vote for the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli and Sir R.B. Harvey, Bart. The Conservative Candidates; Eton Cannel Gas Light Company; 1856 rate-payer's meeting broadside; Theatre Broadside: By Desire of Mrs. Payne [...] Theatres Royal. At Weybridge Theatre, On Tuesday Evening June 20th, Will be performed A Concert of Music [...], A Comedy call'd The Beaux Stratagem [...] added a dramatick (sic) satire, call'd Lethe, or Æsop in the Shades, Chertsey: Printed by J. Benham, n.d. [c. 1785]; Royal Entertainment. By Command. Her Majesty's Servants Will Perform, At Windsor Castle, 17th January, 1856, The Jealous Wife, mixed font printing, the cast of servants and their roles in bold, the sheet blind-embossed with the Royal Arms, the whole within an ornate scrolling 'lace' frame, 4to, and a invitation from Queen Victoria, via The Lord Chamberlain, to The Earl & Countess of Shaftesbury and their daughter to a ball at Buckingham Palace, mounted on the same leaf; mounted and loosely-inserted letter fronts; The Royal Dinner, Tuesday, 21st March, 1871, printed menu; a MS letter in the third person from Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Stable Yard, 2nd April 1810; ditto, Duke of Marlborough Sion Hill, June 30, 1799; Windsor Castle, The Household Dinner, Sunday, 5th July, 1891, chromolithographed menu; another menu, The Royal Luncheon, 13th May, 1874; 1780 view of Windsor pre-dating Wyatt; Eton College: List of Boats, Easter, 1857; 1841 Ad Montem Order of the Day; another three Royal Entertainments at Windsor Castle, Legend of Florence, 1852, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, 1859, and The House or the Home, and One Touch of Nature, 1860; three watercolours of Europeans in their traditional native costumes and dress; Horse Racing Broadside: South Down Races, Eton, Bucks. Wednesday-Thursday, August 16-17, 1820, S. Burgess, Printer, Westminster, loosely-inserted; Flying Man: Extraordinary Feat. Mr. G.H. Courtney, will On Monday, July 23, 1827, Take A Grand and Terrific Flight [...], Scarborough, C. Todd, Printer, &c., Newbrough; 1809 notice Eton parish meeting to discuss celebrations for George III's 50th year of his reign, printed by Pote and Williams; 1810 Eton Brocas Festival Day broadside, same printers as the latter; mourning broadside for Prince Albert, the sheet including a named-view of Windsor Castle, C. Provest, Printer, 1861, an embossed mourning card, by J.T. Wood of the Strand; Windsor Castle admittance ticket to the precents for Queen Victoria's internment procession, February 4th, 1901; further Eton Library and Eton Board of Health notices and printed ephemera, 19th c; charitable relief on the occasion of The Princess Royal's marriage, 1858; some named-view prints, some photographic prints; etc., 19th c calf over marbled boards, the latter detached and splitting, rubbed and worn losses, folio (41.5 x 27cm)