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[CHURCHILL]--AUTOGRAPH ALBUM | Containing c.275 items including a letter by Churchill

Lot Closed

August 4, 02:13 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

[CHURCHILL]--AUTOGRAPH ALBUM


CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 275 ITEMS


including letters by:

Royals: George IV (2 letters, as Prince of Wales), Prince Albert, and others

Artists: J.A. Gresse, G.F. Watts, Val Princep, and Edwin Landseer

Politicians: WINSTON CHURCHILL (to an editor, asking him not to publish the letter sent by Churchill the previous night, 1 page, 8vo, Carlton Club headed stationery, 18 July 1903), George Wilbraham (speech in the House of Commons, c.1820s, 18 pages)

Writers and Composers: John Ruskin (two signed prints), Benjamin Britten (signed programme)

Ernest Shackleton, signed photograph (“yours truly E.H. Shackleton”)

Also containing many early 20th century signatures on card, by performers, writers, and others

The collection housed in an album, 112 pages, plus blanks, folio, black cloth; crude repairs to spine, some items loose


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The cataloguing of this lot was amended on 3 August 2020 to note the presence of a signed photograph by Ernest Shackleton in the album.