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AUTOGRAPH ALBUM - EARLY 19TH CENTURY:

Currency:GBP Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:400.00 - 500.00 GBP
AUTOGRAPH ALBUM - EARLY 19TH CENTURY:
AUTOGRAPH ALBUM - EARLY 19TH CENTURY: ROYALTY, ARISTOCRACY, NOBILITY, CLERGY etc. Over 300 signatures, some letters, many stamped and franked envelopes. Organised and captioned according to the Order of Precedence, the album reads like a roll-roll of the most powerful figures of the day : politicians, landowners, soldiers, reformers, and many whose names are known to us by the names of streets, houses, squares and horse-races. Including: George III, Duke of Clarence, the King of Siam, George Spencer Churchill (Duke of Marlborough), Arthur Wellesley (1st Duke of Wellington - a letter); Edmund Boyle (Earl of Cork and Ornery - a letter); the Earl of Shaftesbury, several Earls Spencer, Charles Canning, George Gordon (Lord Byron), Henry Brougham, the 1st Baron Raglan, Lord Melbourne, George Byng (Lord Carrington), the first Baron Portman; George Pitt-Rivers (Baron Rivers), the Archbishops of Canterbury & York, together with many Bishops. Theres is a section at the end headed: "Ladies of Title". Oblong folio. Orig. half morocco gt. £400-500
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