Name: Auction: Theatre Interest: photograph album, c.1880s 150 mainly Woodburytype photographs of actors and actresses, late 1800s
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 504 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Head of Sale, Cathy Tait, is delighted to present our first Books &amp; Manuscripts auction of 2025, which took place on Wednesday 05 February in our historic saleroom in Edinburgh and online.Manuscript and archive material lead the way in the sale, with a signed letter by Mary I of England (Mary Tudor), a fascinating English Civil War medical text and an account of a voyage undertaken by the East India Company ship the “Swift”, a journey instrumental in the treatment and prevention of scurvy.Further highlights of the sale include an intriguing collection of detective and adventure novels from the golden age of mystery fiction, a near-complete collection of the output of the T.N. Foulis Press and an extremely rare 1915 copy of the Persian Gulf Pilot.Buyer's Guide:&nbsp;

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Mostly annotated, many in an early hand, including Miss Ellen Terry (twice), Miss Lily Langtry, Miss Amy Roselle, Mdlle. Camille Dubois, Madame Adelina Patti, Mrs Bancroft, Miss Kate Bishop, Miss Kate Stanley, Miss Fanny Josephs and others, alongside Captain Webb (the first person to swim the Channel), &nbsp;mostly 11.5 x 8.5cm and 9 x 5.5cm, with a quantity of newspaper clippings and other photographs, all laid into a red half morocco album

Theatre Interest: photograph album, c.1880s

150 mainly Woodburytype photographs of actors and actresses, late 1800s

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