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8vo, 75pp. Colour illustrations. A good, lightly foxed hardback copy in like dust jacket. Previous owner's signature.

(Christchurch) 1947. 8vo. Or.limp boards with printed title-label on front cover. (12pp.). Uncut. Limited edition of 200 copies.

Condizione: Near Fine. Original stapled white paper covers with William Caxton printer's device to the front cover. 8vo. 9½'' x 6''. Contains 8 pages of text (including the covers). Kraus formed a business that reprinted scientific and scholarly journals and reference books. SIGNED 'P. Kraus 3. iii. 77' inside the front cover and in near Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. BOOKS (Binding, Collecting, Printing, Paper).

Lewis's entry in the Oxford DNB describes how, as Minister of War in 1861, successfully led the British cabinet to reject Lord John Russell and Gladstone's calls for Britain to intervene on behalf of the Confederacy in the American Civil War. 1p, foolscap 8vo. Folded twice. In fair condition, on lightly aged laid paper, with slight chipping at the head. With J. Green & Son 1848 Britannica watermark. Signed 'G. Cornewall Lewis', and addressed to 'Mr. Peter Jackson / The Caxton Press / Angel Street / St. Martin's-le-Grand'. Begins: 'Sir, / I am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to acknowledge the weight of your Letter of the 9th instant, and to inform you that he has not failed to lay before The Queen the Petition of the Members of the Congregation assembling the Divine Worship in Barbican Chapel in the City of London'. The petition opposes 'the opening of the General Post Office on the Lord's Day'.