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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 92pp, 10pp ads. Grey printed wraps, color folding map bound in, illustrated. Very mild wear to cover, contents very clean, including map. A comprehensive guide to travel in Europe for the year 1889. Suggested routes, itineraries and hotels are featured.

Condizione: Good. 18mo. Oblong, [20 pp.] String-Bound Wraps. Good with minor loss at head of spine, marginal tear, creasing, minor stain to cover. Illustrations, some color; maps. Text in French.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1/4 leather over decorative paper. Gilt lettering on spine. Rubbing to spine edges with cracking along bottom half of front spine edge, rubbing/wear to spine ends. Light rubbing to other edges.Interior clean, pages lightly toned, binding tight. Many artworks represented.

Folio, [i] + 49 pp. Text clear and complete. A mimeographed typescript, with text and manuscript annotations. Clear and complete, on aged and creased paper. Typed in bottom right-hand corner of covering title: 'Director of Public Prosecutions.' Anwarudding was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1913, and between that year and 1918 his marital difficulties caused him to appear before thirteen different High Court Judges in eight different courts. The various legal actions in which he was involved (the subject of eight reports in The Times) are of great importance in the history of the relations between western and islamic law, as set out in Gail Savage's 'More than One Mrs. Mir Anwaruddin: Islamic Divorce and Christian Marriage in Early Twentieth-Century London' (Journal of British Studies, Vol.47, No.2, 2 April 2008). Although Savage does refer to this case (for which see The Times, 3 July 1918; with Anwaruddin's unsuccessful appeal against his conviction reported on 27 July 1918), her article does not make use of the present item, which contains depositions from nineteen individuals. The present action, in which Anwaruddin was accused of perjury, arose out of his testimony in an unsuccessful libel action by him against Bottomley, John Bull and Odhams Press. The deposing parties in the present document include members of Anwaruddin's wife's family the Hudd's; the woman he attempted to make his second wife, Violet Louisa Ling; police officers, two shorthand reporters and a handwriting expert. The document ends with the 'Prisoner's Statement': 'I plead an emphatic "Not Guilty".' It is annotated throughout in two hands, possibly those of the lawyers representing him in his appeal against conviction, 'Mr. Abinger and Mr. Abdul Majid' (Times, 27 July 1918).

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient Philip Dosse (Summerson spells it 'Dossé') was proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of a stable of seven arts magazines including Books and Bookmen and Plays and Players. The five items are in good condition, lightly aged. The three letters signed 'John Summerson'. ONE: ALS, 3 October 1973. 1p, 12mo. Two previous letters from Dosse were sent while Summerson was in Canada. 'The book on Fischer von Erlach I will review with pleasure. I'm not sure that I want to do the Raj book as well anyway, not in the same review. I will either do a short review or let you have it back, whichever you say.' TWO: ALS, 22 October 1973. 1p, 12mo. 'It is really most kind of you to arrange for me to have the Inigo Jones book which I shall be delighted to review and possess.' He has just dispatched a joint review to 'my typing lady who lives in the country and is slow'. THREE: ALS, 26 October 1973. ANS, 26 October 1973. Regarding the joint review he writes: 'The typescript of the King's Architecture / Fischer v. Erlach review has just come to hand so here it is'. FOUR: Autograph Manuscript of review of J. C. Connant, 'Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture' (1974). 2pp, foolscap 8vo. Single-spaced, on ruled paper. With a few emendations. FIVE: Autograph Manuscript of review of Puppi, 'Andrea Palladio' (1975) and D. Guinness and J. T. Sadler, 'The Palladian Style in England, Ireland and America' (1976). As Item Four, single-spaced and on ruled paper. With the last two pages carrying pasted-in sections, and a few emendations elsewhere.

For more information on writer (one of West End theatre's 'most dominant and successful landlords') and recipient (the foremost British theatre historian of the twentieth century), see their entries in the Oxford DNB. The five items (the TNS is Item Three, the others are ALsS) are in good condition, lightly aged; Item Five with slight paperclip damage to a margin. Each folded once. All five signed 'Prince Littler' and addressed to 'Popie', two at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, one at 9 Oakdale, London N14, and one at Coventry House, Coventry St, W1. Items One and Three on Stoll Theatres Corporation letterheads, the other three items on Cranbourn Mansions letterheads. ONE: 2 May 1950. 1p, 8vo. Asking MP to co-operate with his 'Press Representatives' Grattan & Douglas, with regard to the run of 'Oklahoma'. TWO: 30 June 1950. 1p, landscape 8vo. Enclosing a letter (not present) 'written to Sir Brian Mountain, Bt. as [.] thanks for the souvenir records of the visit of the late German Emperor to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, which I shall be glad if you will add to the Library of the Theatre'. THREE: TNS. 9 October 1953. 1p, landscape 8vo. Thanking him for his 'telegram of good wishes for the opening of "THE KING AND I" at Drury Lane'. Littler was delighted with the way the Show went'. FOUR: 9 October 1953. 1p, 8vo. Thanking MP for his 'efforts towards making the Preview of "THE KING & I" the undoubted success it was'. He is sure MP will be pleased to know that 'a satisfactory sum will be distributed to the Charities chosen'. FIVE: 27 January 1956. 1p, landscape 8vo. Thanking him for his 'telegram of good wishes for the opening of "PLAIN AND FANCY".' As MP will be aware, 'the Show had a wonderful reception and the advance booking today has been phenomenal and the Libraries have done a substantial Deal'.