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Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. St Nicholas Vol. 43 October 1916. Various (illustratore).

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. pp.vi, 117p, paperback, a generally very good ex-library copy.

Limited editions of 100 copies (parts 2-9) and 200 copies (part 1). Half-leather and boards, original printed wrappers bound in at end, folio, 45 cm, each part comprising 1 or more facsimile plates and accompanying commentary. Very Scarce. We have found only two auction records for full sets, from 1981 and 2013. A bound volume containing the complete set of 9 parts published in this series, namely : Part I: The Autograph of Charlotte Bronte by Thomas J. Wise; , Part II: The Autograph of Robert Burns by W. Craibe Angus and H.D. Colvill-Scott, Part III: The Autograph of Charles Dickens, by Thomas J. Wise; Part IV: John Keats, by H. Buxton Forman, Part V: Alexander Pope,by H. Saxe Wyndham; Part VI Matthew Prior by George A. Aitken, Part VII: George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron, by John Murray, Part VIII; Ludwig van Beethoven by J.S. Shedlock with Notes by Norman P. Cummings; and Part IX: Queen Victoria, by H. Saxe Wyndham. The Society of Archivists and Autograph Collectors was founded in 1893 but petered out for lack of support in 1900. As Munby noted in "The Cult of the Autograph Letter in England", Thomas James Wise was an active member of the Committee "which also included Walter B. Slater and Otto P. Rubeck, names familiar to students of the Wise saga." Bookplate of Thomas Parkin (1845-1932,of Fairseat, High Wickham, Hastings, Sussex) on front pastedown endpaper, leather worn and scraped, covers soiled and marked with faint circular blindstamp on front board, name and address of Parkin and small library stamp on verso of front free endpaper, fore-edges duststained and chipping to a blank prelim, contents otherwise Good.…