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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. UNIQUE PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL OF THE POET'S LANCASTRIAN ANCESTRY. An unusual hybrid of printed manuscript, line illustrations, additional manuscript annotations, and pasted-in passages and photographs, interleaved with loose material including a scrap from an ancient ledger showing house expenses, an original one penny post envelope addressed to Lune Bank in Lancaster (the home of Robert Housman, the poet's eighteenth century ancestor), and a lock of horsehair. The line illustrations are by Agnes Valentine (nee Housman). William Bradshaw Housman was a cousin of A.E. Housman whose image, cut from a newspaper, appears on an early page. It seems likely that the author produced this family history for his own interest as there is no record of it in the British Library Catalogue. With bookplate of J. Lawson Whalley mounted to front free endpaper (probably Captain Julian Lawson Whalley of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment who was killed in the Great War). Octavo. Original red cloth boards lettered in gilt to front cover. Approx 60 pages unpaginated. Tissue guards throughout. Slight bubbling to cloth, minor spotting and offsetting to endpapers, a little sunning along spine and top edge of lower board. No other copies found on WorldCat etc, seemingly a one-off. Very good indeed. Agnes Valentine (nee Housman) (illustratore).…