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Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 3 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: A4 Size. Category: BBC History Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

2pp., 12mo. On the first leaf of a bifolium. In fair condition, aged, and with traces of mount adhering to the blank second leaf. He writes that Gladstone has asked him to thank her for sending 'the illustrated cards' issued by the Association, 'and to say that they appear to him to be suitable for the very good purpose you have in view'.

Stipple engraving, from Jerdan's "National Portrait Gallery", 1830,

Half-Leather. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Spines faded, corners rubbed with minimal loss, front joint of fourth volume beginning to split. Bindings tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1911 Half-Leather. Complete in four volumes. Leather spine and corners, gilt titles, marbled boards and endpapers, photographic and engraved frontispieces and plates. A detailed account of the history of New York State covering the governorships of Grover Cleveland through Charles E. Hughes (1882-1910), with profiles of each administration, accounts of the various officers, government departments, and commissions, and chapters on each county. Includes chapters on Theodore Roosevelt's administration, and on the origin and construction of the barge canals. Lists of New York State Assembly members and state senators from 1883 to 1911 follows text.

Pamphlet. Condizione: Very Good. 10 pages, folio. A complete original printed act, from the annual volume for the year. Size: 18.5 x 28.5 cms. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Parliamentary Acts::Georgian. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Lyttelton was Gladstone's private secretary during three of his terms as prime minister. The recipient Arthur George Liddon Rogers (1864-1944, son of the editor of the economist Thorold Rogers) is not named, but the item is from his papers, and was written while he was Secretary of the Liberal Publication Department, a position to which he was appointed in November 1891. 2pp, 12mo. Signed 'Spencer Lyttleton.' In good condition, lightly aged and folded for postage. Begins: 'Dear Sir / I am afraid I cannot ask Mr Gladstone again to sit for his photograph according to your suggestion in the letter to Mr H. Gladstone [the prime minister's son Herbert]. It is a process he particularly dislikes, & the moment is specially unfavourable as it was only yesterday that he was taken by Messrs. Valentine.' As 'most admirable portaits' of Gladstone 'exist & can very easily be procured', Lyttelton does not see the necessity of another. He concludes: 'Your photographer is quite at liberty to take what views he wishes of the Castle & grounds.'.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt and red back and front. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains (vi), 320 pp. Slight tanning to the text block edges, else in superb Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. TRUE CRIME.

On both sides of a 37 x 24 cm piece of paper (i.e. half a 'pinched post' folio leaf), with 1806 fleur-de-lys watermark. Folded twice, to make eight 24 x 9 cm panels (four on each side), in seven of which Perceval has written his notes in a close and neat hand. The eighth panel forms the outside of the folded paper, and on this Perceval has written 'Parliamentary | Miscellaneous'. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Dennis Gray, in his biography of Perceval, states that he 'took particular interest in the customs and excise where "not the smallest part of the public money could be expended in extraordinaries, without its being submitted to his consideration"'. The document, which is not signed, consists of Perceval's rough notes for a parliamentary debate (there are references to 'Ld. Folkstone [sic]' and the Committee of Ways and Means), and can be dated to 1808, as at one point in it Perceval writes: 'Instance in Brandy act of last year See Back', this being a reference is to a panel headed '47. G. 3. C. 27 passed 17. M. 1807 | = | take place on all foreign Spirits on wh. the whole of the Duties shall not have been paid before the 19: Feb. or which shall on or after the 19. Feb. be in any warehouse under lock of Officers of Customs or Excise'. The act referred to here is 47 Geo. III. c. 27, 'For granting to His Majesty, until twelve months after the Ratification of a Definitive Treaty of Peace, certain additional Duties of Excise on Brandy in Great Britain', passed 17 May 1807. At one point Perceval includes the heading: 'The Expost [sic] Facto Law', following this with a panel headed: 'Retrospect - | This an objection, not founded on any [virtue?] in the word expostfacto | - But founded on an important principle of fundamental justice in Legislation | - which applies differently as to the subject matter - | if penal Law - | heighth of injustice, to impose punishment by retrospect on an act innocent at time; | as to financial Law | Injustice must consist either in this that by imposing a duty on article after I have speculated in it, - It may be that you may disapprove at my speculation, & that I would not have, manufactured, produced, or imported it, but in the hope of being able to sell it without the [burthen?] of duty. | This objection not only apply to expostfacto, but to contemporaneous that is to every duty which can be imposed either of Customs, or Excise | - and should require that you should give [?] opportunity of getting rid of all his stock before the duty should attach - | does not apply to this more than to any other duty.' Further on he writes: 'Let me ask whether the same would not exist in this - | Suppose importation of Articles on Monday & Tuesday next & Act to pass on Wednesday with no retrospect, | Would not importer of those articles charge the tax on his Sale, just as much in the instance of its being a Custom Ho duty, as an excise one -'. And elsewhere: 'This gives up the whole argu[men]t on the Excise -', and '- all these objections applying Equally to Excise, as to Customs, wish to know what remains of difference but the name? | Hon Aldn. [?] left unexplained. | May be said in objection to Minister that Foreign Merchant defrauded in expectation of finding Market unchanged -'.