Autograph letters and documents signed (8) : [London] etc., to Charles Fairfax Murray, 1896 Dec. 16-1915 Oct. 1.

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Autograph letters and documents signed (8) : [London] etc., to Charles Fairfax Murray, 1896 Dec. 16-1915 Oct. 1.

Concerning the proposed purchase of books and manuscripts from the library of William Morris, bibliographical matters, and Henry Yates Thompson.

8 items (12 p.) ; (12mo)

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Morris, William, 1834-1896

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Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919

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Charles Fairfax Murray, English artist and art connoisseur. From the guide to the Charles Fairfax Murray manuscript material : 1 item, 1879, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), was born in London but lived a significant portion of his adult life in Italy. He was an artist who did work for John Ruskin, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. Murray is sometimes iden...

Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928

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Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), book-collector, was born at Dingle Cottage, near Liverpool, on 15 December 1838. He attended Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1862), and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1867. He was private secretary to the viceroy of Ireland, the 5th Earl Spencer, between 1868 and 1873, and travelled widely from 1862 to 1875. Thompson was the Sandars reader in bibliography at Cambridge University in 1901 and 1904. He formed a large collection of illuminate...

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962

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English museum director, art historian and collector. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge to Hugh W. Davies, 1911 Jan. 05. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899880 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hammersmith, to Mackenzie Bell, 1896 Nov. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899382 From the description of Autograph letter signed (retained copy) : Cambridge, to Lord Henry Bentinck, 1909 Feb. 17. (Unknown). ...