Rare 1899 Notes & Queries Fynmore Archive Kipling Thackeray Leather Bound

Condition: Very Good condition overall- Please read description below for details and look carefully at the photographs. Questions welcome. | From the private archive of R. J. Fynmore (1840?1920), antiquary of Sandgate, Kent The Fynmore Archives ? Ninth Series, Volume III (January?June 1899) | Notes and Queries, R. J. Fynmore Compilation Description: Rare three-quarter leather-bound archival volume from the personal collection of R. J. Fynmore of Sandgate, Kent, noted antiquarian and contributor to Notes and Queries . This is Ninth Series, Volume III (January?June 1899), published by John C. Francis, London, and later expanded with clippings, letters, and engravings dating through the 1930s?1940s. The volume contains a wealth of original Victorian and Edwardian newspaper extracts, handwritten annotations, and cross-references relating to English literature, architecture, and public life. Notable inclusions: Rudyard Kipling's "Recessional" with first-hand accounts of its composition and submission to The Times Puritans and Music correspondence with Percy A. Scholes Death Mask of the Duke of Wellington , with early photographs Architectural preservation of Crosby Hall with 1907 Daily Graphic illustrations Thackeray's House correspondence and preservation debate Liddell and Scott lexicon epigrams and Oxford anecdotes Civil List Pensions (1940?1942) documenting British authors, artists, and musicians A unique window into the literary and cultural conversations of late Victorian Britain, curated by one of the era's most meticulous private researchers. Condition Three-quarter leather with marbled boards and gilt-titled? | Offered by Booking33 ? rare, antiquarian & collectible books. Carefully packed; insured shipping available.…