Fortnightly, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed on the front end paper by Irene Manning (dated 1949) & Robertson Hare, Jack Buchanan & three others. Gilt spine lettering: " PICTURE SHOW 1945". Fortnightly publication. Dispatched "Royal Mail Tracked 24" next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 134.3. PICTURE SHOW & FILM PICTORIAL 1945. December 30th, 1944 to December 15th 1945. Bound run of magazines with their front covers. Fortnightly publication *** Front end paper is signed by Irene Manning, Robertson Hare, Jack Buchanan. Signed by Irene Manning, Rober.

First edition. 8vo. ix, [3], 370 pp. Original red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, dust jacket (jacket rather edge worn, with loss to upper corners and foot of spine panel, withal a very good copy). Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author 'To Harold . (?) who understands about this sort of thing Edwin M. Everett' ink blue ink to the front pastedown, the inscription more or less obscured by the dust jacket turn-in.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The six items - written in the semi-retirement that followed Escott's breakdown in 1885 (Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Randolph Churchill took up a subscription for him) - are in good condition, on lightly aged paper. A total of 12pp, 12mo. Closely written in a well-nigh illegible hand. All six letters are addressed to 'My dear Sir' and signed 'T H S Escott'. Considering the execrable nature of the handwriting, it is ironic that the main topic would appear to be the supplying by Escott of autographs for the recipient's collection. Names that can be made out are: 'Miss Helen Henniker' ('a very active "Society organizer["] in London'), the 'vizier to Ismail' and 'Sir John Mowbray MP for Oxford (University)'. A letter of 8 July 1898 begins in unusually readable fashion: 'Perhaps the autograph of the present head of the Rothschilds may be of interest. It is a curiosity of caligraphy [sic] at least.' Another legible passage, on 12 July 1898: 'Lady Stanhope is the great Conservative hostess just now. I add her autograph. & also that of Frederic Harrison'. Also included is an envelope (presumably one of the autographs referred to above) with penny stamp and London postmark, addressed to 'T. H. Escott. Esq. / 33. Sackville Road. / Hove. / Brighton.' Also a cutting of a longish article on 'BYGONE BRIGHTON. / BY T. H. S. ESCOTT.'.