Beschreibung:

Autograph album with letters, clipped signature and envelope panels by politicians, aristocrats, artists and authors, mostly addressed to Richard James Spiers mayor of Oxford. Includes: W.E. Gladstone, Lord Russell, Frederick Leighton, Laurence Alma Tadema, Edward J. Poynter, Charles Lock Eastlake, Edwin Landseer Lord Palmerston, Sir Robert Peel (letter signed), Adolphus Duke of Cambridge, Frederick Duke of York, Douglas Jerrold (autograph letter signed to Richard Spiers accepting an invitation to Oxford, one page, 8vo, 26 Circus Row, 2 November 1854), Owen Jones Henry Cole (letter signed to Richard Spiers, informing the recipient that "I have received your letter authorizing your name to be put down to the Soulages Guarantee Fund for £100", one page, 8vo, Department of Science and Arts, Marlborough House, 22 July 1856), Martin Tupper, W.C. Macready, George Gilbert Scott George Edmund Street Francis Buckland (autograph letter signed, sending a "copy of my little book on Natural History, as a small return for your liberal hospitality and great kindness to myself and Mr Adama during our late visit to Oxford", three pages, 8vo, Knightsbridge, 15 February 1861), Edward Bradley George Canning (autograph letter signed, thanking Colonel Gordon "for your prompt attention to my letters", one page, 4to, 12 November 1811), Sir Henry Irving, miscellaneous collection also comprising albumen carte de visit and engraved portraits of prominent figures, brown cloth, wear to margins and spine extremities, a few loose autographs, tall 4to, nineteenth century.