$793
By Henry J. Jennings. Birmingham; London: Houghton; Simpkin, 1882. 8vo, custom morocco slipcase, gilt embossed red leather boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with fleur-de-lis-tipped raised bands, a.e.g. First edition. With three tipped-in autographed letters signed. One bound in after title page signed by Newman, dated "The Oratory Jan. 25, 1875," with H. J. Jennings Esq. beneath his signature. A second letter is bound in, unsigned, in a different hand, also dated "Oratory, Oct 8, 1881". A third letter, 4 pp., on the stationary of Hawarden Castle, Chester, dated December 8, 1881, in a third hand signed by M. Gladstone, to J. Jennings, Esq., Handsworth Wood, Birmingham. Tipped-in frontispiece photograph of a seated Cardinal Newman. Minor worming to the bottom of the slipcase; otherwise very fine.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2009-07-28
