[BRITISH AUTHORS]. GRAY, THOMAS. Autograph manuscript notes, a list of contributors, etc., to an English church dating from the 13th Century on, n.p., n.d., 2 pages, 4to, both sides of a sheet, one side paginated "7", browned, a small hole in center affecting a word, a margin closely cropped on verso with loss of a number of first letters of names--CHARLES LAMB. Autograph manuscript of the verses "Clever Tom Clinch going to be hanged. 1727," n.p., n.d., 1 page, 12mo, 24 lines, browned, on thin paper, tear at right edge affecting a word, on verso is an autograph manuscript by Lamb of six lines of verse entitled "The Power of Time," left edge chipped with partial loss of six words, and below this an autograph manuscript by him of an untitled quatrain; with an autograph note by the collector Robert Balmanno (b. 1780), 1 p., 8vo, that this "Genuine Autograph of Charles Lamb [was] Taken from his copy of Shakespeare's Poems in my Library...," and with an autograph manuscript list by Balmanno of "Lamb's Books" (sold at an auction with prices and buyers), 1 page, 8vo--ROBERT SOUTHEY. Autograph manuscript signed ("R. Southey") of the verse "Lines composed for Lady Eleanor Lowther's (?) Album," n.p., n.d., 1 page, 8vo, 11 lines, fold tears--WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH. Autograph manuscript signed, a 23-line quotation from his story "The Lancashire Witches," n.p., 18 April 1881, 1 page, 8vo, titled at top and signed at bottom by Ainsworth, with a brief ANS presenting this manuscript to a Fred Steele of Chicago; together 7 items. (7)