VARIOUS CELEBRITIES, 1900's to 1920's.

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VARIOUS CELEBRITIES, 1900's to 1920's.
An album, 4°, including autograph letters by G. K. Chesterton , Edward Elgar, Lloyd George, Rider Haggard, Hall Caine, Anthony Hawkins, Gilbert Parker, Edmund Gosse, Marie Corelli, M. Clemenceau, Arthur Pinero, E. F. Benson, Sybil Thorndike, Leslie Ward, John Masefield, George V, Jerome K. Jerome, the majority addressed to Viscount Burnham, together with a quantity of clipped signatures and typed letters signed from John Buchan, Henry Newbolt, Arthur Conan Doyle, Max Pemberton, William Orpen, H. G. Wells, W. G. Grace, Suzanne Lenglen, M. Kerensky, George Marconi, J. M. Barrie, C. B. Fry, Howard Carter and others, contemporary red morocco, elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, g.e.

來源

Viscount Burnham (1862-1933), by direct descent; bookplate of Gerald Edward Coke.

拍品專文

Harry Lawson, Viscount Burnham, a Liberal and later Unionist M.P., succeeded his father as director of The Daily Telegraph in 1903 and helped to frame the Representation of the People Act of 1918. He was president of the International Labour Conference and the Empire Press Union for several years. He is chiefly known as chairman of the committees which inquired into the salaries of teachers and which recommended the Burnham scales.