ALBUMS – AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION


Collection of nine albums containing autographs, cut signatures, letters and signed photographs, including stars of stage, screen and music hall (Leslie Howard, John Gielgud, Alicia Markova, Harry Lauder), musicians and composers (Rachmaninov, Ivor Novello, Malcolm Sargent, Henry Wood, Nino Rota), sportsmen from the worlds of cricket (1936 Surrey, Essex and England teams), football (Bobby Collins, Joe Johnson), athletics, tennis (Arthur Ashe) and rugby, authors (PG Wodehouse, Rider Haggard, Arthur Quiller-Couch), artists (Augustus John, John Brett), politicians (Disraeli, Lloyd George, Nancy Astor, Ramsay Macdonald), the military (Foch, Haig, Kitchener, Allenby), clergy and other notables such as aviator Charles Lindbergh, Queen Victoria and Michael Faraday, five oblong 8vo, the rest 4to, calf, various ownership inscriptions, nineteenth and twentieth century; with a quantity of loose letters and cut signatures, including Yehudi Menuhin, Roger Bannister, World War II American and Japanese Generals (Merrill, Auchinlech, MacArthur, Itagaki), Victorian artists, and the MCC cricket team (game versus Australia, May 1977) (10)