Items matching handwriting (results page 1)

Book InscriptionCraftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

Opposite the bookplate there is a hand-written inscription:

There is a monogram, HTB I think.

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Added: 2011-05-21

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John Carroll D..D., Portrait and SignatureMy Boy Life (1882)

A portrait of the author, Dr. John Carroll, and a reproduction of his signature.

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, signatures, handwriting, colour

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Added: 2015-09-01

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Inscription in the bookFamiliar Wild Flowers (1906)

My copy of the book has my father’s signature, Eric A. Quin, on the inside of the cover and, opposite, this inscription. This book belonged to Mrs. Wilson of River’s Lodge. Given to Mrs. Hull for the [...]

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Added: 2017-01-15

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General Grant’s signaturePersonal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (1885)

This was underneath the frontispiece showing the young Grant at the age of 21.

Keywords: handwriting, greyscale

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Added: 2008-01-07

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BookplateThe Holy Court (1663)

This bookplate, or “ex libris” as they are sometimes called, is pasted inside the cover of “The Holy Court.” The pencil writing at the top right is a bookseller’s annotation from the 1980s and is mode [...]

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Added: 2007-06-21

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Charles Dickens: Letter Written the Day before His DeathUniversal Classic Manuscripts Vol II (1901)

Charles Dickens. Letter, written on the day before his death, to Charles Kent, appointing to meet him on the morrow; Gad’s Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent, 8 June, 1870. holograph. [Add. MS. [...]

Keywords: letters, handwriting, fac similes, dickens, colour

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Added: 2017-09-27

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Harwood 1: scrap of paperEphemera and Things Found In Old Books (1806)

A small scrap of paper from Harwood’s 1801 “Grecian Antiquities”—I suspect it’s from the same person who left part of an envelope in the book, and dates from the early 1800s. There is a note that 35 [...]

Keywords: ephemera, handwriting, paper, colour

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Added: 2010-02-02

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Harwood 2: scarp of paper (other side)Ephemera and Things Found In Old Books (1806)

The other side of a small scrap of paper I found in my copy of Harwood’s 1801 “Grecian Antiquities” with some writing on it which I cannot read.

Keywords: ephemera, handwriting, paper, colour

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Added: 2010-02-02

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Harwood 3: scrap of envelope.Ephemera and Things Found In Old Books (1806)

A scrap of a letter or envelope that I found tucked inside my copy of Harwood’s 1801 “Grecian Antiquities”—there is a calculation, 14.56 × 225, giving £3,2557; there is also a stamp that I have taken [...]

Keywords: ephemera, handwriting, mathematics, postmarks, paper, colour

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Added: 2010-02-02

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Harwood 4: back of scrap of envelo;e.Ephemera and Things Found In Old Books (1806)

The other side of the scrap of a letter or envelope that I found tucked inside my copy of Harwood’s 1801 “Grecian Antiquities”—there is a list of books written on it, which I tried to transcribe here. [...]

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Added: 2010-02-02

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