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[British Politics] 24 items (mostly cut signatures): Gerald du Maurier, Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh (Queen Victoria's second son), also members of Parliament, judges, etc. Each with color lithograph from Vanity Fair. 23 are signed, 1 handwritten and lacking signature. Signatures and Vanity Fair caricatures mostly very good to near fine, often with minor toning. A few more worn. ++ Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh. ++ Judge Charles John Darling. ++ Viscount Cross. ++ Sir Charles Russell of Killoven. Franking signature at lower left of an envelope addressed to Godfrey Cushington at the Home Office. ++ Gerald du Maurier. Slight dust soil to Vanity Fair. ++ Ernest Lankester. Owner’s date in lower portion of signature sheet: “27/8/68.” ++ Spencer Horatio Walpole. ++ Adolphus F. O. Liddell. ++ Henry C. Raikes. Franking signature. Raikes was Member of Parliament and later Postmaster General. ++ Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. ++ Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird. ++ Rev. Arthur Stanley. 1st leaf only of AL, dated 1871. ++ Rennell Rodd.++ Lord Egerton of Tatton.++ Robert Fowler. Member of the House of Commons. ALS (1 sentence, June 19, 1884), mildly foxed. ++ Charles Cecil Cotes. Slight creases to Vanity Fair. ++ Lord Edmund George Fitzmaurice. ALS, dated “Oct 8/83.” ++ Earl of Westmoreland. ++ Dion Boucicault. ++ Henry Villebois. ++ John Holms. ++ Sir Edward Grey. Commissioner of Portsmouth Dockyard. ++ W. E. H. Lecky. ALS on House of Commons letterhead. ++ Baron Ferrer Herschel. ++ 15th Duke of Norfolk.
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