Illustrated literature – Goldsmith (Oliver, 1728-1774), illu...

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Illustrated literature – Goldsmith (Oliver, 1728-1774), illus. Poirson (V. A.), The Vicar of Wakefield, prefatory memoir by Saintsbury (George), London, John C. Nimmo, 1886, royal 8vo, xvi + 291 + 23 (publisher’s catalogue) 114 colour illus., maroon endpapers, bevelled gilt and colour printed grey boards and spine; Kingsley (Revd. Charles 1819-1875), illus. Wilson (Edward A.) Westward Ho! 2 vols., New York, Limited Editions Club, 1947 royal 8vo, Vol. I: 292pp, Vol. II: 293-579pp, both with colour plates and vignettes, teal endpapers, quarter buff cloth over illustrated boards, five gilt royal crests to spine with gilt titles; Barrie (Sir James Matthew, 1st Bt., OM), illus. Thomson (Hugh, RI, 1860-1920), Quality Street, a Comedy in Four Acts, London, Hodder & Stoughton, n. d. (1913), No. 322/1000 MS signature of Hugh Tomson, 4to, viii + 198, 21 mounted colour plates and other vignettes in monochrome, flyleaf MS inscr. Mildred Lowther/November 1913, gilt embossed vellum boards and spine, but stained and dirty, contents good (3) ***Hon. Mildred Lowther OBE (1890-1973), civil servant, was the only daughter of James, Mr. Speaker Lowther, later 1st Viscount Ullswater GCB, PC and his wife, Mary, daughter of aristocratic amateur architect Alexander Beresford-Hope. She served as assistant pay officer, command Pay Office, 1915-1919, and in the second world war served in the diplomatic corps, the Ministry of Information and the Board of Trade. She was later an active councillor for St. Marylebone, London, and died in London unmarried 2nd July 1973.