Interesting Group of Ephemera and Signatures
Eugene-Francois Vidocq cut signature from fragment of title page; letter from Sir William Gell to The Countess of Blessington (Marguerite Gardiner); 1808 marriage settlement between Colonel (William Henry) and Mrs. Pringle, nee Eliot; 1920 dated Sir Compton Mackenzie typed letter, signed; Ambrose Bierce, photograph, signed on back, letter to Bierce from "Jean", four additional photographs of Bierce not signed; Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1st Baron Lytton), four attributed handwritten letters signed in a variety of ways including "E. Bulwer", "Lytton", "EBL", and one with no apparent signature, along with an unsigned lithograph; largest 12 x 16 in.
Provenance: From a New York Family
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Eugene-Francois Vidocq cut signature from fragment of title page; letter from Sir William Gell to The Countess of Blessington (Marguerite Gardiner); 1808 marriage settlement between Colonel (William Henry) and Mrs. Pringle, nee Eliot; 1920 dated Sir Compton Mackenzie typed letter, signed; Ambrose Bierce, photograph, signed on back, letter to Bierce from "Jean", four additional photographs of Bierce not signed; Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1st Baron Lytton), four attributed handwritten letters signed in a variety of ways including "E. Bulwer", "Lytton", "EBL", and one with no apparent signature, along with an unsigned lithograph; largest 12 x 16 in.
Provenance: From a New York Family