The Lord Chamberlain (15 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. 26th Edition. Second Printing. Publisher's glossy wraps, illustrated with maps and B&W photographs. . Former owner's note on acquisition (1989), else fine; otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. . Maps and Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 48 pp. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. New Edition. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** A very nice soft cover copy. Cover has tanned at the edges, glossy pages are clean and well bound. Black/White illustrations, advertisements, fold-out floor plan. Original price: One Shilling. 4.75 X 7.25" 90 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. New Edition. Contents state that House of Commons was currently being reconstructed from World War II damage - Foundation Stone was laid in 1948 and reconstruction was completed in 1950. Fold-out plan on tissue at rear. 90 pages. Darkened covers, sound binding, clean pages and end-papers, corners are lightly rubbed. No dust jacket, as published. Previous owner's name in ink at front. Undated by publisher. Dated from content/images. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 53223051017. All our books are sent by tracked mail. …

Condition: Very Good. 7 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 4 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17 x 24 cms. Category: Institute of Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Probably late 1940's, early 1950's in date. Stapled edition, tightly bound. Illustrated covers exhibit some light handling wear and a little foxing at the edges. b/w photographic plates and line drawings of architecture: coloured fold out plan at the end (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. 22 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17 x 26 cms. Category: The Ancestor; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. 48 pages. text lightly tanned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 071855003X. Hardback. No Dust jacket. Reprint edition. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs to edges and corners of covers. No Signature.

Condition: Good. Glt embossed card with manuscript name. 12 x 18.5cm.,Tape remnants on edges. The Lord Great Chamberlain at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 was David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie. He was responsible for the overall organization of the ceremony, including ensuring all the details were correct and that everything went smoothly. The Earl of Scarbrough, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., T.D. was appointed to the position by Queen Elizabeth II in the early 1950s.The personal copy of Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan (1905-1990), who was a Pakistani diplomat and the country's first female governor.She was born Sheila Irene Pant on 13 February 1905 in Almora, British India (today's India), to a Brahmin family who had converted to Christianity two generations prior.Academically brilliant, she graduated from the University of Lucknow in 1927 with bachelor's degrees in economics and theology. She obtained a double master's degree in economics and sociology in 1929. In 1931, she became professor of economics at Indraprastha College in Delhi, where she met her future husband, lawyer Liaquat Ali Khan, when he visited to deliver a lecture on law.The couple married in 1932, despite her family's objection. The bride converted to Islam and took the name Begum Ra'ana. She became involved with the Muslim League, devoting herself to creating political consciousness among the Muslim women in British India.After the Partition in 1947, Liaquat Ali Khan became Pakistan's first prime minister. As the first First Lady of Pakistan, Begum Ra'ana founded or helped establish organisations that uplifted women's rights and women's public role, such as the Pakistan Women's National Guard (PWNG), the Women's Naval Reserves and All Pakistan Women's Association (APWA).…

On 11 x 6 cm piece of aged paper, with patches of discoloration and traces of mount on reverse. Good clear firm and undamaged signature on front: '[.] I am Sir / Yr Obt. Sert. / Sydney'. The reverse reads: '[.] ristricted from killing rabbits on the land lately taken on lease from me and also from ploughing up any part of it but I hereby give you leave to kill rabbits or any [.]'. See Image.…

Condition: Good. Glt embossed card with manuscript name. 12.7 x 18.6cm.; together with driving and parking instructions.and the label to place on the windscreen. . The Lord Great Chamberlain at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 was David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie. He was responsible for the overall organization of the ceremony, including ensuring all the details were correct and that everything went smoothly. The Earl of Scarbrough, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., T.D. was appointed to the position by Queen Elizabeth II in the early 1950s.The personal copy of Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan (1905-1990), who was a Pakistani diplomat and the country's first female governor.She was born Sheila Irene Pant on 13 February 1905 in Almora, British India (today's India), to a Brahmin family who had converted to Christianity two generations prior.Academically brilliant, she graduated from the University of Lucknow in 1927 with bachelor's degrees in economics and theology. She obtained a double master's degree in economics and sociology in 1929. In 1931, she became professor of economics at Indraprastha College in Delhi, where she met her future husband, lawyer Liaquat Ali Khan, when he visited to deliver a lecture on law.The couple married in 1932, despite her family's objection. The bride converted to Islam and took the name Begum Ra'ana. She became involved with the Muslim League, devoting herself to creating political consciousness among the Muslim women in British India.After the Partition in 1947, Liaquat Ali Khan became Pakistan's first prime minister. As the first First Lady of Pakistan, Begum Ra'ana founded or helped establish organisations that uplifted women's rights and women's public role, such as the Pakistan Women's National Guard (PWNG), the Women's Naval Reserves and All Pakistan Women's Association (APWA).…

Condition: Good. Embossed card with invitee in manuscript. 12.5 x 17.6cm. TO Gladys Venning, who was the Senior Matron at Manor House School, Limpsfield, Surrey from 1938 to July 1940, when Mary Spencer Churchill was in the 6th form. She recounts her career in "A Matron Remembers. Reminiscences of School Life Over Forty-Five Years" published in 1985. It provides an intimate, firsthand look at the daily routines and evolving culture of British girls' boarding schools through the eyes of a matron. Provenance: Estate of a Miss Doran who was headmistress at Clifton High School, Bristol, England in the 1960s where Gladys Venning was the senior matron.…

1p., folio. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with slight staining to blank reverse. Fairly written out on a piece of Britannia laid paper. 'Lord Chamberlain's Office | 10th. November 1849. | The Lord Chamberlain thinks it right to draw the attention of the Manager of the Theatre Royal Covent Garden to The Queen's Proclamation of the 6th. Instant, in which Her Majesty, for the Reasons therein stated, earnestly exhorts that the Public Day of Thanksgiving, the 15th. Instant be reverently and devoutly observed'. Thanks were to be given 'for the disappearance of the dreadful cholera', and the clear implication of the Lord Chamberlain's communication is that the theatre should be shut on that day.…

3pp, 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. In fair condition, lightly aged, with traces of mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Folded once. The letter begins: 'My dear Friend | I got yr kind note with many thanks I wish you to understand that by dealing [Dacus'?] intentino if as to give you 100£ but understanding afterwards, that as you kindly witnessed [last word underlined] her will it would not be Legal to leave it by will I therefore write to tell you that you shall have it at my Death & [?] most probably before, it, & as it shall be my first consideration.' He is enclosing £25, 'yr verry [sic] moderate account & with many many thanks for all yr frieship [sic] & sincere regards'. In a postscript he refers to the recipient's son, 'established at Brighton'. Also 'Spencer comes here frequently - & Donegall also he got the [?] of [?] yesterday -'.…