BOOKS FOR COLLECTORS

With Coloured Frontispieces and many Illustrations. Large Crown 8vo, cloth.

CHATS ON ENGLISH CHINA. By Arthur Hayden.

CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE. By Arthur Hayden.

CHATS ON OLD PRINTS. By Arthur Hayden.

CHATS ON OLD SILVER. By E. L. Lowes.

CHATS ON COSTUME. By G. Woolliscroft Rhead.

CHATS ON OLD LACE AND NEEDLEWORK. By E. L. Lowes.

CHATS ON ORIENTAL CHINA. By J. F. Blacker.

CHATS ON MINIATURES. By J. J. Foster.

CHATS ON ENGLISH EARTHENWARE. By Arthur Hayden. (Companion Volume to "Chats on English China.")

CHATS ON AUTOGRAPHS. By A. M. Broadley.

A.L.S. OF WILLIAM WILSON, AN ACTOR OF THE "FORTUNE" THEATRE, TO EDWARD ALLEYN, OF DULWICH, 1620.

Frontispiece.

Chats on Autographs

BY A. M. BROADLEY

AUTHOR OF "DR. JOHNSON AND MRS. THRALE," JOINT AUTHOR OF "NAPOLEON AND THE INVASION OF ENGLAND," "NELSON'S HARDY," "DUMOURIEZ AND THE DEFENCE OF ENGLAND AGAINST NAPOLEON," ETC., ETC.

WITH ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS

"An Autograph Collection may be made an admirable adjunct to the study of History and Biography."

L. J. Cist [Preface to Tefft Catalogue, 1866]

LONDON T. FISHER UNWIN ADELPHI TERRACE MCMX

To SIR ISAMBARD OWEN, D.C.L., M.D., F.R.C.P. HON. FELLOW OF DOWNING COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, FIRST DEPUTY CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES, AND VICE-CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, A ROYAL AND FREE CITY, RENOWNED FOR THE RICHNESS OF ITS ARCHIVES, AND ITS CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH MEN OF LETTERS, THIS VOLUME IS, WITH HIS PERMISSION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.

The Knapp, Bradpole, May 6, 1910.

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