An early to mid-20th century leather bound commonplace book,...

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£30 - £50

An early to mid-20th century leather bound commonplace book, containing some autographs, including a signed b/w press photograph of Arthur Askey, Ursula Hanway, other entertainment personalities, best wishes and felicitations of fellow students of Watford Art School, original compositions, drawn and painted, presumably from school contemporaries, etc., c. 1940, oblong 16mo; another, earlier, compiled from Christmas 1908 to 1914 with original prose and verse compositions, sketches and watercolour studies, Chinese calligraphy, etc., oblong 12mo (2)