Rev. Sydney Williams Wheatley (1869-1951), Literary Extracts...

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Rev. Sydney Williams Wheatley (1869-1951), Literary Extracts: being thoughts in verse and prose taken from many writers, dated 1893-97, illuminated title-page scrivened with Ecclesiastes XII:11, approx. 300ff of manuscript extracts and occasional notes, inscribed recto only, finely bound in contemporary brown morocco over boards, gilt, rubbed, head of spine chipped, marbled endpapers, 4to; Lett's Extract Book, an unassociated Victorian book of newspaper and periodical clippings, mid-19th c and later, approx. 100pp of printed ephemera, principally of local Nottingham interest or taken from Nottinghamshire publications, but including articles of Life in Arizona, Shakespeare, and with 6pp of MS, including extracts on women and witches, printed pagination as issued, original cloth, 8vo, (2) 

Provenance: 1st: Rev. Canon Sydney Williams Wheatley (1869-1951), Kent cleric and antiquarian, Honourary Canon (1908) and Assistant Librarian of Rochester Cathderal; inscribed ffep.