Happy Thoughts Birthday Book – Selected and Arranged from Mr Punch’s Pages by Rosie Burnand (London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1888)
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Birthday book containing quotations and illustrations from Punch, signed on the relevant dates by Linley Sambourne, John Tenniel, Harry Furniss, Anstey Guthrie, E. I. Milliken, A. W. à Beckett, W. L. Bradbury, Percival Leigh, F. C. Burnand, W. H. Bradbury, and Harry Lucy. With postcard inserted ...
Out letter books, indexed, of Ewan Agnew, Assistant Managing Director of Bradbury, Agnew and Co. from 1924-1930. The letters relate to company business such as finances and staff. Some personal correspondence relating to Agnew's literary, theatrical, and political ambitions is also included.
Sir Daniel Macaulay Stevenson v. Bradbury, Agnew and Co.
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Correspondence and legal papers relating to Sir Daniel's suit against Bradbury, Agnew and Co., who attempted to shorten Sir Daniel's annual subscription to Punch in proportion to the magazine's price rise. Sir Daniel sued for breach of contract.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848)
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First edition bound from the parts issue. With annotations on pp. 405-6 by a secretary or printer's reader proposing several minor amendments and four substantive revisions. Thackeray rejected most of the minor amendments but adopted the substantive revisions for the book edition. These changes d...
Contains annual financial statements under the following headings: Printing and Publishing, General Statement of Capital Liabilities and Assets, Printer's Department Profit and Loss Account, Interest Statement, and Printing and Publishing Profit and Loss Account. Enclosures include three letters ...
Sixty years of Eno, with illustrations from Punch (London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1928)
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Booklet celebrating the life of James Crossley Eno, inventor of a digestive remedy called Eno's Fruit Salt. The booklet contains health-related cartoons from Punch and examples of Eno advertising.