Warehousemen, Clerks and Drapers Schools.- Samuel Hope Morley (Samuel, first Baron Hollenden, Governor of the Bank of England, 1845-1929) Illuminated address to Lord Hollenden on his fifty years as Honorary Treasurer of the Warehousemen, Clerks and Drapers' Schools at Purley and Addington, Surrey, manuscript with illuminated decoration in gold and other colours, on vellum, frontispiece watercolour of Addington School, silk moiré endpapers, bound in original crushed and polished morocco, gold and green onlay "H" on upper cover, g.e., 1924 § Purley and Addington Schools. Album of photographs, manuscript title and 20 photographs, original morocco, gilt, 1951, folio & oblong 4to (2).

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