Bearing a modest estimate of £50-75 but sold instead at £800 by Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (23% buyer’s premium) on September 4 was a copy of Women’s Suffrage: a Short History of a Great Movement (1912) by that renowned campaigner for women’s political rights, Millicent Garrett Fawcett.
Inscribed by the author to Irene Hancock, it was accompanied by two unused but seemingly related postcards.
Another of the day’s bigger surprises was a bid of £2000 on an undated, small octavo volume in broken boards called Homan Turpin’s Brief Description of England and Wales.