Watermans Fountain Pen Advertisements from 1931
Taken from the dust cover on each of two books
1) The Hunchback of Notre Dame' by the author Victor Hugo, July 1931 first publication by Collins' Pocket Classics ' The Tale of Quasimodo and Esmeralda'
2) Omar Khayyam, the translation by Edward Fitzgerald, Novermber 1931, first publication by Collins' Pocket Classics, London and Glasgow.
'The pen that laughts at hard work'.
Taken from the dust cover on each of two books.
1) Second edition of Jane Eyre by the author Charlotte Bronte, inscribed to W.M. Thackeray esq. by the author. Thought to be a first publication of this story by Collins' Pocket Classics, London and Glasgow.
2) Published circa August 1936 'Historical Essays' by the English historian, essayist and poet Lord Macaulay, born 1800 died 1859.
