BRUNEL ISAMBARD KINGDOM: (1806-1859) Lot n° 1455

BRUNEL ISAMBARD KINGDOM: (1806-1859) British civil engineer, one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution. A good, large D.S., I K Brunel (a fine example), two pages (vellum), large oblong folio, London, 22nd April 1853. The partially printed document, completed largely in manuscript, is an indenture of conveyance between Brunel and James Michael Holdship to Mrs. Elizabeth Hammond and others for two pieces of land described as ´the Stable Field and Garden and Dragon Croft´ situated in Barn Yates, Leek, Staffordshire. Signed by both Brunel and Holdship individually to the verso , acknowledging receipt of a payment, ´Received on the day of the date of the within written Indenture of and from the within named Elizabeth Hammond, Thomas Brandon and William Lomas, the sum of Five hundred and fifty pounds, the consideration money within expressed to have been paid by them to us´, also bearing several countersignatures including those of witnesses. With an affixed blind embossed blue revenue stamp in the upper left margin. A small portion of the lower third of the document has been neatly excised, with the loss of some text. About VG