Sales catalogue: Puttick & Simpson

Date:
02 June 1921
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/24/391
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Puttick & Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    168 169 170 171 172 ¢ 174 18 Novelists, Dramatists, ete. A.Ls.S. by Capt. Marryat— G. P. R. James—W. Harrison Ainsworth—W. H. Maxwell . —Theodore EK. Hook—J. B. Buckstone—J. Sheridan Knowles—Arthur Murphy, etc., etc., some with portraits (a large parcel) Authors. A.Ls.8. by Thomas Sheridan (father of Richard Brinsley, initials)—B. W. Procter—Isaac D’Israeli— Capel Lofft (the elder)—Sir John Sinclair (2pp. 4to)— Sir §S. KE. Brydges—Bonnell ‘Thornton (to Colman, mentioning Garrick), ete., etc., with portraits, etc. (a large parcel) Smith (Adam, political economist) A.L.8., lp. 4to, Cannon- gate, 1779, with portrait (2) Murray (Lindley, ‘the father of English grammar,’ born in Pennsylvania) A.L.S., 38pp. 4to, to James Phillips, George Yard, Lombard Street, York, 14th : of dmo: 1796, a fine and characteristic letter, concerning his ‘‘ Power of Religion,” and mentioning the ‘‘ Grammar,” “I have no interest in any of them, but that of desiring to propagate their contents,” with profile portrait (2) Evelyn (John, diarist) Autograph MS., 12 lines, oblong 8vo, on the diet of man before the flood; ete., with two portraits (3) Burton (Robert, ‘Democritus Junior’) Autograph Signature on the title-page of ‘‘ Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis medici de Subtilitate bri XXI.’’ with portrait, ete. (8) Stevens (George Alexander, wrote ‘ A Lecture upon Heads’) A.L.S., 2pp. folio, Nottingham Goal, March 27, 1761 175 for food. “ . Themistocles had many Towns to furnish his Tables, & a whole City had the charges of his Meals. In some respects I am like him, for I am fed by the labours of a Multitude; a Wig has kept me two days, the Trimmings of a Waistcoat as long: a Ruffle Shirt has paid my Washerwoman, a pair of Velvet Breeches discharg’d my Lodgings, my Coat I swallow by degrees, the Sleeves I breakfasted upon for three days: the Body Skirts, &ca., served me as long: and two pair of Mens pumps enabled me to Smoke several pipes. He is most merry when most miserable, and asks for a gathering [collection] to be made for him. Ireland (William Henry, jforger of Shakespeare MSS.) A.L.S., lp. 4to, with three of his forgeries, including Shakespeare MS. (Lp. 4to), Shakespeare signature (four attempts), and Q. Elizabeth’s signature (4)
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