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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    176 * x eo * a 178 Lo 180 181 182 19 Disraeli (Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, statesman and man of letters) Harly A.L.S. ‘* Benj. Disraeli,’ occupy- ing 8pp. 4to, addressed to Robert Wheeler, Wycombe, with endorsed 8., Bradenham House, Tuesday, n.d., with portrait (2) 2 . Modern scepticism now assumes the airy garb of French philosophy. 1 confess I admire more the native breed: it is more earnest & decorous, more solemn, serious & sincere, & never violating the dignity of philosophical discussion by that wild mocker & dashing ridicule, which Voltaire has made the fashion. He considers his father’s extensive library a great trust, and that his neighbours ‘‘ have as strong a moral right to its use, as to walk in a Park, or gaze in a Picture Gallery.” Carlyle (Thomas, historian) A.L.S., lp. 12mo, Chelsea, May 19, 1845, ‘‘I was never in my life busier— surrounded by Devils (of various kinds) oh Lamb (Charles) Subscription and §8., with two portraits, ete. (5) Egan (Pierce, the elder, author of ‘ Life in London’) A.L.S., lp. 4to, to Mr. Mitchell, M.A., 1820, inviting him to read two sheets and point out anything improper and incorrect, and to speak candidly whether the outline of - Corinthian Tom is in character Literary Ladies. A.Ls.S. by Louisa 8. Costello, Eliza Cook, Amelia Opie (MS8.), Hannah Cowley, Elizabeth Inchbald, Hester L. Piozzi, Harrist Lee, Sophia Lee, Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, Mary Godwin, Charlotte Smith, Charlotte Lennox (to Garrick), Elizabeth Griffith (to Garrick), Catharine Macaulay, EK. Pennington (to Richardson, her father), Elizabeth Kistob, Margravine of Anspach, etc., etc., some with portraits (a large parcel) Literary Ladies. A.Ls.S. by Barbara Hofland, Lady Sydney Morgan, Mary W. Shelley (mentioning Franken- stein), Lucy Aikin, Eliza Cook, Adelaide O’ Keeffe, Anna Jameson, etc., etc., some with portraits (a large parcel) Editors, Collectors, ete. A.Ls.S. by John Ker (3rd Duke of Roxburghe), Sir Thomas Hanmer (editor of Shakespeare), William Jerdan, Dawson Turner, Richard Payne Knight, ete., etc., some with portraits (a large parcel) Booksellers, ete. A.Ls.S. by Edmund Curll, John Almon, B. Bernard Lintot, James Lackington, John Basker- ville, ete., ete., also Ss. of Jacob Tonson, William Bowyer (1740), John Baskett, Thomas Payne (1755), Robert Scott, Moses Pitt, etc., etc., some with portraits (a large parcel) Enp oF First Day’s Saws.
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