Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
March 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/449
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    101 103 104 105 GRAPHICAL VIEWS AND EXTRACTS FROM Books, MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS REFERRING TO SAMUEL JOHNSON, in 14 vol. cloth about 450 are portraits, including Miss Martha Ray, by Valentine Green, after N. Dance (1779), and portraits of James Hervey and George Whitefield (all mezzotints), a portrait of Wesley in colours, and portraits of Lord Kames (Bengo, after Martin), George Colman (E. Scriven, after Sir Joshua Reynolds), Edward Cave (Worlidge, after Kyte), T. Davis, Boswell (Freeman, after Reynolds), Mrs. Thrale (Finden, after Reynolds), Johnson (S. W. Reynolds, after Sir Joshua Reynolds), Mrs. Garrick (W. P. Sherlock, after Cath. Reid), ete. The coloured views include London Bridge (1814), London from the Thames (1809), Westminster Abbey (by Robert Havell), Interior of St. Paul’s (Bluck, after Pugin and Rowlandson), and a coloured aquatint of Fleet Street in Johnson’s Time (mounted and stained, margins cut). Among other items are old play-bills, cari- catures, and satirical prints and autographs (including Hester Lynch, Piozzi, George III and Samuel Richardson). The extracts from papers, magazines, etc., include The Spectator, Gentleman’s Magazine, European Magazine, London Magazine, London Gazette, Universal Magazine, Ladies’ Monthly Museum, The Athenaeum, The Monthly Mirror, The Westminster Magazine, ete. Kexmscorr Press. Voragine (Jacobus de) The Golden Legend, translated by William Caxton, edited by F.S. Ellis, 3 vol. woodcut title and borders, and 2 full-page woodcuts by Sir KH. Burne-Jones, half holland 1892 Lilburne (John) The Freeman’s Freedome vindicated, 1646, and five other Pamphlets by Lilburne, in 1 vol. calf gilt — Custom of Merchants and Bills of Exchange: Finding on a Trial before Lord Chief Justice Hales (28 pp.) no separate title, boards (1671) ; ete. (3) Luther (M.) Historien von des Ehrwirdigen inn Gott seligen theuren Manns Gottes D. Martin Luthers....durch herrn M. Johann Mathesium den Eltern, gothic letter, ttle an black and red, original stamped pigskin over wooden boards, metal centre and corner-pieces, catches and clasps Nurnberg, 1576 Marchesinus (Joannes) Mammotrectus: expositio in singulos libros Bibliorum, gothic letter, double columns, 226 leaves [| Hain-Copinger, 10557 ; Proctor, *4168], ¢nitialsin red and blue, paragraph marks in red, purple morocco gilt, g.e. with Mark Masterman Sykes’ hookplase inside cover Venice, Franz ee and Nicolaus of Frankfurt, 1476 Morris (B. R.) British Game Birds and Wildfowl], 60 coloured plates, half calf 1855
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