Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
18 November 1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/823
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 25 SIZES MIXEv DRYDEN (John) A VERY FINK A. L.s. ! p. folio, 2. d., to Dr. Busby, headmaster of Winchester School, concerning the education of his sons ; of his younger he writes : His constitution is very tender; yet his desire of learning, I hope, will inable him to brush through the College ...I... wish the eldest may also deserve some part of your good opinion. with a Letter from Mrs. E. Dryden excusing her son’s absence from church (2) [See ILLUSTRATION. | DUGDALE (Sir William) A. L.s. 1 p. sm. 4to, Herauld’s Office, 25 Jany. 167%, to Robert Hawke at Gresham College, concerning a selection of books from the Duke of Norfolk’s library for use at the Herald’s Office, w/th engraved portrait of Dugdale, by [ollar (2) EDWARDs (George) Naturalist, Water-colour Sketch of an animal named Gerbo, brought from Barbary, the property of Mr. Scarlet of Hampstead, with description, 2 pp. 4to, 1751 1808, which destroyed Messrs. Nichols’s premises in Red Lion Passage. Among the books burned was Nichols’s History of Leicestershire. The collection includes Letters from Asperne, Beloe, Bindley, Bray, C. Burney, W. Caslon, and many others, arranged in a 4to vol., ha/f bound FoRTESCUE (Sir eo Chancellor of the Exchequer, A. I..s. 4 p. folio, London, Sept. 1591, mentioning Sir Walter Raleigh GALT (John), Valentine Green, J. M. Gutch, G. H. Grimm, and many others, addressed to John Nichols, in a 4to vol., half bound GARRICK (David) A very fine A.]..s. 1 p. 4to, Adelphi, Jan. 1, 1776, to Joseph Cradock : . Whenever you please to open your Budget, I shall attend it with great pleasure—I shall have a double pleasure in the operation, first to hear you read a tragedy, & next that tragedy is yours... Garrick (D.) A very FINE A. L. s. 3 pp. 4to, Adelphi, Sept. 14 1778, to Joseph Cradock : My Friends of the Faculty have order’d me abstinence from all theatrical matters—I have not seen Sheridan but once since the Death of poor Linley ... I had promis’d to write him a little Trifle for his opening, but I found myself so unfit for Scribbling that, for ye first time, I gave up the business & was brought in (like ye Tars who are admitted to Greenwich Hospital) disabled... )
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