Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
April 1899
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/71
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    228 SHENSTONE (WILLIAM) THREE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH LETTERS signed, written by Shenstone to Dr. Livie (1762), and one addressed to Mr. Hylton, all relating to Baskerville’s Horace, portrait of Shenstone inserted, A MOST INTERESTING LOT (4) 229 BASKERVILLE’s ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO HORACE WALPOLE, with specimen sheet of his type, AN EXCEEDINGLY INTERESTING NOTE, dated Nov. 2, 1762 olio ** Baskerville speaks bitterly in this remarkable con of the want of public appreciation of his work : “I have taken the Liberty of sending you a specimen of mine begun ten years at the age of 40, and prosecuted ever since with the utmost care and attention, on the strongest presumption that if I could fairly excel in this divine art it would make my affairs easy, or at least give me bread. But alas! in both I was mistaken...... My folio Bible is pretty far advanced at Cambridge, which will cost me near £2000. If this does not sell, I shall be obliged to sacrifice a small patrimony, which brings me in £74 a year, to this business of printing : which I am heartily tired of, and repent I ever attempted,” etc. 230 Baskerville (John) 4 long Autograph Letters to R. Dods- ley, Oct. 2 and Oct. 19, 1752, Jan. 16, 1754, and Dec. 20, 1756, all referring to his printing business (4) ; and 2 other Autograph Letters of the same, very interesting (6) 231 Bible (Holy), Baskerville’s finely printed edition, ruled in red, half blue morocco gilt, QUITE UNCUT, rare in this state fol. Camb. John Baskerville, 1760 232 Hunter (Wm. M.D.) Anatomy of the Gravid Uterus, 34 large plates, old calf atlas folio. Birm. J. Baskerville, 1777 Lae eee ss eee, ire ens JA a _— 233 Hatton (E.) The Merchant’s Magazine, or Trades Man’s = aw/> Ae Treasury, calf, 1707—Moxon (Joseph) Mechaniels Exer_ 4 etki ES ) cises, calf, 1703—Mechanick-Powers, or the mystery of ~ p)? / Wy. Nature and Art unvail’d, calf, 1698; and others (5). “ Gare] 234 Shakespeare, Churchwardens’ Papers: a Descriptive Ac- Dob insraresl Ve! count of a series of Churchwardens’ Presentments, ete. AA 1644 appertaining to the Parish of Stratford-on-Avon, by Clarence Hopper—An Elizabethan Garland, being a catalogue of 70 black letter Ballads—Hamlet, 1603, a Jjacsimile reprint ; ALL PRESENTATION COPIES from J. O. Halliwell sm. 4to. (3) 235 Fashion. The Freaks of Fashion, tllustrated, with 115 coloured plates, from 1830 to 1839, bound into 1 vol. 1830-9; and one other (2)
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