Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
09-10 November 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/968
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    369 Brownina (ELIzABerH Barrerr) Poems, NEW EDITION, 2 vol. PRESEN- TATION COPY FROM THE AUTHORESS with inscription on half-title of vol. 1 “ R. H. Rome with grateful regard from E.B.B.” A. L.s. from Ruskin inserted, original cloth; sold as an association book and not subject to return for imperfections of text Chapman & Hall, 1850 370 Eliot (George) Adam Bede, rrrsv EDITION, 3 vol. 16 pp. of advertisements at end of vol. III, library labels removed from end-papers, original cloth, slightly loose 1859 371 Audubon (J. J.) Ornithological Biography, or an account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States, vol. I to III only, boards; sold not subject to return 1831-5 372 Brooker (Rupert) THe BastiLie [in Rugby School Prize Compositions], original pale blue limp card wrappers 8v0o. hugby, A. J. Lawrence, Printer to the School, 1905 ** [XTREMELY RARE. Printed in the same year and from the same type as the FIRST EDITION, a copy of which was sold in these rooms in July last. 373 Barrie (Sir J. M.) George Meredith, 1909, First EDITION, woodcut of Flint Cottage, original cream cloth Constable and Co. [1909 | 374 Bennerr (ArNnoupD) THE OLp Wives’ TALE, FIRST EDITION, original cloth, binding somewhat worn and a little loose (clean inside) 1908 375 Wells (H. G.) Tono-Bungay, FIRST EDITION, original cloth (slightly loose) 1909 376 Elton (C. J.) William Shakespeare his Family and Friends, original cloth, uncut 1904 ** Sir Henry Irving’s copy, with his ex-libris. Inserted is an A. L.s. of Edwin Booth, signed ‘“ Ned,” asking for a copy of “ Julius Caesar” “as We are to do it,—I’m groggy in the Text.” The Property of the Rt. honble. Lord Forbes. Castle Forbes, Aberdeenshire. OCTAVO ET INFRA. 377 Op Puays. Sheridan (R. B.) The Critic, First EDITION, engraved title, wanting half-title and leaf of advertisements, 1781; The School for Scandal, 12m0, Dublin, 1781; The School for Scandal, 8S. Bladon and J. Thresher, 1779 (this is an anonymous play, not by Sheridan but a political skit dealing with the American War of Independence, see Williams’ “ Seven XVIIIth Century Bibliographies,’ p. 218); THE
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