Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
February 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/835
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    552 553 504 555 356 557 558 559 560 561 Halliwell (J. O.) A Brief Hand-list of Books, ete., Illustrative of Shakespeare, one of 30 copies only, cloth, 1859—Collier (J. P.) Shakespeare’s Library, 2 vol. cloth, uncut [1843|— Friswell (J. H.) Life Portraits of Shakespeare, ¢/lustrations, cloth gilt, g. e. 1864—Forster (H. R.) A Few Remarks on the Chandos Portrait, cdlustrations. cloth, 1849 ; ete. (6) Halliwell (J. O.) A Hand-List of Upwards of a Thousand Volumes of Shakespeariana, one of 25 copies only, half roan, back defective, 1862; ete. (3) Jacob (Giles) The Poetical Register : or the Lives and Charac- ters of the English Dramatick Poets, FIRST EDITION, portraits. original panelled calf, joints broken, for E. Curll, 1719 ; ete. (2) [Kelsall (Charles)] The First Sitting of the Committee on the Proposed Monument to Shakspeare, boards, uncut, Chelten- ham, 1823— An Authentic Narrative of Mr. Kemble’s Retirement from the Stage, portrait, original boards, uncut, 1817; etc. (7) Kemble (J. P.) Macbeth and King Richard the Third : an Essay, half morocco gilt, 1817—Farmer (Richard) An Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare, half roan, interleaved, Bale, Pee (2 [Lennox (Charlotte)] Shakespear Illustrated, 3 vol. dedication (10 pp.) by Samuel Johnson, half blue morocco gilt, Shake- speare’s arms on upper cover, t. é.g. 12mo. 1753-54 Malone (Edmond) A Letter to the Rev. Richard Farmer, Malone (E.) An Account of the Incidents from which... Shake- speare’s ‘'empest [was] derived, one of 80 copies only, presentation inscription in the author's hand, 1808 ; Chal- mers (George) Another Account of the Incidents from which . Shakspeare’s Tempest [was] derived, presentation inscription in the author's hand, 1815; bound with another, half morocco, t. é. g. [Morgan (Maurice)} An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff, wrappers, back and lower cover wanting, uncut, 1777—Plumptre (James) Observations on Hamlet, boards, back defective, uncut, Cambridge, 1796 ; ete. (4) New and Merrie Prognostication (A), edited by James O. Halli- well, no. 15 of 30 copies preserved (70 destroyed by the editor), wrappers, 1860; ete. a parcel
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