Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
23-26 July 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/753
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    936 Shakespeare (W.) The Works... Volume the Seventh, containing Venus & Adonis. Tarquin & Lucrece And His Miscellany Poems. With Critical Remarks on his Plays, &e. to which is Prefix’d an Essay on the Art, Rise and Progress of the Stage, vol. VIT only, panelled calf London: Printed for E. Curll...and E. Sanger... 1710 937 Shakespeare (W.) Othello, frontispiece, R. Walker, 1734; King Lear, frontispiece, J. Tonson, 1734 ; As You Like It, frontis- piece, 1786 ; together 3 vol. sprinkled calf gilt, inside borders, t. e.g. by Kazakerley (3) 938 Stoker (Bram) Under the Sunset, illustrations, vellum, g. e. 1882 —Rideing (W. H.) How Tyson came Home, presentation enscription from the author, cloth, 1904; and 2 others, each with presentation inscription from the author to Bram Stoker (4) 939 Sroxer (Bram) Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, 2 vol. THE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, 166+ 374 leaves, with printed list of contents to each volume, in two lined solander cases ; together with a copy of the first edition of the book, 2 vol. illustrations, linen gilt, uncut, 1906 (4) x” Every sheet of the manuscript is dated ; the work was begun on Jan. 4, and printed on June 27th, 1906. Irving died on Oct. 13th, 1905. * 940 Suckling (Sir John) Fragmenta Aurea... The Third Edition, cropped, rough calf, 1658; Works, panelled calf, 1709— Lucretius. Six Books De Natura Rerum, done into English Verse [by Thomas Creech]... The Second Edition, frontis- piece, calf, Oxford, 1683 (3) 941 Thurston (Joseph) The Toilette, frontispiece, panelled sheep, 1730—Gray (Thomas) Poems, with Notes by Gilbert Wake- field, calf, 1786—Thurlow (Edward, Lord) Poems on Several Occasions, straight-grained blue morocco gilt, g.e.1813 (3) 942 TYNDALE (WILLIAM) The Obedyence of a Chrysten Man, black letter, title within woodcut border, slight water-stains, red morocco gilt, g. é. . [Colophon] @, Imprinted at London, by Wyllyam Coplande. 1561 QUARTO. 943 [Addison (Joseph)] Rosamond. An Opera. Humbly Inscrib’d to Her Grace the Dutchess of Marlborough, Fikst EDITION, a few numerals cut, unbound London: Printed for Jacob Tonson ... 1707 G 2
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