A catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased: which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786, ... at her late dwelling-house, in Privy-Garden, Whitehall; ...
Skinner and Co.
Category
Books
Date
1786
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3027124
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii,[1],4-194p.,plate . 4to, 254mm x 205mm. Former shelfmarks: CL. Chest; PAM/15/17. Copy no. 1361 Provenance: Henrietta Cavendish Bentinck (1737-1827), from 1763 Countess of Stamford. MSS list of lots on front pastedown: 2357; 2929; 2947; 2950; 2924; 2939; 2946; 4093; 4100; 2813. The following lots are marked up in MSS with price of purchase and 'Lady Stamford': 440, 467, 1114, 1141, 1144, 2446, 2770, 2781, 4149. The following lot is marked up in MSS with price of purchase and 'Lord Stamford': 2947. The following lost are marked up as purchased by other named buyers: 1073, 1725, 2766, 4997, 4102, 4136, 4144 (Lady Weymouth); 2345 (Lord Weymouth);1120, 2932, 4147, 4152, 4153, 4155 (Duke of Portland); 2807, 2808, 2842, 2871, 2880, (The Queen); 2929 (Wedgwood); 2939, 2948, 2949 (Lord Gainsborough); 2950 (Lord Carmarthen); 2951 (Mr Payne, Bookseller); 2952, 4154 (Mr H. Walpole). Binding: Eighteenth-century full blue paper wrappers; MSS title on front cover.
Makers and roles
Skinner and Co.