The valuable library of books, in Fonthill Abbey. . A catalogue of the magnificent, rare, and valuable library, (of 20,000 volumes) illustrated, in many instances, with two or three sets of proof and other plates; generally of the most choice editions; selected with great care, and the utmost liberality, during the last forty years; also, of the books of prints, galleries of art, curious missals and manuscripts, the Persian and Chinese drawings, &c. &c. &c. Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Phillips, at the abbey, on Tuesday, the 3d of October, and four following days, and on Thursday, 23d October, 1823, & four following days, (Sundays and Mondays excepted) at half-past twelve each day precisely. ...
William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844)
Category
Books
Date
1823
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3069334
Summary
Bibliographic description
6pts[10], 113, [6], 122-175, [3], 291-342, [10], 231-278, [1], 176-222, [2], 343-391, [1 ]p.), plate . ill.. . 8vo.. Partially priced (pictures, pp. 231-178) and with marginal manuscript marks in pencil. Imperfect?: paginates ... 291-342, [8]...; but collates complete. Provenance: Nineteenth-century pen initials on front board: F.L.M.; unidentified pencil note dated 25/10/33 about the un-priced BM copy; inscribed in pen on front flyleaf: R. W. Ketton-Cremer Felbrigg 1937 [Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)]. Binding: Half speckled calf over brown paper boards, sewn on three cords, red morocco label: Library of Books in Fonthill Abbey.
Makers and roles
William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844) William Phillips