Catalogue of valuable books and manuscripts: . including a portion of the libraries of the late Robert Roberts, Esq. (of Boston, Lincolnshire), the late George Boughton, R.A. and other selections comprising a large number of manuscripts, illuminated, devotional, historical and theological. Many important and interesting autograph manuscripts and letters of eminent ancient and modern writers; first editions of Elizabethan writers, Shakespeareana, including the poems of 1640; early folios; and interesting books relating to him; horae on vellum, incunabula; an unpublished French translation of Basilikon doron, by Louys Servin; rare Bibles, including Coverdale's 1535, and other early editions; Grolier Club publications, and a nearly complete set of the Kelmscott Press publications, on vellum, including the Chaucer. Which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, ... at their house, no. 13, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C. on Tuesday, the 21st of March, 1905, and four following days, at one o'clock precisely.
Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge
Category
Books
Date
1905
Materials
Measurements
255 x 163 x 12 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Townend, Cumbria
NT 3074535
Summary
Bibliographic description
155p. . 4to.. Stored in folder.. Provenance: manuscript on front cover: "Mr. George Browne. Proprietor of lots 1328 to 1335" [i.e. George Browne, 1834-1914]. With manuscript prices realised of certain lots, including those sold by George Browne, and those bought by him (e.g. lots 200 and 202).
Makers and roles
Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge