Catalogue of Printed Books and a Few Manuscripts, Comprising the Property of Miss C. M. Morris (deceased); the Property of Major A. Hilton Johnson; the Property of the Very Rev. Dean Hannah; etc. (Sotheby Auction Catalogue)

Published by Sotheby and Co., London, 1929

About this Item

111 pp., 948 lots. Unmarked. Sale took place Dec. 9-11, 1929. "Consisting of Early Printed Books, especially Theological and Medical Works,; Books illustrated by Bewick, Leech, Rowlandson, etc.; Early Editions of English Literature, including First Editions of Peregrine Pickle (1751), Gray's Poems (1768), Tristram Shandy, Vicar of Wakefield, and of Novels by Scott, Dickens, de Morgan, etc.; XVIII Century Pamphlets, etc., The Property of Miss C. M. Morris (deceased); and of Other Collectors. Hubbard's Narrative, Boston, 1677, and other Americana; First Editions of Fanny Burney, Byron, Coleridge, Crabbe, Hazlitt, Hobbes, Lamb, Landor, Tennyson, etc., and of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, first issue; also a MS. Horae, XV Century; Lafontaine, Fables, 1796, in green morocco; and Gascoigne's Workes, 1587, Selected from the Library at Curragh Chase, Co. Limerick, The Property of a Lady; Rare Modern First Editions, and a Good Set of Surtees' Sporting Novels, The Property of W. Marchbank, Esq." Etc. Seller Inventory # 001259

Bibliographic Details

Title: Catalogue of Printed Books and a Few ...

Publisher: Sotheby and Co., London

Publication Date: 1929

Binding: Original Wrappers

Condition: Good