English Bibliography

Notebook containing bibliographical notes (notes on collations, sale prices, scarcity of copies, identification of anonymous and pseudonymous works etc.), arranged alphabetically, and written in a number of hands. Bound in at f. 46 is a key to the characters in Dibdin's Bibliomania, written on the verso of an address panel of a letter to 'Mr Sotheby, Wellington Street, Waterloo Bridge' [Samuel Sotheby (1771-1842), auctioneer]. The volume may therefore have been compiled or used at Sotheby's sale rooms.

1804-22, paper watermarked 1804

1 volume 1 volume: 203 × 140 mm., 243 ff. Later half-leather binding.

Stevens' 16 Sept. 1924, lot 42.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).