Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November-December 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/973
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CATALOGUE OF THE IMPORTANT COLLECTIONS THE WRITINGS OF CHARLES DICKENS AND OF OTHER XIX CENTURY AUTHORS FORMING PART OF THE LIBRARY OF Chomas Hatton, Esq. at Anstey Pastures, Leicester. (SOLD IN CONSEQUENCE OF HIS GIVING UP THAT RESIDENCE). THE DICKENS COLLECTION (of more than Kighty. Lots) includes | A “PICKWICK” OF ‘THE FOREMOST RANK, having practically every point and advertisement, in every part, correct ; The MacGeorge Copies of Nickleby (with an A. L. s. added relating to the printing) and of Chuzzlewit ; a fine Great Expectations, with the correct title- pages ; and very desirable Copies of the First Editions in general ; also a rare Playbill and signed Admission Ticket, with other Dickensiana ; Good Sets of the Annals of Sporting, Life in Paris, The Syntax Tours, Life of Napoleon, English Spy, Real Life in London, Surtees’ Sporting Novels ; The Edinburgh Burns, in boards, uncut ; Gissing, Workers in the Dawn, original cloth ; a good Series of Thomas Hardy, including Desperate Remedies and the 1903 Dynasts; Hughes, Tom Brown’s School Days, orzginal cloth ; Scott, Guy Mannering, boards, uncut , Kipling ; Stevenson ; Trollope ; A VALUABLE THACKERAY COLLECTION, including an exceptional Set of the First Issue of Vanity Fair ; The Private Papers of James Boswell , Schwerdt’s Hunting and Hawking, ete. ; and a few Modern Works in Bibliography. WHICH WIL. BE SOLD BY AUCTION BY MESSRS. SOTO BY <« CO, G. D. Honson, M.V.O. F. W. Warren, O.B.E., M.C. C. G. DES GRAZ. Miss E, BarLow. ©. Y. PiuKineton, B.A. Auctioneers of Literary Property & Works illustrative of the Fine Arts, AT THEIR LARGE GALLERIES, 34 & 35, NEW BOND STREET, W. 1. On MONDAY, the 30th of NOVEMBER, 1931, and following Day, AT ONE O'CLOCK PRECISELY. On View Three IDays previous. Catalogues may be had. Illustrated Catalogue (5 Plates), Price 2s.