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Total number of records: 5

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
English Literature	4
Brotherton Collection	3
Herbert Read Collection	1

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Subject	Count
english literature	5
french literature	4
private press books	3
first editions	2
autographs	2
authors' presentation copies	2
letters	1
illustrated books	1
early printed books	1
auction catalogs	1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)	5
Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928	2
Bussy, Dorothy	1
Strachey, Philippa	1
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964	1
Sackville, Margaret, Lady, 1881-1963	1
Cobden-Sanderson, Richard	1
Eckman, S	1

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The Gosse Library : catalogue of valuable printed books, important literary manuscripts, autograph letters, etc. selected from the library of the late Sir Edmund Gosse... which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby and Co. ... [etc.]

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1928-1929

Includes bibliographical references.

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The Gosse Library : catalogue of valuable printed books, important literary manuscripts, autograph letters, etc. selected from the library of the late Sir Edmund Gosse... which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby and Co. ... [etc.] (pt.1)

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1928-1929

Includes bibliographical references.

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Catalogue of valuable printed books, the property of S. Eckman Jr, Esq., C.B.E. : comprising Continental books, including the Jenson Bible, 1479 with contemporary decorations, the Nuremberg chronicle, 1493, and Divina commedia, Parma 1795, presented by Kenyon to Wordsworth; English literature, including Donne's Pseudo-martyr, 1610, Drayton's Poly-Olbion, 1622, Exquemelins' Bucaniers of America, 1684-85, Coleridge's Fall of Robespierre, 1794, Leigh Hunt's copy of Hazlitt's Criticisms on art, 1843 and the Haggadah (1939), on vellum; first editions of Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Byron, Fennimore Cooper, Goldsmith, Rider Haggard, Leigh Hunt, Keats, Shelley, Thackeray and Trollope, including many presentation or association copies; colour plate books, including Boydell and Edy's Scenery of Norway, 1820, Dodwell's View's in Greece, 1821, Edward's Natural history, 7 vol., bound by Richard Montagu for Thomas Hollis, Fielding's English lakes, 1821, Hakewill's Jamaica, 1825, Janscha and Ziegler's Vues du Rhin, 1798, McKenney and Hall's Indian tribes, 1838-44, Roscoe's Monandrian plants, 1828, Sauvan's Tour of the Seine, 1821, and Smith's Insects of Georgia, 1797; a series of books from the Doves Press bound by the Doves Bindery, and books from the Ashendene, Caradoc, Essex House, Fanfrolico, Golden Cockerel, Gregynog, Kelmscott, Nonesuch, Riccardi and Shakespeare Head Presses; a fine series of extra-illustrated books. Which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co.... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond St., W.1 : days of sale, Tuesday, 21st November, 1967 ... Wednesday, 22nd November, 1967, Thursday, 23rd November, 1967 ... [etc.]

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1967

Includes bibliographical references.

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Catalogue of nineteenth-century and modern English and French first editions, presentation copies, autograph letters, literary manuscripts etc, comprising... the property of Leonard Amster ... John Sparrow ... Michael Sadleir ... J. Middleton Murry ... Messrs. Chatto & Windus ... Archibald Douglas ... J.M. Dawkins ... Lady Cynthia Asquith and Peter Davies ... : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond St., W.1 on Monday, the 25th November, 1957, and the following day ... [etc.]

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1957

Cover title: Catalogue of nineteenth-century and modern English and French first editions, presentation copies, autograph letters, literary manuscripts, etc.... and the final portion of the J.M. Barri...

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Catalogue of nineteenth-century & modern English & French literature, autograph letters & literary manuscripts : comprising first editions or presentation copies of Barrie... Which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co.... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond St., W.1, on Monday, the 11th May, 1964

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1964

Cover title: Catalogue of nineteenth-century & modern English & French literature, autograph letters & literary manuscripts, comprising the property of... Philippa Strachey ... Margaret Sackville ... ...