The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-29
SUICIDES RARE BOOKS.
Collection worth Nearly Half a Mil
lion Dollars.
Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record.
What is said TO be the finest individual
collection of books ever offered for sale in
the United States or Europe will be dis
posed of on Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day next. when the library owned by How
ard T. Goodwin, the confideStial clerk Of
Cassatt & Co. of Philadelphia, who COM
mitted suicide last January, will come UNI
der the auctioneer's hammer. During his
life Mr.. Goodwin was recognized by dealers
and publishers as a thorough bibliomaniac,
and some dealers took advantage of his
greed for books by victimizing him with
practically worthless publications. These.
however. are in the minority among a col
lection of books that, it is said, cost him
$4,000.
Mr.. Goodwin seldom read or even looked
at any of his books after he had purchased
them He had a mania for buying, though,
and only a comparatively few of the books
that form his collection have been taken
from the boxes in which their makers
shipped them. This rare collection en-
braces the handiwork of the most noted
makers OF books that the world has known.
The writings OF all the masters are repre-
scented in the most costly bindings. and are
illustrated by artists Of established reputa-
ton. The bindings from the shop of Fayak-
erley, OF Liverpool are. perhaps, the most
conspicuous. Nearly all of these are OF
fnlaid leather, with hand-painted fore-edges
In water colors. The workmanship of such
noted binders as David, Marcel and Be
court, of France, and Lautic, Morrel and
strikeman, of this country, is also repre-
sentsd Aiken; RoWlandSon. entrih,
uted illustrations to many of the volumes
One book that occupies prominent place
In the collection Is a rare copy OF , 1ne sec
Jaunts and Jollities," published by Acker-
man in London in 1s4S. This volume, con-
tanning several fuigage Illustrations s6n by a.
principally treating of the management and
choice of horses, by Nimrod, and illustrated
by Turner, is valued at $50. 1t was pub
ushed by Dittman, London. in 1881. A rare
work. Liber Veritatis, containing zoe repro
auctions of the original designs of Claude
Lorrain. also represents an expenditure OF
$50 for each of the three volumes 1t was
printed in London in HI.
The works of ]. Fenimore Cooper, In
thirty-three volumes are as handsomely T,ls
binding Is in brown leather, with difficult
fnlaid work. illustrative of MarcePs best
style. On the reverse side is burnt por-
trait OF Cooper, with his autograph. There
are only ten copies Of this edition in ex-
fstence, and each set is valued at $500.
The work of George Cruikshank appears
reproduction of the artists last cartoon.
1.-The Internal Fiend," with an autograph
inscription, dated Aug: 9, 1871, is exceed
ingly rare. The rare photographed works
OF Rev. T. f. Dibdin. which began to APP
pear in 1917, are valued at $75 a volume.
Bound by Becourt in manner similar to
that OF the Cooper set, except that the
leather Is blue, the complete works of AL
exander Dumas, in sixty volumes, are con-
spicuous for their cost and beauty. The set
Is one OF ten published as an autograph
edition. and was purchased by Mr.. Good
win for 5000. An autograph edition of
Charles Kingsley's works also cost Mr..
Goodwin 500 for each of the fourteen vol
umes- A work of particular rarity is the
reproduction OF the paintings collected by
Napoleon while emperor of France. The
ten volumes that compose the set were
printed in Paris In 1904 and were added to
the collection of which they now form a
part at an expenditure of 81 500 Sir Walter
SCOTS Waverley novels, fifty-one in num-
Der, were acquired at cost of s.. 100. The
works OF other authors, in equally expen-
sive bindings, compose a large portion of
the Goodwin collection.