The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-26
LONDON BOOK SALES.
9-aakespeaFian Quart0s q Feature o. tho
geasen-Netable Autographs. 0eld.

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LoNDoN, Aug. ie,-At Last the book sales
OF the Lcadon eeascn esem to have como
10 IN end. .Sotheby's iinai sale took place
on July ~, concluding with tho bid Of 1850
for tho ancient illuminated record of the
life and Miracles OF 81. Cuthbert,' already
described In TIE SUN, but other Arms
have prolonged their activities we'll into
August and disposed Of some items worthy
Of note.
The present month has witnessed the
first saiesroom appearance Of king
Glumpus.' q one act interlude which seems
70 rave frst been performed IN 1887. The
title suggests Thaokeray, and the booklet
contains three OF his drawings, tllustratin 9
The ~characterr OF the King, Lody Popkin.
Lord Lollvpop and q Mold OF Honour. In
1885 the original drawings, then belong
Ing to Dillon Croker, wero reproduced, and
this led 10 the assumption that the little
play was tho work Of Thackeray.
IL seems, however, doubtful whether the
novelist wrote moro than two songs which
are introduced, one, by the way, TO the
tune OF yankee Doodle The copy now
sold IL Q presentation one. Inscribed Miss
Emily Parker from her never-to-be-suf-
Aoiently-admired friend the author and
| though that sounds genuine, esrerts hold
that the handwriting 10 not that Of
Thaokeray.
Probably the little air OF mystery will
Don be dispersed. and meantime the
AZ ctioneers, Hodgson q Co.; have sold
King Gfumpus' for tSoS. The same firm
sold for 500 an album containing original
contributions by Charles Lamb, the chief
item being an eight line poem entitled
'The Boy, the Mother and the Butterfly
beginning Young william held the butterfly
In chase" and ending with the admonitiou:
'Remember, William, he 10 but a n.y.
shakespearian quartos have been q
feature Of the eesson. Not wen q. B. 8.
can stem tho tide OF rising market value.
a. may be Judged from the $3.50 paid for
q first quarto of 'Muoh Ado About Nothing
As far as quartoe sold publicly are oon-
$3.50 given last season for . damaged
"Riohard H. which was $50 above the
first folio record.
For quartos sold privately America etfll
holds the record, this being The 80 900 for
q unique o p Of -Titus Andronious," dis
covered last year In Sweden. II there has
boon nothing to approach that, II was,
nevertheless, remarkable that no fewer
than nine Of these precious volumes should
appear IN one Of the June sales. Together
they made slo,A1s, The highest item being
'The Merchant Of Venice at %, 800.
The single first folio that appeared this
eeason, being defective, brought only
S1,a2S. A second folio made 5000, and
two copies Of the fourth $3.50 and s6aS
respectively.
More novel were the seventeen pre-
Sh~akespearian plays discovered In the
library Of an transporting Irishman, who
was amazed to receive In exchange for them
Sl2,51o. Originally theee booklets, run
ming from ten to twenty pages, cost only
a few cents. Some Of them went to the
British Museum.
Among rare first editions may be noted
a oopy Of Milton's Paradise Lost" which
brought S526. It may be remembered
that the original manuscript Of Book I.
Of this poem appeared at Sotheby's in
1904 and was withdrawn from the eale at
the price Of s25 900. People were then
| greatly alarmed lest It should 60 to America,
and that. of course, Is just what happened
Other nots BILE first editions were .Robin-
son Crusoe.' n defective copy, $500; Beau.
NV Landlord ssso; shelley's. Queen Nab
$40, a record price; Vanity Fair. $500;
'The Vicar Of Wakefield" $3.50, and Wa YER
ley an uncut copy with dana ged backs,
Ben Jonson's Bible with his autograph
Common Order in Gaelic. 81 ,525; shelley's
Proposal for Putting Reform to the Vote
$500, and a copy Of -The Shelley Forgeries.'
which deceived Robert Browning, who con,
tributed an Introduction. and was detected
rare fourth edition Of Pilgrims Progress
made S5O5, and the anvil at which Bunyan
worked as q tinker at Elston also appeared
at a book sale. bringing 81,125..
Important manuscripts and autographs
have been fairly numerous this sesson.
United Sta tes end other documents Of
American interest formed part Of. the Gen.
Lafayette souvenirs nd relics, sold en- bloc
at Christie's on July 8 for the sum Of ST. oo.
the same rooms Nelson's famous iMemoran-
dun Of the Battle. Of Trafalger,' which
brought $4,000 and is now In the British
Museum. Correspondence between Nelson
and his bea uteous Emma, Lady Hamilton, 10
Of frequent occurrence at ssles. HE lest
anna tory epistles brought 81 ,425.
An uncommon and interesting series
Of letters, SIS in all, was that addressed
by Dorothy Jordan, the actress. to her
lover, the Duke Of Clarence, afterward
King William Nv. This is the woman de-
soribed by Hazlitt as the child Of nature.
VIII oee voice was as a cordial to the heart,
to hear whose laugh was to drink nectar
These letters, written betw cen 1908 and
1911, alb ound with bright descriptions Of the
theatrical life OF the period and Of the po-
litical and court life, and they bear elo-
quent witness to Dorothy's solicitude for
her children and her attachment to the
Duke. The concluding ones tell Of their
parting eadly enough. One Of the en-
velopes contained an old 60 Bank of England
note. The series realized 81, 875.
The original manuscript Of TO Mary
IN Heaven" by Robert Burns, brought
S7oO; Chatterton's first draft Of SAella'
81, 126; Thaokeray's lecture on Congreve
and Addison $3.50; Darwin's correspondence
with W. B. Tegetmeier $616; and various
manuscripts. dealing with America, col
lected into four volumes. $500.
Some valuable French manuscripts OF
the fifteenth century may also be noted.
lie Livre de Rustican, +" for which Quaritoh
gave $50 o and a 'Lanoelot du Lao 81, 500.
Illuminated Books OF Hours went up to
Ss,476, and the sign manual Of King Ed
ward VI. to letters patent with the great
seal OF England attached brought q, $50.
Finally. the season has produced various