New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-04
SHAKESPEARE PRICES LOW
George D. Smith Gets the Best
Offered at the Hoe Sale.
TOTAL FOR THE DAY, S76,634
Edgar Allan Poes Prophetic Let
ter on the Drink Habit
Fetches 81, 700.

ter on the Urlnk ndUlt
Fetches S1,700.
0issppofrtr1ent ruled the gallery at the
ale - the Robert Hoe library last night
r was expected by those who came TO look
or that the prices for the thirty lots or
Ehakssreare offered. and especially for the
four folios would break all known records
But instead the four folios brought only
,2s 500 and all the shskespeares. including
t,e eirht dated in the last century. went
for total Of S47.1co
There was one person, however VINO as
usua' was not disappointed. That was
George n Smith. % No. As Wall street
NJ smith was the man who obtained the
fo,,r folios A. the modest price named, ana
he tol6 IN utilization aftsrward how Mars
den J. Perry the Providence collector p'iu
80 90 not long ago in London for SCI
containing only one more folio thah oe
bought last night
Resides the four folios Mr.. smith carried
away FIVE OF the eight ouartos offered for
total ~ &. 7s5. while the three remaining
cost three other collectors S4s25. MI
Smiths highest bid was for the frs, follo'
copy IN which many OF the leaves are
II the second largest copy known. For this
10 paid $1,000. after a spirited round OF
bidding In which Dodd & Livingston. Der
,s-d Ouaritch END Dr.. A. s ". Rosenbach
,oiue6 Mr. Hoe procured this volume at
t1e Sykes sale IN London ten or twelve
wears ago for $3.50
Bought the Only Other Copy.
~re only Other copy sold AZ auction in
-.-en- Years was the Van Antwerp copy.
r-ich Dr Rosenbach bought In 1907 for
t9n,o and sold for something more than
saun The latter copy was three-eighths
~ ~ inch less in height and one-eighth Of
an inch less n breadth than the Hoe COPY.
and vas one OF the reasons for expecting
that -be prices last evening would soar to
t-kno0.- heights.
Tor the second folio. the largest COPY on
record NJ Smith paid $50 The third
folio IN which appear many manuscript
corrections IN no handwriting. one OF
re seventeenth and the other Of the eisn-
-een,h century evidently written for an a.
10y. cost him 500 after a bidding contest
ui-h ". J Wallace collector. Of this city.
This folio IS said ~ have cost Mr.. Hoe over
$500 The fourth folio. COPY Of the
The most expansive Of the ouavtos was a
conv Of the third edition of Hamlet.
printed a. London IN 1871 for John Smeth-
uicke r. vas considered 10 he worth g. 30
-scause ot the brown morocco binding put
~ by Cobder-sanderson and an autograph
letter by him dated ls21 and referring 70
t1s volume The History Of Henrie the
fourth With the humorous conceites Of STR
Jo77 F7lerafe NTH edition cost Mr
Smith z05'o second edition OF King
John went 70 NJ Quaritch for 2o75. and
r second COTTON ~ tre Midsummer Nights
Dream 70 Walter VI IiiU for $500 Mr.
XII also purchased The first collected ed
-or ~ he rooms written bv VII Shake
spea~e Gent" and printed IN ls40 for = So
Lonsfelo"'s "outre-mer" sod.
re volume II Iorzfellov's "Outre-Mer."
which 7-se NOT sod last Monday afternoon
tecsus- the autograph letter referring 20 e
could no. be found. was disposed OF last
rig7t - ST. HID Cor E.17s. the letter hsv-
* ose- found among some miscellaneous
rs7e-s .- ono - tNo -vo hundred boxes IN
re cellar - the Anderson Galleries
Tire -o'1f amount taken IN during the
evening vas SnS2c - bringing the grand
-o-s1 III ~ Ssse74 The total FOR The day
vss's-dav vas Ns S74 which exceeds three
other dave RI the sale
- +-e afternoon session an autoE-a70
ls--sr - Edgar Allan Foe brought what
vas eai6 nr Arthur Swami. the chief cata-
ioEue~ 70 t-e Anderson Galleries. 10 nc the
Fnes' price ever raid Tor an American
letter. After p ro. Gz.t Vaced over It bv
erf O. = Helmsn. 81 this city. - finally
went 10 the lat,e- To- 500
~ is tho most remarkable letter over
written 70, Poe, said the purchaser. In
g are outlined his philosophical theories.
~hich ho later expanded and published
Under the title o. Eureka He asserted ir
tho letter that these theories would affect
ne whole future colrs, OF philosophy. and
added. y say this quietly but l say It,
So far as know. tho letter has never be-
-ore heen published o- sold. 7 am buying
IL for q New y ork collector, whose name
sr not A. liberty 70 reveal
Zoe also defended himself I'm the letter
s.ains. the ac .usations Of the EDITOR 81
'Tre Weekly Universe who had described
', habits ~ "shocSingly irregular" "Tro
fact is this the letter reads. MY habits
a'e vigorously abster1ious. and J omit moth
lr- - rho natural regimen requisite for
health. But this IS my private life
M -tud.ous and literary hfe-and ~
course. escsnes the eve of the world. The
ce-ire for society come, upon me only
when have become excited by drink.
Tlen only so-that is. at these times only
Iatc been ODD the practice Of going among
n- friends. VINO seldom. OF IN fact nevcI,