New-York tribune., 1920-03-21
w alIace Art
Collection on.
Sale Tomorrow
First Editions and Many
Rare Objects Gathered
From All Quarters of
Globe in the Offering
5000 Volumes Included
Etchings and Engravings
by Whistler and REM
brandt Are ON Display

The sale at auction Of the library
and collections of Walter Thomas
Wallace, including many first editions
and rare objects of art collected from
every quarter of the earth, which will
begin at o'clock tomorrow afternoon
and continue, with evening sessions.
through Saturday. is of great interest
to New York book lovers and collectors
of valuable art pieces. The sale is to
be held in the American Art Galleries,
Madison Square South.
Passing through the four galleries
there are found stored more than 5000
volumes covering range beginning
with the dawn of printing in England
and coming down to the present time,
and etchings and engravings by
Whistler snd Rembrandt and others,
and antiques of early Egyptian, Japan
ese and Greek periods.
The interest of the average person
attending the exhibition centers upon
American work. American authors.
American writings. The collection of
first editions cf American authors is,
according to the gallery authorities,
the most important ever offered for
sale.
Bryant Collection Rare
TIE Bryant collection contains "The
Embargo" lS0s, one of the very rarest
of American first editions. In Emer-
son, Holmes and Thoreau there are wide
ranges. with subjects quite equalling
their Importance in age and rarity
One of the most complete collections of
works ever brought together is that
of Longfellow. and close beside it
collection is Times Portraiture"
(broadside), of which only three are
known to exist the original autograph
manuscript, and its first publication
in book form. Peter Parley's Univer-
sal History" 1887, now extremely rare
and many others are in this collec-
ton.
In the careful selection of the works
Of Foe, including everything practical
ly excepting the first edition of "Tam-
erlane" and "The Murders of the Rue
Morgue," The Al Aaraaf," 1929, which
followed "Tamerlane," the owner again
mas shown he has the real spirit of
American readers at heart, and again
Ia his set of Whittier, which is excep-
tionaily complete, containing the rare
items. including "Mol Pitcher" 1882.
and "Mogg Megone," 1895.
The First Editions
Among ~ first editions of James
Russell Lowell there is the poets own
copy of "A Years Life" l84i. with his
autographs; "The Fable for Critics"
which is the first issue of the first
edition, with the inscription: with
the kindest Regards of j. R. L.; the
printers proof of the address DE
CNrf1NU al
England, with corrections and changes
IN tAe authors own handwriting.
Goldsmith work of great interest
IS his "Ihrenodia Augustalis," written
in honor of her late royal highness
the Princess Dowager of Wales.
Lamb collectors will find fountain
Of interest in this collection, as the
long lost Poetry for Children" by
Charles and Mary Lamb, found after
mitted to the country of its birth and
publication, is there.
English Literary Works
Old works of English literature, in
Guiding the Four Folios of Shakes
there, and Julius Caesar" 1880; "King
Lear 1908; paradise Lost" 1907;
"Montaignes Essays" 1903.
The eighteenth and nineteenth cen
turies are represented by such work as
Gays Fables" 1727-1738; Robert
Browning's Pauline" in the original
boards with label, 1888; Dickens's
"Pickwick Papers," in the original
parts, and many others
Among the manuscripts to be sold
are copies of "Biblia Latina" of the
thirteenth century and "Hymni Latini
cum Passionibus" of the fifteenth GEN.
tury, in Clovis Eve binding
On Friday evening and Saturday
afternoon the sale of the etchings and
sngravings and antiques will be held.