Catalogue of valuable books
Subtitle: chiefly by celebrated English writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ...
By: which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... on Monday, 4th of April, 1921 and two following days.
Contributors: Martindell, E. W.; Croom-Johnson, Norman, former owner.; Colt Kipling Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Dryden Press, J. Davy & Sons
Published: 1921
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Martindell, E. W. -- Library -- Catalogs; Kipling, Rudyard, -- 1865-1936 -- Bibliography -- Catalogs; Stevenson, Robert Louis, -- 1850-1894 -- Bibliography -- Catalogs; Catalogs, Booksellers' -- England -- London; Private libraries -- England -- London -- Catalogs; English literature -- First editions -- Bibliography -- Catalogs; Rare books -- England -- Bibliography -- Catalogs
Genres: Catalogs.; Bibliography
Notes: "Including a remarkable and comprehensive collection of the writings of Rudyard Kipling, the property of Capt. E.W. Martindell; interesting books and autograph letters, from the library of the late W.M. Rossetti, Esq. the property of Mrs. Helen Rossetti Angeli; an extensive collection of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, first editions of Harrison Ainsworth, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, George Gissing, J.S. Le Fanu, Lord Lytton, George Moore, Charles Read, Anthony Trollope, G.J. Whyte Melville, etc., the property of R.H. Leon, Esq.; books by and about James McNeill Whistler, the property of the late William Heinemann, Esq., sold by order of his executors; books written or illustrated by Walter Crane, original manuscripts, drawings, etc., the property of Lionel F. Crane, Esq.; presentation copies of works by Algernon Charles Swinburne, the property of Herbert W. Mason, Esq., nephew of the late Theodore Watt-Dunton; and P.B. Shelley's autograph manuscript of his prose work: 'A philosophical view of reform,' the property of Mrs. T.W. Rolleston; with first editions of books by Jospeh Conrad; works printed at modern private presses, etc.

729 lots.

LC copy part of the gift of Mrs. H. Dunscombe Colt, 1984-1987. Handwritten annotations of sale prices and notes in margins. Newspaper clipping from the March 6, 1921 "Observer" with notice of rare Kipling books and Shelley manuscript for sale laid in.