Catalogue of the interesting and valuable collection of autograph letters, manuscripts & historical documents, of the late John Dillon, Esq
Subtitle: including English and foreign royal personages, nobility & gentry ... : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, auctioneers of literary property and works illustrative of the fine arts, at their house, no. 13, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C. on Thursday, the 10th day of June, 1869, and four following days ...
Contributors: Dillon, John, Esq
Published: 1869
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Catalogs; English Manuscripts; Private collections; Library; Manuscripts
Other titles: Catalogue of the valuable collection of autograph letters & manuscripts of the late John Dillon, Esq.; Dillon collection
Notes: " ... reformers, martyrs & dignitaries of the church, military and naval commanders, and remarkable persons in public life, historians, philosophers, authors, poets, dramatists, actors, and men of eminence in science and art, among which may be mentioned a remarkable collection relating to the poet Burns, original autograph poems of Lord Byron; three remarkable holograph letters of Oliver Cromwell; Queen Elizabeth's correspondence with Dr. Dale on the Anjou marriage; Ebelyn's Life of Mrs. Godophin, in the original manuscript; Johnson's original manuscript of The Life of Pope, and a highly interesting collection relating to him; original manuscripts & music of Tom Moore, and important collections relating to Lord Nelson, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strattford, &c. &c."

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Date of sale: June 10-14, 1869.

Place of sale: London.

Library's copy is large paper copy; annotated with prices and names in brown ink within ruling in red ink. Photograph portrait on verso of second front flyleaf; recto of same signed in pencil: M. M. Holloway. Former library label of M. Knoedler & Co. on front pastedown. Binding: marbled papers over boards, half brown morocco, gilt ruling and spine title: Dillon collection. Former library mark "32" on label on top board.

Library's copy is the third catalog bound in a volume of four catalogs with: Christie, Manson & Woods. Catalogue of the very choice collection of water-colour drawings and pictures of John Dillon, Esq., deceased. [London] : [Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods], [1869] (171457242)