Catalogue of valuable printed books, illuminated and other manuscripts, autograph letters, topographical drawings of American interest, etc.
Subtitle: comprising, the library of Sir Algernon Methuen, Bt. (decd.) ... including: the magnificent Butts-Crewe copy of Songs of innocence and experience (the second largest known, and the only one with tinted wash borders); the famous copy of Young's Night thoughts coloured throughout by Blake, also from the Butts-Crewe collections; very fine copies of Thel and Visions of the daughters of Albion ... which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond Street, W. ... on Monday, the 17th of February, 1936, and two following days at one o'clock precisely.
Contributors: Methuen, Algernon, d. 1936.
Series: Blake -- no. 46
Publisher: Printed by Kitchen & Barratt
Published: 1936
Place of publication: [London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Methuen, Algernon, -- d. 1936 -- Library -- Catalogs; Blake, William, -- 1757-1827 -- Bibliography; Rare books -- Catalogs; Catalogs, Booksellers' -- Great Britain
Genres: Catalogs; Bibliography
Notes: "On view at least two days previous. Catalogues may be had.  Illustrated catalogue (2 plates in colour, 15 in monochrome)".

Lots 498-516, 529-530 are important Blake works with illustrated plates (2 col.).  Lots 519-522 & 575 are Coleridge items.

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.