Catalogue of valuable books and manuscripts being the second and concluding portion of the library of the late P.M. Pittar, Esq. of 14, Cleveland Square, Hyde Park, W. (sold by order of the executors) ...
Subtitle: which will be sold by auction ... on Monday, Nov. 4th, 1918, and three following days
Publisher: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Published: 1918
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Art collections
Notes: 702 lots.

Sale code: Irishmen.

Priced.

" ... comprising finely illuminated liturgical and other manuscripts on vellum; rare early printed books, valuable manuscripts, autographs and historical documents of Beethoven, Geo. Borrow, the Bront©±s, Mrs. Browning, R. Burns, Byron, King Edward Vi., Queen Elizabeth, Handel, Wm. Morris, Napoleon I. and the Bonapartes, P.B. Shelley, A.C. Swinburne, Wm. Watson and others.  Numerous association books of the highest interest; rare Americana, including Lechford's Plain dealing, 1642.  First and other rare editions of famous writers, including Sir F. Bacon, Beaumont and Fletcher, Boccaccio, Mrs. Browning, J. Bunyan, R. Burns, Dante, C. Dickens, T. Hardy, G. Herbert, Dr. Johnson, Ben Johnson, J. Keats, C. Lamb, C. Marlow, Milton, Moli©·re, Alex. Pope, Shakespeare (including quarto plays), E. Spenser, R.L. Stevenson, Tennyson, W.M. Thackeray, W. Wordsworth, and many others.  Kelmscott and Dove Press publications; books printed on vellum; works with coloured plates by Rowlandson, Cruikshank, etc.; rare old playing cards; engravings by D©ơrer, Hollar, etc.  Needlework, tortoiseshell, silver-mounted and other fine bindings, including choice examples of the Mearnes,Nuns of Little Gidding, etc. and many fine specimens of modern craftsmen; books with painted fore-edges, and numerous other rarities."

Dates of sale given as Nov. 4th, 1918 & 3 ff. days.

Place of sale: London.

Dates of sale: Nov. 4-7, 1918.