Catalogue of a portion of the collection of manuscripts known as the "Appendix", made by the late Earl of Ashburnham, from whose printed catalogue the descriptions are taken ...
Subtitle: which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... the 1st day of May, 1899 ...
Contributors: Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878.; Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928.
Series: [Catalogues of sales ;; 1899 May 1]
Publisher: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Published: 1899
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878 -- Library -- Catalogs.; Private libraries -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.; Manuscripts -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
Notes: Imprint on t.p. reads: Dryden Press: J. Davy and Sons ... London. 1812.
The "Appendix" was bought from the Earl of Ashburnham in May 1897 by Henry Yates Thompson, who added about a fifth of the manuscripts to his own collection, and offered the others to the public in two sales (the portion here catalogued, and another portion of 19 lots May 11, 1901)
With: Catalogue of the magnificent collection of printed books, the property of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Ashburnham. London : Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1897-1898. Bound together subsequent to publication.