Catalogue of valuable printed books and important illuminated and other manuscripts ...
Subtitle: which will be sold by auction ... on Thursday, the 4th of March, 1920, and following day
Publisher: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Published: 1920
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
Subjects: Art collections
Notes: 556 lots.

Sale code: Paros.

" ... comprising the property of the estate of the late W. de Rodes, Esq. including fine books with coloured plates; a large collection of caricatures by Gillray, Bunbury, the Cruikshanks, Rowlandson, &c.  Books illustrated by Kate Greenaway, the property of T.F. Barratt, Esq.  Productions of the Kelmscott, Vale, Doves and other modern private presses, the property of Capt. Charles Home MacCall, C.B.E., and the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, deceased.  Books from the Rowfant library, including presentation copies of works of Matthew Arnold, Browning, Dickens, William Morris, D.G. Rossetti, Swinburne, Thackeray, &c. Early editions of Robinson Crusoe, the property of the late Dr. W. Laidlaw Purves.  Vincent de Beauvais, The myrrour of the worlde, printed by W. Caxton, the property of Sir Richard A.S. Paget, Bt.  And other properties, including European and oriental illuminated manuscripts; a collection of books in fine bindings; early printed books; Shakespeare's Poems 1640, Taming of the shrew 1631, portraits and other important Shakespeareana; plays by the dramatists of the restoration period, from the Kemble-Devonshire collection; an indenture signed by William Davenant, relating to his theatre; a collection of books by John Bunyan."

Date of sale: Mar. 4-5, 1920.

Place of sale: London.