Books, autographs and manuscripts of extreme rarity from the library of Mrs. Luther S. Livingston of Cambridge, Mass., with a few important books from the library of the late Commodore E.C. Benedict of Greenwich, Conn., and other collections ...
Subtitle: to be sold by auction Monday, Tuesday evenings, March fifth, sixth [1923]
Publisher: Anderson Galleries
Published: 1923
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Notes: 526 lots.

"Sale number 1717."

"Association books of historical and literary interest and importance; fine bindings by the best French, English, and American craftsmen; first editions of eminent authors, including many presentation copies; original drawings and sketches of Cruikshank, Leech, Rowlandson; autograph manuscripts of Sir A. Conan Doyle, Sir James M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and William M. Thackeray; important autograph letter of Oliver Cromwell; a love letter by John Dryden; letters of Charles Lamb, one containing a poem to Cowper, and a superlative letter from Stevenson relating to "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."  Together with a copy on vellum of the "Kelmscott" Chaucer."

McKay, 8558

Place of sale: New York.

Dates of sale: March 5 and 6, 1923.