Shakespeariana
Subtitle: a catalogue of the valuable and select library of a gentleman, consisting chiefly of works in dramatic poetry, and miscellaneous literature: comprising valuable editions of the works of Shakespeare, including the ... which will be sold by auction by Mr. Wheatley, at his great room, 191, Piccadilly, on Thursday, May 25th, 1837, and three following days, (Sunday excepted), at one o'clock each day
Contributors: Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; Wheatley, Benjamin, publisher, auctioneer; Norman, G., printer
Published: 1837
Language: eng
Subjects: Auction catalogs; Book auctions; Catalogs
Other titles: Auction catalogues 1837.
Notes: Spine title: Auction catalogs 1837.

In English.

First word of title transposed from head of title page.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound with: Catalogue of a valuable collection of books, the property of a gentleman, comprising, a rare selection of works printed during the fifteenth century ... / S. Leigh Sotheby & Co. 1837.

Thomas Pennant Barton; May 1873.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy is included within a "bound-with" volume of various auction catalogs dating from 1837. Bound-with volume is half-bound in brown paper over boards and vellum. Spine includes a circular label at head reading "1974", and has spine title and table of contents in script (black ink). Front pastedown includes ex libris (bookplate) of the Barton Library, noting that the volume was received by the Boston Public Library in May, 1873, and listing both accessions and shelf number. Leaf opposite front pastedown includes handwritten table of contents, and an annotation at head-/fore-edge of leaf indicating volume "[f]rom Dawson Turner Collection".