Printed books, illuminated and other manuscripts, autograph letters & historical documents
Publisher: Sotheby's
Published: 1925
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Notes: Comprising a selected portion of the library of the late P.A. Daniel, esq., the Shakespearian scholar, the property of Miss Eva Gilchrist; The property of Thomas Case, esq. (deceased), late president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, including Shakespeare, 2nd folio, 1632, with Hawkins imprint; Bacon, Instauratio magne, 1620, with Sir F. Bacon's stamp on binding; etc.; works of R.S. Surtees, in the original parts, the property of A.R. Robinson, esq., Blackwell House, Somerset; and other properties.  Collections of the works of W. Harrison Ainsworth, of Charles Lever, and of Captain Marryat; Lamb (C.) Book of the ranks and dignities, 1805; Audubon, Birds of America, 1827- 38; an important extra-illustrated copy of Boswell's Johnson; Milton, Of education, 1644; Chaucer, Canterbury tales, Caxton, 1484; Hortus vocabulorum, W. de Worde, 1518; Pedro de Alcala, Arte para saber la lengua arauiga, Grenada, 1505; also the Ehrenfeld codex of The legends of St. Francis, the property of the Ehrenfeld family.  The autograph letters include a fine letter of David Garrick, and a poem in the hand of Robert Burns, the property of Mrs. Farrant, 6, Sidney Place, S.W.; an interesting letter of R.L. Stevenson, the property of the late Frank Wood, esq., of Hopedene, Holmbury St. Mary, Surrey; manuscripts of Austin Dobson, G. Moore, W.H. Ainsworth, R.L. Stevenson; letters of Benjamin Franklin, W. Cowper, Lord Byron, W.M. Thackeray; documents signed by Napoleon I; papers of naval interest; etc.

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: Feb. 23-24, 1925.