A catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased
Subtitle: which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786, and the thirty-seven following days ... at her late dwelling-house, in Privy-garden, Whitehall : by order of the acting executrix
Contributors: Lightfoot, John, 1735-1788, complier
Published: 1786
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Catalogs; Mollusks; Catalogs and collections; Zoological specimens; Early works to 1800; Art collections; Art objects; Natural history collections; Natural history
Notes: Compiled by John Lightfoot (see John Nichols. Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century, 1812; vol. 3, p. 670 notes).

Etched frontispiece plate signed: Burney delt.; Grignion sculpt. Executed under the direction of J. Bell, book-seller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, London April 8th 1786.

At foot of title page: "No."; the copy number of the catalog was inserted in manuscript.; a variant is without "No." at the foot of the title page.

Signatures: [pi]⁴ A-2A⁴.

English short title catalogue, T28783

Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 4028

Date of auction: April 24, 1786-June 8, 1786.

Place of auction: London.

Library's copy 1 cut short in binding with result that some page numbers have been cut away; pagination statement from ESTC.

Library's copy 1 has bound in after title page: pages i-iii of an unrelated catalog for an 1822 auction of the effects of Fonthill Abbey.

Library's copy 1 is numbered no. 1165 on title page; has a few lots marked with check-marks or asterisks in brown ink; annotated with a few later notes in pencil. Signed in ink on recto of front free endpaper: Charles Robert Thatcher, Febr. 4th 1828. 28 North Street, Brighton; followed by addition in later hand, "died at Brighton--bought at the sale on the Kings Road - H.W.D. The sale remarkable for the [3 lines illegible and partly obscured by tape repair of binding] --China re-marked & coloured." Signed in ink on front pastedown: Hugh W. Diamond, Twickenham House, Middlx, Apr 1889; stamped in blue ink: Geo. R. Harding.

Library's copy 1, binding: worn red marbled papers over boards, half worn black leather; binder's title: Portland Museum & Fonthill Abbey.