Mr. George Robins, has the pleasure most respectfully to announce to the nobility, lovers of the fine arts, and those who delight in objects of interest, and indeed to the public generally, that having sold "Plasnewydd," he is instructed by the executors of the Lady Eleanor Butler, and Miss Ponsonby, to offer for unreserved competition, at the domicile, so long hallowed as the abode of friendship, on Monday, the 13th day of August, 1832, and many succeeding days, at eleven for [that is, or?] twelve o'clock precisely, on each day, the following interesting and valuable property, appertaining to the residence, and which for extent, variety and novelty, forms a most brilliant assemblage, certainly unexample in the annals of auctions, it having been congregated by those highly talented ladies, the fair "Mistresses of Plasnewydd," during a series of 50 years, aided by their joint taste, and at considerable expense ...
Publisher: George Robins
Published: 1832
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Estate; Catalogs; Private libraries; Art; Private collections; House furnishings
Other titles: Llangollen, North Wales; Catalogue of Mr. George Robins' ... of the interesting and valuable property at Plasnewydd, in the vale of Llangollen ...
Notes: "The catalogues will be ready three weeks prior to the sale, and may be had at 3s. each, at the Villa; Phillips's Hotel and the King's Head, Llangollen; the Lion, Shrewsbury; the Owen Glendower, Corwen; the Great Hotel, at Bango; the Waterloo Hotel, Liverpool; the Hen and Chickens, Birmingham; York Hotel, Bath; of Mr. Guernon, Molesworth Street, Dublin, and at Mr. George Robins' offices, Covent Garden"--Page 2.

"... Including the appropriate furniture of the chateau, comprising a drawing room suite in curtains, glasses, centre, card, and occasional tables; ottomans, sofas, couches, chairs of various descriptions, yet in unison, whatnots, cheffioneers; the dining room is very complete; there are excellent dining tables, chairs, sideboard, writing tables and library chairs. A range of bookcases & many objects, elaborately carved in oak; a strong box of great antiquity, & carved; it was once the property of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York, the furniture of the bed chambers and offices is of a corresponding character; excellent table and bed linen, the equipments of the garden are of a very superior description; a variety of seats, curious Etruscan flower vases, garden implements, &c. A green house of great beauty, ornamented with painted and stained glass; an extensive collection of plates, dairy & brewing utensils; services of china and glass, in compete sets, for the table, the dejeuné, the dessert, &c. &c. Sideboard of plate comprising many rare chased antique items; dishes and covers, salvers, wiaters, tea and coffee equipages, candlesticks, liquor and cruet frames, sppons and fords; and a variety of useful articles for the sideboard & table ... [title continues onto page 2]."

Purchased in 2019 with the Endowment Fund for the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection.

Manuscript annotations of prices throughout in both pen and pencil; particularly in the sections on miscellanies and curiosities sold on day 6.

In prefab, 31 cm.
Table of contents: title: No. 1. Paintings, prints and drawings, in highly ornamented frames; title: No. 2. The wines; title: No. 3. Service of glass [and china]; title: No. 4. The collection of valuable prints [including prints in books]; title: No. 5. Trinkets, jewellery, &c.; title: No. 6. Collection of drawings; title: No. 7. Library of books; title: [No. 8. Miscellaneous]; title: No. 9. Curiosities, relics, and other interesting matters; title: No. 10. Table and bed linen; title: No. 11. The service of plate; title: No. 12. Furniture of the chateau; title: No. 13. The garden furniture.