Valuable books and autograph letters; with historical documents relating to America; from the library and muniment room at Blenheim palace, Woodstock, the property of his grace the duke of Marlborough
Publisher: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Published: 1920
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: Art collections
Notes: Sale code: Rifle.

Including books in very elaborately inlaid morocco bindings by the most eminent Parisian craftsmen of the XIXth century, with other fine bindings of earlier periods.  Books with coloured plates--Persian and Indo-Persian drawings--XVIIIth century French illustrated books--books from the library of Robert Browning--first editions of works by the Bront©±s and Rudyard Kipling-- autograph letters of Charlotte Bront©±, Daniel Defoe, Sir Richard Steele, etc.--charters relating to St. Albans, 1248-1606, and an important series of letters and manuscripts of American interest, chiefly addressed to Charles Spencer, third earl of Sunderland, and relating to expeditions projected against Canada and Nova Scotia, 1708-9; also books from the Rowfant library, including a number of presentation copies of books illustrated by Kate Greenaway.  Books in fine bindings, collected editions of modern English authors, etc., the property of Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill; works by Restif de la Bretonne, and other important French illustrated books of the XVIIIth century--works by William Combe and other English books with coloured plates, etc., the property of Edward L. Tomlin, esq., D.L., J.P., Angley Park, Cranbrook, Kent.

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: July 1-2, 1920.