The splendid collection of historical and literary manuscripts formed by the late Oliver Kingsley Brooks, of Cleveland, sold by order of Mrs. Brooks; and the remaining portion of the library of the late George Manierre, of Chicago, sold by order of Mrs. Manierre
Subtitle: comprising autograph letters of manuscripts of Henry VIII, Elizabeth, Charles I, &c., Addison, Pope, Johnson, Garrick, Lamb, Browning, Fitzgerald, Robert Burns, and other famous English writers; presidents of the U.S., complete from Washington to Wilson, Hamilton, Burr, Franklin, Irving; also General Burgoyne's orderly book containing the articles odf surrender at Saratoga.  In addition there are rare first editions of Aldrich, Bryant, Clemens, Cooper, Dickens, Hawthorne, Kipling, Longfellow, Lowell, Stevenson, Emerson, and others, and fine original drawings by Thackeray ..., Beardsley, Rowlandson, Thomason, &c
Publisher: American Art Axssociation
Published: 1925
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 806 lots.

McKay, 8809

Place of sale: New York.

Dates of sale: March 18 and 19, 1925.