A Catalogue of Rare & Valuable Books [ Hodgson & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 24 April 1929 ].

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Printed wrappers, 4to, 20 pp. 355 lots. The highlights noted were the following: "First Editions of Johnson's Dictionary, 2 vols, 1755, Smollet's Sir Launcelot Greaves, 2 vols, 1762, Poems by Coleridge, Lamb and Lloyd, 1797, Coleridge'sBiographia Literaria, 2 vols, boards, uncut,with a Copy of Sidney's Arcadia, with Notes by Coleridge, Shelley's Masque of Anarchy, 1832, Presentation Copy from Leigh Hunt, with the Collected Edition of 1839 4 vols - Landor*s Idyllia Heroica Decern, boards, uncut, 1820, and Gebir, 1831, etc. 3 vols, ail Presentation Copies - Original MSS. by Branwell Bronte and Richard Jefferies. First Edition of Galsworthy's Man of Property. First Editions of Shaw's Cashel Byron's Profession, 1885, Widowers' Houses, 1893, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, 2 vols, 1898, an Autograph Presentation Copy of Three Plays for Puritans, 1901, etc., with an Interesting Series of Autograph Letters, Butler's Way of All Flesh, 1903, De la Mare's Songs of Childhood, 1902, The Listeners, 1912 with a Proof Copy, 1911 - Fine Books from the Ashendene, Kelmscott and other Presses - The Julian Edition of Shelley - First Collected Edition of Conrad, etc, .First Editions, Autographed Copies, Etchings, etc., given for Sale in support of The Lord Mayor's Fund for The Distressed Mining Areas including A Fifteenth MS. Horae on Vellum - Leigh Hunt's Imagination and Fancy, with a leaf of MS. - Scott's Rob Roy, First Edition, 3 vols, original boards, with A.L.s - Interesting Autograph Letters from Wordsworth, Browning, Swinburne, Meredith, etc. - Hardy's Wessex Poems, with A.L.s., and other First Editions or Signed Copies of George Moore, John Drinkwater, Gordon Bottomley, Siegfried Sassoon, etc. - Original MS. Poems by Waiter de la Mare and Shane Leslie, and a Short Story by Arnold Bennett - W. Rothenstein's Portrait Drawings, with an Original Portrait of Bernard Shaw - also an Original Oil Painting by Sir George Clausen - Etchings by Malcolm Osborne, A. M. Hind, and others - Original Caricature by Max Beerbohrn, and Woodcuts by Gordon Craig." Wrappers somewhat duststained and nearly detached from textblock, staples rusted, a few corners folded, contents otherwise Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-59021

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