A Catalogue of Valuable, Standard, and Miscellaneous Books including a Selection from the Library of a Gentleman removed from Emperor s Gate, S.W. and other Properties. [ Hodgson & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 12-15 October 1909 ].

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Printed wrappers, 8vo 71 pp. 1311 lots. the sale comprised: "Cussans History of Hertfordshire, 3 vols - Ormerod s Cheshire, 3 vols, Large Paper. Nayler's Coronation of George IV. - Foster s The Stuarts, 2 vols - Bradford s Costume of Portugal and Spain, Large Paper, and other Folio Topographical and Antiquarian Books, and Books with Coloured Plates. A Set of the Henry Bradshaw Society, 36 vols, original cloth, 1891-1909 - Alcuin Club Collections, 1897-1908 - Camden Society s Publications, 122 vols, 1838-1909. An extensive collection of standard historical works including the writings of Gibbon, Grote, Hallam, Motley, Helps, Hook, Rawlinson, Freeman, Gardiner, Froude, Green, Lecky, Brewer, Guizot, Duruy and others - also Foreign Classical Authors - A Set of Valpy s Delphin Classics, 141 vols, Large Paper - Modern Theological Works - Books on Spiritualism and Psychology. an interesting volume of Seventeenth-Century Tracts on Currency. Eden s State of the Poor, 3 vols - Tooke and Newmarch s History of Prices, the rare Fifth and Sixth Volumes - Lord Overstone s Tracts, 2 vols, and other Works on Political Economy. Scientific and Natural History Books and Books of Travel. A Set of the Bengal Monthly Sporting Magazine, (38 vols, 1833-52). Old Sets of Shakespeare, Bacon, Locke, Fielding, Smollett, Johnson, Burns, and others - The Original Library Edition of Thackeray, 22 vols, cloth - Gadshill Edition of Dickens, 34 vols - Sets of Scott, Matthew Arnold, Eugene Sue, Edgeworth, Bronte, &c. - First Editions of Jane Austen - The Kelmscott Press Shakespeare - Stanley s Poems and Translations, 1650, and a few other Books in Old English Literature - A Specimen of Fore-Edge Painting. A Selection of Recent Novels by Popular Authors and Modern Works in all Departments of Literature." Ink no. and pencil signature of W.G.Jenks (bookseller) on front wrapper, wrappers slightly browned, staples rusted, a few notes or marks to contents and rear blank leaf entirely filled with various manuscript arrangements of Jenks name and address (14 Acre Road, Merton, London SW19).otherwise Near Very Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-60544

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