The J.E. Hodgkin collection, catalogue of the trade cards, book-plates, broadsides, &c : trade cards, admission and invitation tickets, French, German and English book-plates, broadsides, proclamations, ballads, news-sheets, pamphlets, &c. illustrative of English history, 1553-1797, German and other broadsides, 1480-1706, papal indulgences, &c. 1455-1816, and early English newspapers, 1623-1728. [ Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, auction catalogue, sale date: 27-28 April 1914 ].

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Yellow printed wrappers, small 4to, 27 cm, , 94 pp, 4 plates. 375 lots. Frank Herrmann comments on this sale in his 'Sotheby's -Portrait of an Auction House': "Hodgkin s marvellous sense of history came to the fore in the disposal of the trade cards, book plates, papal indulgences, news sheets and early newspapers. It seemed that every major event in England since Elizabeth I was chronicled here in one form or another; and the seventeenth century in particular was represented in great strength. The trade cards covered every conceivable occupation from bookseller to brick-moulder, from floor cloth maker to glass cutter, from indigo dealer to money changer, from profile painter to sago powder maker, from tallow chandler to whip maker - and all 375 lots of riveting social history went for a mere £1,630 in the two days. The Hodgkin sale was not a great success in terms of money taken but its memory lingered on for many years, for nothing quite like it came on to the market afterwards, and the material scattered among the London trade fed a host of interested collectors for several decades to come." Wrappers heavily duststained and with some edgewear, contents Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-58689

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