Catalogue of a Collection of Books, &c. from the Library of G. B. Anderson, Esq. of Selkirk, [ Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, auction catalogue, sale date: 2 May 1892 ].

Published by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 2nd May 1892, 1892

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Disbound from a collected volume (original wrappers - if any - not retained), top edge gilt, 8vo, 29 pp. 269 lots. The sale was described as comprising: "Important and Standard Works in various Classes of Literature; a remarkable series of the original editions of the works of Dickens & Thackeray, including a fine copy of 'Flore et Zephyr,' by Thackeray; Bewick’s Birds and Quadrupeds, and other choice copies of his works; Books illustrated by G. Cruikshank, Rowlandson, Leech, Caldecott & others ; also First Editions of The Ingoldsby Legends ; Comic History of England and Rome. Grimm’s German Popular Stories ; Cruikshank’s Comic Almanack ; Ruskin’s 'Modern Painters, Stones of Venice, and Seven Lamps of Architecture ; Surtees’ Works, 6 vols. ; Stirling-Maxwell’s Artists of Spain. A remarkably fine copy of Tennyson’s Poems by Two Brothers. Choice Series of Uzanne’s Popular Works. Scrope’s Art of Deer-Stalking and Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing. Prescott’s Works, edition de luxe. A fine Proof Copy of Rogers’ Poems, 1834. La Fontaine, Contes, 'Fermiers généraux edition. A. H. Bullen’s Reprints, &C. 7 vols, large paper. Fine Copies, mostly Bound by the most eminent English Binders, a few Autograph Letters, &c." Disbound from a collected volume, glued paper backstrip. Neatly priced in ink.

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Title
Catalogue of a Collection of Books, &c. from the Library of G. B. Anderson, Esq. of Selkirk, [ Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, auction catalogue, sale date: 2 May 1892 ].
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Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.
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Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 2nd May 1892
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1892
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