Catalogue of valuable books and manuscripts comprising many very rare Elizabethean and Jacobean books and pamphlets mostly relating to Shakespeare, including the Life and Reign of Richard the Second, 1634; The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare and John Fletcher, 1634; King Edward III, 1599; first and early editions of the writings of Ben Jonson, Brathwaite, Barnaby Rich, Sir P. Sidney Milton, R. Greene, Wm. Browne, S. Marmion, Beaumont and Fletcher, Drydon, Lord Bacon, Massinger; the excessively rare first edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 1678; first editions of Boccaccio in English and Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy; a valuable manuscript volume containing transcripts of letters by Jonson, Bacon, Drake, George Chapman, and others; a portion of the original autograph manuscript of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe; rare works relating to America, including an important volume of official copies of letters of instruction written to Governors of American Colonies by General Hugh Conway, 1765-66; autograph letters of Queen Victoria, etc.; first and collected editions of modern English writers; a few ancient and rare books with woodcuts; publications of the Kelmscott and Vale Press; a fine XVth century antiphonale; rare French books including a fine La Fontaine, 1762, and Temple de Gnide, on large paper, with plates in three states; Izaak Walton's copy of John Hale's Eton Sermons; etc.
Wilkinson and Hodge Sotheby
