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Cover of 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.

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.

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Cover of Catalogue of rare and valuable printed books and choice illuminated and other manuscripts, sacred and secular, autograph letters and modern historical and literary documents, editiones principes and first editions of modern authors, very fine illuminated books of hours, missals, breviaries, bibles, private prayer books, early metrical romances, historical and ecclesiastical writings; productions of the early English press, collections relating to fairs and other pleasure resorts, publications of the Kelmscott and other presses. First editions of Shelley and C. Lamb, the three original Voyages of Frobisher; original drawings from Holbein’s portraits, done for Chamberlaine’s edition, 1780-1790; King Glumpus and the Exquisites, illustrated by Thackeray; autograph manuscripts of Robert Burns, and many other rare and valuable books and manuscripts.

Catalogue of rare and valuable printed books and choice illuminated and other manuscripts, sacred and secular, autograph letters and modern historical and literary documents, editiones principes and first editions of modern authors, very fine illuminated books of hours, missals, breviaries, bibles, private prayer books, early metrical romances, historical and ecclesiastical writings; productions of the early English press, collections relating to fairs and other pleasure resorts, publications of the Kelmscott and other presses. First editions of Shelley and C. Lamb, the three original Voyages of Frobisher; original drawings from Holbein’s portraits, done for Chamberlaine’s edition, 1780-1790; King Glumpus and the Exquisites, illustrated by Thackeray; autograph manuscripts of Robert Burns, and many other rare and valuable books and manuscripts.

Wilkinson and Hodge Sotheby