Valuable books, manuscripts and autograph letters
1918
72 p., 4 plates : Sale code: Faunus Priced Place of sale: London Dates of sale: June 3-5, 1918 Comprising the property of the late John Linnell, esq. of Redstone, Redhill (sold by order of the trustees); the property of Mrs. Wight-Boycott, of Rudge Hall, Pattingham, Wolverhampton; the property of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Herbert Chermside, G.C.M.G. of Pepper Arden, Northallerton, including a magnificent series of fine autograph manuscripts of Lord Byron, from Newstead Abbey; the property of the late Col. Alexander Ewing, of Tartowie, Aberdeen, consisting of interesting and valuable Byron relics, autograph mss. etc.; the property of the late Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, esq. (sold by order of the executors), comprisng a fine series of autograph manuscripts of Algernon Charles Swinburne; the property of Mrs. Gooch, 78, Carlisle Mansions, Victoria, S.W., consisting of a large collection by or to Admiral Sir Charles Napier; and valuable autograph letters, the properties of Lieut. Lord Vernon, R.N., Capt. E.B. Spencer-Churchill, Miss Mary Boyle, F.P. Aston, esq., A.L. Stephen, esq. And other properties, including early Arabic and Persian manuscripts from famous libraries of Persia, Khorassan and Baghdad; Fine illuminated French and Italian manuscripts and Spanish documents; interesting autograph letters of Thackeray, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Nelson, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, George Meredith, Charles Lamb, etc., etc
