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Catalogue of valuable illuminated manuscripts, printed books and autograph letters, the books and manuscripts comprise a collection of the works of Charles Dickens, in original parts, the property of R. H. Leon, Esq.; an extensive series of the works of R. L. Stevenson, the property of Austen Walker, Esq.; a collection of broadside proclamations of King Charles I, many unique, the property of Major G. Wentworth; important contemporary pamphlets relating to the Civil War, the property of Colonel John Harvey; a series of fine illuminated miniatures, the property of Mrs. Simpson Rostron; important Wycliffite manuscripts, the property of the Baroness Lucas; Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, first edition, 1678; Shakespeare, first folio, 1623; books with coloured plates; fine bindings; important French illustrated works of the XVIII century; first editions of P. B. Shelley and W. M. Thackeray, etc., the autograph letters comprise the property of the late Richard Bagot, Esq., the property of the late Michael Tomkinson, Esq., and include a letter from Shelley referring to "the necessity of atheism"; a letter from Sterne mentioning "Tristam Shandy"; the original of Canning's famous "rhyming despatch"; two letters from George Washington, etc., etc., which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (Sir Montague Barlow, K.B.E., LL.D., M.P., G. D. Hobson, M.A. & Major F. W. Warre, O.B.E., M.C.), auctioneers of literary property & works illustrative of the fine arts, at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond Street, W. (1), on Monday, June 19th, 1922, and two following days, at one o'clock precisely

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