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Catalogue of valuable printed books, illuminated and other manuscripts and autograph letters. The books comprise publications of the Doves press, many printed on vellum, the property of the late T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, Esq.; productions of the Kelmscott press, the property of the late Howard H. Thomson, Esq., F.R.I.B.A.; books in fine old bindings, the property of the late Earl of Haddington, K.T.; Robert Burns, Poems, Kilmarnock edition, 1786, the property of W. Sheepshanks, Esq.; R. L. Stevenson, The Charity Bazar, 1868, the property of Miss M. Moyes Black; drawings by W. M. Thackeray, the property of Mrs. Charles H. E. Brookfield; books with coloured plates, the property of a gentleman; Shakespeare, Works, first folio edition, 1623, the property of F. F. Urquhart, Esq.; and one of the excessively rare harmonies of Little Gidding, the property of the late Mrs. Selina Gaussen; also English literature; sporting books; Americana; a collection of miniatures cut from illuminated manuscripts; incunabula; French XVIII century illustrated books; a portrait in oils of Robert Burns by Nasmith; decorated Horæ; Italian antiphonaries, etc. The autograph letters, etc., comprise the Bowes family papers, the property of the Earl of Strathmore; letters from Charlotte Brontë to Amelia Ringrose, and from J. A. M. Whistler to Mr. Marcus B. Huish; an autograph poem by Oscar Wilde; letters and manuscripts of famous musicians; a document signed by Edward Alleyn, 1626; 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, 26th of March, 1923, and two following days, at one o'clock precisely

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