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Catalogue of valuable printed books, illuminated manuscripts, autograph letters and historical documents, comprising the important collection of the writings of Charles Dickens, including an exceedingly fine set of the Pickwick papers, formed by the late E. H. Cox, Esq., of Stourbridge, Worcestershire, and sold by order of the Executrix; a remarkable series of the writings of Joseph Conrad, the majority inscribed or annotated by the author, the property of the late James B. Pinker, Esq.; works on botany and natural history, the property of Sir Anselm Guise, Bt., Elmore Court, Gloucester; a selection from the library at Cresswell Hall, Morpeth, including Audubon, Birds of America, 1825-38; a series of first editions of P. B. Shelley; the Kilmarnock Edition of Burns' poems, 1786; an important XIV century antiphonal and other musical manuscripts ; an exceptionnally fine XV century Horae; very fine decorated Persian manuscripts, etc., the autograph letters, &c., include the autograph manuscripts of Holy Willie's Prayer, and other remarkable specimens of Robert Burns; Napoleonic relics, formerly the property of Sir Gideon Gorrequer, K. H.; important letters of William Penn and John Dryden ; autograph manuscripts of George Meredith, A. C. Swinburne, R. L. Stevenson and Marie Corelli; and a portion of a letter from Byron to Shelley, mentioning the death of Keats, which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, the Rt. Hon. Sir Montague Barlow, P.C., K.B.E., M.P., G. D. Hobson, M.V.O. & F. W. Warre, O.B.E., M.C., C. G. Des Graz, B.A., Miss E. Barlow, auctioneers of literary property & works illustrative of the fine arts, at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond Street, W. (1), on Monday, 15th of December, 1924, & two following days, at one o'clock precisely

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