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Catalogue of rare printed books, illuminated Mss. and miniatures, valuable autograph letters and literary and historical documents, comprising presentation copies of Dickens' Barnaby Rudge, 1841; Dodgson's Game of Logic, 1887 (dedication copy); Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898; Bligh's Narrative of the Mutiny on H.M.S. Bounty; Kingsley's The Water Babies; Wordsworth's Poems, 1815, and Poetical Works, 1827; etc., fine collections of the novels in first editions of Captain Marryat, mostly in original boards; of W. H. Ainsworth, uniformly bound in blue morocco; and of Charles Dickens, in dark olive morocco; first editions of Leibnitz, Sterne, Smollett, Defoe, Fielding, Coryat's Crudities, etc., a fine XIII century Anglo-Norman legal manuscript; a few fine decorative leather bindings, XIV-XVIII cent.; and a magnificent James I needlework binding, the property of A. Brome Wilson, Esq.; a series of rare or unrecorded English statutes, printed by Pynson and Berthelet, with other interesting books, selected from the library at Brougham Hall, Penrith, the property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Brougham and Vaux; autograph letters, etc. include Southey, Wordsworth, Moussorgsky, Arnold Bennett, Shaw, Byron, Disraeli, Carlyle, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Napoleon; exceedingly fine autograph Mss. of Robert Burns, including his song: "O my love is like the red red rose," and two other important poems apparently unpublished, the property of the late Mrs. Agnes Harriott Dunlop; and other properties, which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. (G. D. Hobson, M.V.O., F. W. Warre, O.B.E., M.C., C. G. Des Graz, B.A., Miss E. Barlow, C. V. Pilkington, B.A.), auctioneers of literary property & works illustrative of the Fine Arts, at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond Street, W. (1), on Monday, 21st of March, 1932, and following day, at one o'clock precisely

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