Sothebys: AN EXTENSIVE LIBRARY OF GENERAL LITERATURE REMARKABLE FOR ITS EXCEPTIONALLY SOUND AND HANDSOME BINDINGS Removed from Arthington Hall, Nr. Leeds The Property of Lt.-Col. A. C. Sheepshanks AND OF A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK WITH SOME BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY OTHER 19th CENTURY ARTISTS & ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY "ALFRED CROWQUILL" The Property of Richard Maddocks, Esq., CROW,

Auction Details

Auction Date
October 29, 1951 - October 29, 1951
Page Size: 469 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
401 Jerrold (D.) Cakes and Ale

GBP - 5.50
402 Jerrold (Blanchard) The Life of George Cruikshank

1882

GBP - 9.50
403 Cruikshank Jubilee (The) of 1809

GBP - 6.50
404 La Motte Fouque (F. H. K.) Peter Schlemihl

1824

GBP - 3.00
405 [Lever (Chas.)] Arthur O'Leary Arthur O'Leary: his Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands

GBP - 4.50
406 Locker (F.) Poems

GBP - 3.00
407 George and Robert Cruikshank Lovers' Panorama (The)

GBP - 4.50
408 Mathews (Chas.) Entirely New Entertainment

GBP - 4.50
409 [Mayhew (The Brothers)] Whom To Marry and How to Get Married

[1847-48]

GBP - 6.50
410 edited by Thomas Roscoe Novelist's Library (The)

1831-33

GBP - 4.00
411 [Pettigrew (T. J.)] Lucien Greville

GBP - 1.50
412 [Smedley (F.)] Frank Fairlegh

1849-50

GBP - 16.00
413 Scott (Sir W.) Waverley Novels

1836-39

GBP - 1.50
414 Trusler (J.) Hogarth Moralized

GBP - 5.00
415 Universal Songster (The)

GBP - 5.50
416 Wight (J.) Mornings at Bow Street

GBP - 3.00
417 [Barker (M. H.)] Greenwich Hospital

1826

GBP - 8.50
418 Cohn (A. M.) George Cruikshank

1924

GBP - 4.00
419 Cruikshank (G.) The Bands in the Parks

GBP - 2.75
420 A'Beckett (G. A.) The Comic History of England

1846-48

GBP - 18.00
421 Adshead (J.) Prisons and Prisoners

1845

GBP - 1.50
422 Ainsworth (W. H.) Old Saint Paul's

GBP - 7.00
423 Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland

GBP - 15.00
424 Barnum (P. T.) The Life of

GBP - 3.50
425 Bewick (T.) Select Fables

GBP - 8.00
426 [Britton (J.)] The Pleasures of Human Life

1807

GBP - 3.00
427 [Combe (W.)] The Tour[s] of Doctor Syntax

1823

GBP - 7.00
428 Daniel (G.) Merrie England in the Olden Time

GBP - 3.50
429 Dickens (Chas.) A Christmas Carol

GBP - 8.00
430 Dickens (Chas.) [The Christmas Books]

1843-48

GBP - 4.50
431 Dickens (Chas.) Bleak House

GBP - 7.00
432 Dickens (Chas.) [Christmas Numbers of "All the Year Round" and "Household Words"]

1850-67

GBP - 1.00
433 Dickens (Chas.) David Copperfield FIRST EDITION

GBP - 3.50
434 Dickens (Chas.) Great Expectations

GBP - 19.00
435 Dickens (Chas.) Little Dorrit

GBP - 4.50
436 Dickens (Chas.) Martin Chuzzlewit

GBP - 3.25
437 Dickens (Chas.) Nicholas Nickleby FIRST EDITION

1839

GBP - 0.75
438 Dickens (Chas.) Our Mutual Friend

GBP - 4.00
439 Egan (Pierce) The Show Folks!

GBP - 5.00
440 [Forrester (A. H.)] Absurdities in Prose and Verse

1827

GBP - 4.50
441 [Forrester (A. H.)] "Alfred Crowquill"

GBP - 5.50
442 [Forrester (A. H.)] "Alfred Crowquill"

GBP - 5.50
443 Forster (J.) The Life of Charles Dickens

GBP - 3.00
444 Gay (J.) Poems on Several Occasions

1731

GBP - 2.00
445 Hood (T.) Whims and Oddities

GBP - 4.50
446 [James (G. P. R.)] The Commissioner

GBP - 3.00
447 La Fontaine (J. de) Tales

1814

GBP - 8.50
448 Lever (Chas.) Charles O'Malley The Irish Dragoon

GBP - 1.75
449 Mayhew (The Brothers) Acting Charades

GBP - 4.00
450 Real Life in London

1827-29

GBP - 5.00
451 Reynolds (G. W. M.) Pickwick Abroad

GBP - 3.50
452 Rossetti (C. G.) A Pageant and Other Poems

GBP - 6.00
453 Smith (A.) The Pottleton Legacy

GBP - 3.25
454 Smith (Albert) The Wassail-Bowl

GBP - 3.25
455 [Strange (R., Jesuit)] The Life and Gests of S. Thomas Cantilupe

GBP - 10.00
456 [Surtees (R. S.)] "Plain or Ringlets?"

1860

GBP - 3.50
457 Thomas (H. S.) The Rod in India

GBP - 12.00
458 Woodward (G. M.) An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting

1808

GBP - 3.00
459 Bindings

GBP - 13.00
460 [Forrester (A. H.)] "Alfred Crowquill"

GBP - 4.00
461 [Forrester (A. H.)] "Alfred Crowquill"

GBP - 4.50
462 [Forrester (A. H.)] "Alfred Crowquill"

1850

GBP - 3.25
463 [Forrester (A. H.)] "Alfred Crowquill"

GBP - 5.00
464 [Forrester (A. H.)] Pantomime (The)

GBP - 7.00
465 [FORRESTER (A. H.)] Two Albums containing over 200 original pen-and-ink and water-colour drawings

GBP - 20.00
466 Forrester (A. H.) Three Albums containing-drawings

GBP - 13.00
467 Forrester (C. R.) My Literary Progress

1838

GBP - 6.00
468 Miscellaneous Prints and Drawings

GBP - 4.50
469 Philipen (Ch.) [Eighteen (only) coloured prints of feminine costumes]

1830

GBP - 8.00
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