Sothebys: THE DISTINGUISHED LIBRARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY AND CRITICISM, The Property of the late Colonel C. H. Wilkinson, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., SECOND DAY'S SALE, 27Mar1961,

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 27, 1961 - March 27, 1961
Page Size: 746 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
553 Aberdeen Generall demands concerning the late Covenant

GBP - 10.00
554 Account (An) of the manner of taking the late Duke of Monmouth

GBP - 32.00
555 Adventures (The) of Abdalla ... sent by the Sultan of the Indies to make a discovery of the Island of Borico

1729

GBP - 22.00
556 Akenside Mark The pleasures of imagination

1743-5

GBP - 20.00
557 ALBANIA: a poem addressed to the genius of Scotland. Dedicated to General Wade.

1737

GBP - 28.00
558 Aleman Mattheo The Rogue: or the Life of Guzman de Alfarache.

1623

GBP - 17.00
559 Aleman Mattheo The Rogue or the Life of Guzman de Alfarache.

GBP - 34.00
560 Allingham William The Music Master, etc.

GBP - 4.00
561 Lord Hailes Ancient Scottish poems.

1794

GBP - 14.00
562 Anti-Jacobin (The); or, Weekly Examiner.

20 Nov. 1797-9 July

GBP - 10.00
563 Armstrong John Of benevolence, wanting half-title.

GBP - 6.00
564 B. T. The Rebellion of Naples.

1652

GBP - 16.00
565 J. W. Ebsworth Bagford Ballads

1878

GBP - 16.00
566 Bain F. W. An essence of the dusk.

GBP - 5.00
567 F. J. Furnivall Ballads from manuscripts.

1868-73

GBP - 18.00
568 Ballads A Collection of Old Ballads.

1723-25

GBP - 19.00
569 Barlow Edward Journal of his life at sea.

GBP - 7.00
570 Baxter Richard Reliquiae Baxterianae.

GBP - 13.00
571 Beattie James Original poems and translations.

GBP - 6.00
572 Beattie James The Judgment of Paris.

GBP - 2.00
573 Beaumont Francis and John Fletcher Fifty comedies and tragedies.

1679

GBP - 3.00
574 Beaumont Joseph Psyche: or loves mysterie.

1648

GBP - 32.00
575 Beaumont J. Psyche, or love's mystery ... the second edition with ... four new cantos.

1702

GBP - 17.00
576 Beckford William A Picture of Society.

GBP - 12.00
577 Beddoes Thomas Lovell The Brides' Tragedy.

1822

GBP - 20.00
578 Behn Mrs. Aphra The Town-Fop: or Sir Timothy Tawdry. A Comedy.

1677

GBP - 16.00
579 Behn Mrs. Aphra The Rover. Or, the banish't cavaliers.

1677

GBP - 18.00
580 Behn Mrs. Aphra The Rover.

1697-81

GBP - 22.00
581 Behn Mrs. Aphra Sir Patient Fancy: a comedy.

1678

GBP - 14.00
582 Behn Mrs. Aphra The young king: or, the fatal mistake.

1683

GBP - 14.00
583 BENLOWES EDWARD THEOPHILA, or loves sacrifice. A divine poem.

1652

GBP - 230.00
584 Bain F. W. Beowulf ... and the Fight at Finnesburg.

GBP - 9.00
585 Bewick T. A general history of quadrupeds.

GBP - 3.00
586 Duff E. Gordon Fifteenth Century English books.

1917

GBP - 9.00
587 Bibliographical Society.

1920-59

GBP - 52.00
588 Pollard A. W. and G. R. Redgrave A Short-Title Catalogue of Books printed in England.

1926

GBP - 6.00
589 W. W. Greg and E. Boswell Records of the Court of the Stationers' Company, 1576 to 1602.

1930-57

GBP - 4.00
590 Johnson A. F. A Catalogue of Engraved and Etched English Title-Pages down to 1691.

1934

GBP - 3.00
591 Hodnett Edward English Woodcuts 1480-1535.

1935

GBP - 5.00
592 Thomas Henry Early Spanish Bookbindings XI-XV centuries

1939

GBP - 4.00
593 Greg W. W. A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration.

1939-57

GBP - 16.00
594 Greg W. W. A list of English plays written before 1643 and printed before 1700.

GBP - 14.00
595 Wise T. J. A Bibliography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1913.

GBP - 11.00
596 Day C. L. and E. B. Murrie English Song Books.

GBP - 15.00
597 R. B. McKerrow, H. R. Plomer Dictionary (A) Of printers and booksellers in England.

GBP - 24.00
598 Britwell Court Library (Sale Catalogues).

1919-27

GBP - 6.00
599 Brydges Sir Egerton and Joseph Haslewood The British Bibliographer.

1810-14

GBP - 15.00
600 F. W. Bateson Cambridge Bibliography of English literature (The).

1940

GBP - 8.00
601 Carter John and Graham Pollard An Enquiry into the nature of certain nineteenth century pamphlets.

1934

GBP - 105.00
602 English Literature and Bibliography.

GBP - 4.00
603 English Poetry.

1950

GBP - 10.00
604 Greenough C. N. A bibliography of the Theophrastan character in English.

1947

GBP - 4.00
605 Hobson G. D. English bindings.

1940

GBP - 38.00
606 Huth Library: the Sale Catalogue.

1911-20

GBP - 16.00
607 Johnson John Typographia or The Printer's Instructor.

GBP - 5.00
608 Keynes Sir Geoffrey Bibliography of the Works of Dr. John Donne.

GBP - 4.00
609 Kraus H. P. Catalogues of rare books and MSS.

GBP - 3.00
610 Macdonald Hugh John Dryden a Bibliography

1939

GBP - 14.00
611 Martin Burns Bibliography of Allan Ramsay.

GBP - 13.00
612 Oxford Bibliographical Society.

1923-59

GBP - 46.00
613 Partington Wilfred Forging Ahead.

GBP - 11.00
614 Robinson William H. Catalogues of rare books and MSS.

1948-53

GBP - 1.00
615 Rollins Hyder E. An Analytical Index to the Ballad-Entries (1557-1709) in the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, cloth.

GBP - 8.00
616 Wise Thomas James A Shelley Library.

1924

GBP - 28.00
617 Wise T. J. The Ashley Library.

1936, 1925, 1930

GBP - 11.00
618 Wise T. J. A Swinburne Library.

1925

GBP - 22.00
619 Wise T. J. Two Lake Poets.

1927

GBP - 18.00
620 Wise T. J. A Conrad Library.

1928

GBP - 20.00
621 Wise T. J. A Byron Library.

1928

GBP - 36.00
622 Wise T. J. A Landor Library

1928

GBP - 32.00
623 Wise T. J. A Browning Library.

1929

GBP - 18.00
624 Wise T. J. A Bronte Library.

1929

GBP - 18.00
625 Wise T. J. A Dryden Library.

1930

GBP - 40.00
626 Wise T. J. A Pope Library.

1931

GBP - 28.00
627 Woodward Gertrude L. and James G. McManaway A Check List of English Plays 1641-1700.

GBP - 12.00
628 Blair Robert The grave ... illustrated by twelve etchings executed by L. Schiavonetti from the original inventions of William Blake.

1808

GBP - 30.00
629 Blake William The marriage of Heaven and Hell.

1868

GBP - 12.00
630 BLUNDEN EDMUND AUTOGRAPH MSS: "In May 1916: near Riche-bourg St. Vaast", six 4-line stanzas.

1938-52

GBP - 30.00
631 BLUNDEN EDMUND Christ Church.

1929-36

GBP - 28.00
632 Blunden Edmund A Country Prayer.

1932

GBP - 45.00
633 Blunden Edmund Near and Far.

GBP - 4.00
634 BLUNDEN EDMUND The Epilogue for King John.

GBP - 42.00
635 BLUNDEN EDMUND The happy morn.

GBP - 40.00
636 BLUNDEN EDMUND On the poems of Henry Vaughan.

GBP - 24.00
637 Blunden Edmund Shelley and Keats.

GBP - 6.00
638 Boccaccio Giovanni [Tragedies ... translated by John Lydgate].

1555

GBP - 2.00
639 Bodenham John and Nicholas Ling Politeuphuia, Wit's commonwealth.

GBP - 8.00
640 Boileau Despreaux N. The art of poetry.

1708-33

GBP - 38.00
641 Borrow George Lavengro.

GBP - 1.00
642 Boswell James Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson.

GBP - 5.00
643 Boswell J. The life of Samuel Johnson.

1887

GBP - 1.00
644 Boyer Abel The English Theophrastus: or, the manners of the Age.

GBP - 15.00
645 Bradley Edward The adventures of Mr. Verdant Green.

1853, '54, '57

GBP - 7.00
646 Bradley Henry Collected papers, portrait, original cloth, 4to Oxford.

GBP - 8.00
647 Bridges Robert Poems.

1873

GBP - 21.00
648 Bridges R. The Growth of Love.

1876

GBP - 10.00
649 Bridges R. Poems.

1879

GBP - 8.00
650 Bridges R. Poems.

1880

GBP - 8.00
651 Bridges R. Nero; Palacio; Return of Ulysses.

1885-93

GBP - 8.00
652 Bridges R. The Shorter Poems.

1890

GBP - 8.00
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