Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS., 09May1938,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 09, 1938 - May 09, 1938

Page Size: 820 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	Clare, J.	The Shepherd's Calendar		1827	GBP -	0.16
102	Clare, J.	Poems; The Village Minstrel		1820, 1821	GBP -	1.05
103	Clare, J.	The Village Minstrel; The Shepherd's Calendar		1821, April 30, 1827	GBP -	1.00
104	Coleridge, S. T.	Poems on various Subjects		1796	GBP -	9.15
105	Coleridge, S. T, C. Lamb and C. Lloyd	Poems		1797	GBP -	1.12
106	Coleridge, S. T.	The Friend, a Series of Essays		1809-10	GBP -	2.00
107	Coleridge, S. T.	Sibylline Leaves, a Collection of Poems		1817	GBP -	2.00
108	Coleridge, S. T.	Biographia Literaria		1817	GBP -	0.12
109	Coleridge, S. T.	Christabel : Kubla Khan, a Vision : The Pains of Sleep		1819	GBP -	6.00
110	Coleridge, S. T.; Horne, R. H.; Leigh, Lord	Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit; Orion; Walks in the Country		1840, 1843, 1844	GBP -	0.12
111	Anthony Hope, W. J. Locke, J. J. Jacobs, L. Binyon, W. H. Davies, J. Masefield, J. M. Barrie, and others	Collection of works of 19th to 20th Century authors			GBP -	8.15
112	Collins, W.	Odes on several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects		1747	GBP -	14.10
113	Collins, W.	Poetical Works, with Memoir, etc.		1765	GBP -	3.00
114	Collins, W.	Poetical Works		1765	GBP -	1.18
115	Collins, W.	Poetical Works, with Memoirs and Observations		1781	GBP -	11.10
116	Corbet, R.	Poems		1672	GBP -	1.15
117	Cornwallis, Sir C.	Life and Death of late most incomparable and heroique Prince Henry		1641	GBP -	2.00
118	Cottle, J.; Talfourd, Sir T. N.; Clare, J.	Early Recollections chiefly relating to S. T. Coleridge; Memoirs of Charles Lamb; Poems chiefly from MS.		1837, 1892, 1920	GBP -	0.10
119	Cowper, W.	Olney Hymns		1779	GBP -	2.05
120	Cowper, W.	Poems		1782	GBP -	17.00
121	Cowper, W.	Poems		1782-85	GBP -	31.00
122	Cowper, W.	Poems		1803	GBP -	4.00
123	Cowper, W.; Ireland, W. H.	Private Correspondence; Scribbleo-mania		1824, 1815	GBP -	Not Sold
124	Cowper, W.	Poems		1808, 1800, 1820	GBP -	0.08
125	Culpeper, N.	English Physician Enlarged		1656	GBP -	2.15
126	Culpeper, N.	Two Books of Physick; also Culpeper's Ghost		1656	GBP -	1.10
127	Davenant, Sir W.	Gondibert, an Heroick Poem		1651	GBP -	0.10
128	Defoe, D.	Robinson Crusoe		1790	GBP -	2.00
129	De Quincey, T.; Smollett, T.	Collected Writings; Works		1896, n. d.	GBP -	1.01
130	Dewar, G. A. B.	Life and Sport in Hampshire; The Faery Year, a Younger Son		1908, 1906, 1920	GBP -	0.08
131	Dickens, C.	Pictures from Italy		1846	GBP -	0.05
132	Dickens, C.	Pickwick Papers; Dombey and Son; Bleak House; Little Dorrit		1837, 1848, 1853, 1857	GBP -	1.10
133	Disraeli, I.	The Literary Character		1818	GBP -	1.15
134	Dobson, A.	Story of Rosina		1895	GBP -	1.15
135	Dobson, A.	Horace Walpole; William Hogarth		1893, 1891	GBP -	0.12
136	Dobson, A.	Ballad of Beau Brocade; Proverbs in Porcelain, 18th Century Vignettes		1892-3, 1892-4	GBP -	1.00
137	Dobson, A.; Meynell, A.	Thomas Bewick, and his Pupils; Mary the Mother of Jesus		1884, 1912	GBP -	1.00
138	Dobson, A.	Vignettes in Rhyme; Proverbs in Porce-lain; Poems on several Occasions		1873, 1877, 1895	GBP -	0.18
139	Dodsley, R.	Oeconomy of Human Life		1751	GBP -	0.05
140	Donovan, E.; Kirkby, W. and Spence	Natural History of British Shells; Introduction to Entomology		1799-1805, 1816-26	GBP -	1.12
141	Carlyle, T.	Sartor Resartus		1907	GBP -	3.05
142	Wordsworth, W.	A Decade of Years		1911	GBP -	4.00
143	Wordsworth, W.	The Prelude		1915	GBP -	4.00
144		Elzevirs. Virgilius. Opera; Plinius. Historiae naturalis		1636, 1635	GBP -	1.05
145	Wordsworth, W.	Ode on the Intimations of Immortality		1903	GBP -	2.15
146	Finch, Anne, Countess of Winchelsea	Miscellany Poems, on several occasions		1713	GBP -	2.00
147	Fuller, T.	Holy (and Profane) State	Cambridge	1642	GBP -	1.05
148	Garrick, D.	Lethe		1749	GBP -	0.10
149	Gaskell, E. C.; Wordsworth, W.	Cranford; Poems		1904, 1895	GBP -	1.15
150	Gay, J.	Fables		1727	GBP -	1.10
151	Gay, J.	Fables		1793	GBP -	0.10
152	Gay, J.; Milton, J.	Poems on several occasions; Paradise Lost		1720, 1794	GBP -	0.10
153	Glanville, J.	Vanity of Dogmatizing		1661	GBP -	0.18
154	Goldsmith, O.	Life of Richard Nash		1762	GBP -	0.12
155	Goldsmith, O.	History of England		1764	GBP -	0.05
156	Goldsmith, O.	Essays		1765	GBP -	1.15
157	Goldsmith, O.	The Deserted Village		1770	GBP -	8.00
158	Goldsmith, O.	Miscellaneous Works; containing all his Essays and Poems		1775	GBP -	0.10
159	Goldsmith, O.	Plays and Poems, to which is prefixed the Life of the Author	Dublin	1777	GBP -	1.00
160	Goldsmith, O.	Poems and Plays		1780	GBP -	0.05
161	Goldsmith, O.; Reade, C.; Tristram, W. O.	Vicar of Wakefield; Peg Woffington; Coaching Days and Coaching Ways		1890, 1899, 1893	GBP -	2.05
162	Goldsmith, O.; Sheridan, R. B.; Barrie, Sir J. M.	She stoops to Conquer; School for Scandal; Admirable Crichton			GBP -	1.05
163	Goldsmith, O. and Parnell; Beattie, J.; Goldsmith, O.	Poems; The Minstrel; Vicar of Wakefield		1804, 1807, 1886	GBP -	1.00
164	Goldsmith, O.; Milton, J.	History of the Earth; Paradise Regain'd		n. d., 1773	GBP -	0.05
165	Goldsmith, O.; Campbell, T.	Miscellaneous Works; Poetical Works		1820, 1837	GBP -	1.00
166	Goldsmith, O.;Hunt, Leigh	Poems; Plays and Citizen of the World; Poems; Essays		1889-91	GBP -	0.10
167	Goldsmith, O.; Prior, M.; Ritson, J.	Vicar of Wakefield; Poetical Works; Robin Hood		1773, 1779, 1795	GBP -	0.18
168	Gower, J.	De Confessione Amantis	London	1554	GBP -	6.00
169	Gray, T.	Elegy wrote in a Country Church Yard		1751	GBP -	6.00
170	Gray, T.	Designs by R. Bentley for Six Poems by T. Gray		1753	GBP -	0.10
171	Gray, T.	Odes	Strawberry Hill	1757	GBP -	8.15
172	Gray, T.	Poems	Dublin	1768	GBP -	0.05
173	Gray, T.	Poems	Glasgow	1768	GBP -	0.10
174	Gray, T.	Poems		1768	GBP -	0.10
175	Gray, T.	Elegy written in a Country Churchyard		1847	GBP -	Not Sold
176	Gray, T.; Boswell, J.	Poems; Life of S. Johnson, etc.	York	1778, 1859-60	GBP -	0.05
177	Grelot, W. J.	A Late Voyage to Constantinople		1683	GBP -	0.05
178	Beach Thomas, Sir W.; Boraston, J. M.	Grey of Falloden (Visc.) Falloden Papers, Charm of Birds; Yeo man's England, Birds by Land and Sea; Collett. Heart of a Bird		1926-27, 1934, 1905, 1937	GBP -	0.18
179	Gyraldus, L. G.	Herculis vita, eiusdem de musis syntagma, etc.	Basileae	1539	GBP -	0.08
180	Hall, T.	Funebria Florae, the Downfall of May-Games		1660	GBP -	3.05
181	Hardy, T.	Tess of the D'Urbervilles		1891	GBP -	0.10
182	Hardy, T.	Poems of the Past and Present		1902	GBP -	Not Sold
183	Hardy, T.	The Dynasts		1904-8	GBP -	0.10
184	Hardy, T.	Jude the Obscure; Wessex Poems and other Verses		1893, 1898	GBP -	0.05
185	Hardy, F. E.; Harper, C. G.; Sherren, W.	Early Life and Later Years of Thomas Hardy; The Hardy Country; Wessex of Romance		1928-30, 1904, 1902	GBP -	0.10
186	Hardy, T.	Time's Laughing Stock; Satires of Circum-stance; Moments of Vision; Late Lyrics and Earlier; Human Shows; Winter Words		1909, 1914, 1917, 1922, 1925, 1928	GBP -	0.10
186a	Hardy, Thomas	A. L. s., on misrepresentation of his novels as attacks on womankind	Dorchester	31.12.91	GBP -	0.18
187	Harraden, R.	Costume of the University of Cambridge		1806	GBP -	3.00
188	Harris, M.	Exposition of English Insects		1782	GBP -	Not Sold
189	Hayley, W.; W. Cowper	Life and Posthumous Writings of W. Cowper; Homer. Iliad and Odyssey		1803, 1791	GBP -	0.16
190	Hayley, W.; Thomson, J.	Triumphs of Temper; Seasons		1788, 1803, 1817, 1794	GBP -	2.02
191	Hazlitt, W.	Liber Amoris		1823	GBP -	0.10
192	Hazlitt, W.	Characters of Shakespear's Plays; Lectures on the English Poets; Select Poetry of Great Britain		1817, 1818, 1825	GBP -	0.10
193	Hazlitt, W.; Byron, Lord	Table-Talk; Spirit of the Age; Sardana-palus, etc.		1821, 1825, 1821	GBP -	0.10
194	Helps, Sir A.; Puckle, J.; Milton, J.	Thoughts in the Cloister; The Club, Paradise Lost		1835, 1834, 1821	GBP -	1.10
195	Herbert, G.	The Temple; The Temple		1634, 1703	GBP -	1.15
196	Hewlett, M.	Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay; New Canterbury Tales; Artemision		1900, 1901	GBP -	Not Sold
197		Highways and Byways			GBP -	1.04
198		Highways and Byways series			GBP -	1.00
199	Hogg, T. J.	Life of P. B. Shelley		1858	GBP -	1.10

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