Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
February 1899
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/60
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    _____.1863 THAcKERAY (W. M.) “He never told his love,” a humorous nm, Am) water-colour drawing, signed, 1863 9 inches by 7 inches é dk a! P {864 Thomas (Wm.) Historye of Italye, black Ietter, woodcut title, ” hs LARGE COPY, old binding, Ranw small 4to, I. Marshe, 1561 / pik Te be *,* The author and his book were both condemned to be burnt 7° ~ 0. £33 by order of Q. Mary. Sais 1865 ‘THACKERAY (W. M.) TEN OF THE ORIGINAL TRACINGS DONE BY THACKERAY FOR SLEAPE, WHO BIT IN THE PLATES, OF HIS DRAWINGS FOR THE STEEL ENGRAVINGS ILLUSTRATING VANITY Farr. The subjects of these tracings, which in several instances differ considerably in detail from the finished plates, are:—1, Major Sugarplums, page 319; 2, Mrs. Rawdon’s departure from Paris, p. 327; 3, The arrival 2% ' at Queens’ Crawley, p. 400; 4, Becky in Lombard Street, i ~o p. 433; 5, Georgie goes to Church genteelly, p. 448; 6, Y- Sir Pitt’s study chair, p. 482; 7, “A Meeting,” p. 525; . 8, Mr. Jos’s Hookahbadar, p. 533; 9, Jos performs a Polonaise, p. 569; 10, Tracing of an unpublished drawing, a figure (Jos, ?) being measured by a tailor for a coat *,* The complete set of these tracings was given by Thackeray to Sleape, who gave them as a wedding present to his inti- mate friend, Mr. Alexander. The above ten tracings are the property of his widow, and those that are missing were either a disposed of, or lost, during Mr. Alexander’s lifetime. 1866 Thackeray (W. M.) William Makepeace Thackeray at Clevedon Court, reproduction of the famous sketches made by Thacke- ray at Clevedon Court, 15 leaves, with descriptions in Thackeray's [© autograph below each sketch, VERY FINE COPY, morocco extra, t. €. g. (circa 1860) *,* A few copies were privately printed for presents only. An autograph letter of Thackeray’s, in reference to Sterne and Goldsmith, is inserted. 1866* Tour of Doctor Syntax through London, or the Pleasures and ‘sy 4 Miseries of the Metropolis, a poem by Doctor Syntax, third 2?/. edition, numerous coloured plates, one a little torn, calf gilt, m. e. 1820 1866**Trial of Capt. P. Dennyss for Crim. Con. with his Brother’s 26 ; Wife, half calf 1804 0 1867 Wales. Caradoc’s Histoire of Cambria, now called Wales, trans- (+ lated by Lloyd, black letter, woodcut title and woodcut portraus, po LARGE PERFECT COPY, calf, ex-libris of Sir P. Thompson small 4to. 1584 1868 WALTON (IsAAc) THE CoMPLEAT ANGLER, or the Contemplative = Mans Recreation, engraved title and copperplate engravings, THE c EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDITION, last leaf and a portion of iy heer page 80 m old facsimile, writing on title, and name Mary ‘som Bagshawe on pp. 54 and 88, some brown age-spots and one head- RE line shaved very close, BUT OTHERWISE PERFECT, AND A LARGE } AND GENUINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL SHEEP (53 inches high by 2 wide) L. Maxey for Rich, Marriot in St. Dunstan’s Church-Yard, Fleet Street, 1653