Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
March 1903
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/120
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    1251 Walford (E.) Small Folio Scrap Book used by Mr. Walford for the preservation of critical notices and autograph letters re- lating to his ‘‘ Tales of Our Great Families,” mostly loosely inserted (1877-82) 1252 Weever (J.) Ancient Funerall Monuments, within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland and the Islands adjacent, with the Monasteries, &c. FIRST EDITION, jine portrait, and en- graved title by Cecil, and woodcuts (no index), fine copy in original calf 1631 1253 Windsor Castle. Hollar’s Views of the Castle, comprising (1) Prospect from the North (1667); (2) Prospect from the South East; (3) Prospects of the Castle and Towne from the South West, West South West, and West by South; all after Christopher Wren by Hollar—St. George’s Chapel, Prospect from the South, with Ground Plan, half calf 1667 *,* Refer to Halliwell-Phillipps’ Shakespearean Rarities 373. Valuable for their illustrations of “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” 1254 Yorkk (JAMES) THE UNION OF HONOUR, the numerous coats of arms beautifully emblazoned, the engraved front. cut round and mounted, interleaved, and EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of several hundred old engravings, consisting of portraits, plates of Palaces, Castles, Antiquities, Tombs, etc. many of which are very scarce, calf _ 1640 1255 Young Student’s Library (The) containing, Extracts and Abridgments of the Most Valuable Books printed in England, and in the Foreign Journals, from the Year Sixty Five to This Time. To which is Added, A New Essay upon all sorts of Learning, wherein The Use of the Sciences Is Distinctly Treated on, unbound 1692 *,* Contains a reference to SHAKESPEARE; ‘ We are pretty confident, it would not have been for the Disreputation of Sir William Davenant, if the World had never seen anything of his, but his Gondibert, and the much more Excellent Shakespear wou'd not have been less admir’d, if an abundance of these things which are Printed for his, were omitted, Mr. Cowly is of this Opinion, we are sure.” (Pages xii and xiil).