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37 face aliquid AMERICAN EXPRESS CO amongst autograph B. B. AND H. H. binding bleſleng BOOK AUCTIONS book-buyers bookselling British Museum buyers catalogue description CATALOGUE FIRST FLOOR Catherine Orkney Chancery Lane CHARLES LAMB CHISWICK collection collectors and dealers COMPARISON OF CATALOGUE copy David Garrick Dibdin diffi EDMUND HODGSON excessively rare EXQUISITES face 43 face 9 EXTERIOR face A COMPARISON famous Fleet Street Garrick guineas H. H. HODGSON HENRY HILL HODGSON hundred LAMB THE BEAUMONT Layth LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS literary London loue M'CRINGER'S manuscript Messrs METHOD OF BOOK-AUCTIONS Mitre Tavern morocco number of books Old Compton Street owner pealyble pees Physic books POEMS PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE private circulation private collectors public sale purchaser rare books RARE ILLUSTRATION remarkable Robert Saunders Rowlandson ryght sale by auction Sale Catalogue selling Sold at Chancery THOMAS Row tion TITLE-PAGE UNCOLOURED FACSIMILE United Kingdom UNPACKING A LIBRARY vols volumes W. M. THACKERAY whycle
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Page 35 - ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR BY W. MARSHALL, with verses beneath, First Edition, modern morocco, gilt edges. Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, and are \ to be sold by John Benson, dwelling in \ St. Dunstans Church-yard 1640
Page 28 - of the careless passer-by; but I require that they shall all be dispersed under the hammer of the auctioneer, so that the pleasure which the acquiring of each one
Page 49 - to the auction of Charles Bernard's books, but the good ones were so monstrous dear, I could not reach them, so I laid out one pound seven shillings but very indifferently, and came away, and will go there no more.
Page 36 - know) are perfect; but if any of them appear to be otherwise before they be taken away, the Buyer shall have his choice of taking or leaving them.
Page 10 - during the latter part of the eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth
Page 50 - three shillings, but I'll go there no more; and so I said once before, but now I'll keep to it.
Page 28 - me, shall be given again, in each case, to some inheritor of my own tastes.
Page 50 - I itch to lay out nine or ten pounds for some fine editions of fine authors.
Page 18 - celebrated English and foreign writers on civil, canon, and ecclesiastical law from the earliest time, as well as many manuscripts of great interest.
Page 43 - Whate'er they did was done with so much case, 'In them alone 'twas natural to please: