[Book-collecting]. Library and auction catalogues, 19th and 20th century, comprising: 1. Bibliotheca Chethamensis: sive Bibliocae publicae Mancuniensis ... edidit Joannes Radcliffe [-Gulielmus Parr Gresswell], volumes 1-3 (of 6), 1st editions, Manchester: J. Harrop [-Henry Smith], 1791-1791-1826, engraved portrait frontispiece, bookplates and labels of the viscounts Mountgarret of Nidd Hall, contemporary polished calf by J. Winstanley of Manchester (with his ticket), gilt rules, 8vo (21.2 x 12.8 cm), a good set, 2. A Catalogue of the Highly Valuable Collection of Prints, the Property of the Late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. ... Which, by Order of the Executors, will be sold by Auction by Mr. Sotheby, at his House, No. 3, Wellington Street, Strand, on Monday the 7th Day of December, 1824, and seven following Days, 1st edition, [London]: J. Davy, 1824, [4] 58 [iv], 2 advertisement leaves to rear including 'The Entire Library of the late James Boswell' (not noted on Library Hub), contemporary allegorical engraving of tragedy and comedy tipped to title-page, annotated throughout with buyers and prices realised, spotting and browning, contemporary green half roan, loss to spine-ends, front joint partially cracked, tips worn, 4to (27.2 x 20.5 cm), 3. An Alphabetical Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of the Writings of Daniel De Foe, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: for Whitmore and Fenn, 1830, extra-illustrated with a wood-engraved portrait frontispiece (mounted) and a leaf from an 18th-century bookseller's advertisement, annotated interleaves throughout, initial blank annotated 'The additions in MS to this catalogue are by the late F. R. Atkinson Esq., Jas. [?]Cropley', Atkinson's embossed bookplate re-imposed to front pastedowns, ownership inscription (dated 1973) and bibliographical annotations of Brent Gration-Maxfield to front pastedown and free endpaper, modern half sheep to style, 8vo (19.6 x 12 cm). 4. Catalogue Raisonné of Books Printed at the Curwen Press 1920-1912, London: The Medici Society Limited, 1924, with colour woodcut bookplate of Ifan Kyrle Fletcher (1905-1969) designed by E. McKnight Kauffer original boards, dent to front, 8vo, 5. The Library of Mrs. Elizabeth Vesey 1715-1791. The First of the Blue-Stockings ... Purchased by Private Treaty and removed from the Family Mansion, Lucan House, near Dublin. With a Biographical Note by Ross Balfour, 1st edition, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Wiliam H. Robinson, 1926, 92 pp., 2 halftone plates, original wrappers bound in, autograph signatures of Lionel Robinson, Philip Robinson and D. Ross Balfour dated March 1926 on binder's blank, bookplate of David Ross Balfour, contemporary orange half calf, gilt spine, joints and extremities rubbed, 8vo (21.2 x 13.2 cm), and 5 others (Qty: 13) The Bibliotheca Chethamensis is often catalogued by libraries as complete with the first two volumes only, and the later volumes published between 1826 and 1883 considered to be continuations rather than integral to the original work.
[Book-collecting]. Library and auction catalogues, 19th and 20th century, comprising: 1. Bibliotheca Chethamensis: sive Bibliocae publicae Mancuniensis ... edidit Joannes Radcliffe [-Gulielmus Parr Gresswell], volumes 1-3 (of 6), 1st editions, Manchester: J. Harrop [-Henry Smith], 1791-1791-1826, engraved portrait frontispiece, bookplates and labels of the viscounts Mountgarret of Nidd Hall, contemporary polished calf by J. Winstanley of Manchester (with his ticket), gilt rules, 8vo (21.2 x 12.8 cm), a good set, 2. A Catalogue of the Highly Valuable Collection of Prints, the Property of the Late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. ... Which, by Order of the Executors, will be sold by Auction by Mr. Sotheby, at his House, No. 3, Wellington Street, Strand, on Monday the 7th Day of December, 1824, and seven following Days, 1st edition, [London]: J. Davy, 1824, [4] 58 [iv], 2 advertisement leaves to rear including 'The Entire Library of the late James Boswell' (not noted on Library Hub), contemporary allegorical engraving of tragedy and comedy tipped to title-page, annotated throughout with buyers and prices realised, spotting and browning, contemporary green half roan, loss to spine-ends, front joint partially cracked, tips worn, 4to (27.2 x 20.5 cm), 3. An Alphabetical Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of the Writings of Daniel De Foe, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: for Whitmore and Fenn, 1830, extra-illustrated with a wood-engraved portrait frontispiece (mounted) and a leaf from an 18th-century bookseller's advertisement, annotated interleaves throughout, initial blank annotated 'The additions in MS to this catalogue are by the late F. R. Atkinson Esq., Jas. [?]Cropley', Atkinson's embossed bookplate re-imposed to front pastedowns, ownership inscription (dated 1973) and bibliographical annotations of Brent Gration-Maxfield to front pastedown and free endpaper, modern half sheep to style, 8vo (19.6 x 12 cm). 4. Catalogue Raisonné of Books Printed at the Curwen Press 1920-1912, London: The Medici Society Limited, 1924, with colour woodcut bookplate of Ifan Kyrle Fletcher (1905-1969) designed by E. McKnight Kauffer original boards, dent to front, 8vo, 5. The Library of Mrs. Elizabeth Vesey 1715-1791. The First of the Blue-Stockings ... Purchased by Private Treaty and removed from the Family Mansion, Lucan House, near Dublin. With a Biographical Note by Ross Balfour, 1st edition, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Wiliam H. Robinson, 1926, 92 pp., 2 halftone plates, original wrappers bound in, autograph signatures of Lionel Robinson, Philip Robinson and D. Ross Balfour dated March 1926 on binder's blank, bookplate of David Ross Balfour, contemporary orange half calf, gilt spine, joints and extremities rubbed, 8vo (21.2 x 13.2 cm), and 5 others (Qty: 13) The Bibliotheca Chethamensis is often catalogued by libraries as complete with the first two volumes only, and the later volumes published between 1826 and 1883 considered to be continuations rather than integral to the original work.
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