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Towneley (John) [Sale Catalogue] Bibliotheca Towneleiana. A Catalogue of the Curious and Extensive Library..., Part I only (of 3), annotations, interleaved with prices and buyers' names in manuscript, modern cloth-backed boards, R.H.Evans, 1814; [Sale Catalogue] A Catalogue of a Capital Collection of Prints...[by] Wenceslaus Hollar prices and names in manuscript, old marbled boards, rebacked and recornered in calf, preserved in modern marbled board drop-back box, [Lugt 9397], King, 1818; [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Towneley Library [& Manuscripts], removed from Towneley Hall, Lancashire, 2 works in 1 vol., ruled in red and with prices in manuscript, old marbled boards, rubbed, rebacked in cloth, Sotheby's, 1883, 8vo & 4to (3) ⁂ John Towneley (1731-1813), bibliophile, uncle and heir of Charles Towneley, collector of classical antiquities. The first sale included the "Towneley Homer", the famous 11th century Greek manuscript on vellum which was bought by Charles Burney for £620 and is now in the British Library, and the "Towneley Mysteries" 15th century manuscript now in the Huntington Library in America.