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English literature and history: including the archive and library of Dorothy L. Sayers ; the Ronald Segal collection of English literature and detective fiction ; important collection of papers of Nassau William Senior and his family, including letters by T.R. Malthus, Florence Nightingale, George Eliot, and G.F. Watts ; correspondence of Charles Dickens and Emmy Gottschalk and his presentation copy of David Copperfield inscribed to her ; important collection of books and manuscripts by Oscar Wilde ; collection of letters by survivors of the Lusitania ; fine first editions of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh and others ; autograph letters and manuscripts by Frances Stuart ('La Belle Stuart'), Daniel Defoe, James Harris, first Lord Malmesbury, Aubrey Beardsley, R.L. Stevenson, George Moore, G.K. Chesterton, John Betjeman, Samuel Beckett, Lord Mountbatten, and others

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Corporate Author Sotheby's (Firm)
Title English literature and history : including the archive and library of Dorothy L. Sayers ; the Ronald Segal collection of English literature and detective fiction ; important collection of papers of Nassau William Senior and his family, including letters by T.R. Malthus, Florence Nightingale, George Eliot, and G.F. Watts ; correspondence of Charles Dickens and Emmy Gottschalk and his presentation copy of David Copperfield inscribed to her ; important collection of books and manuscripts by Oscar Wilde ; collection of letters by survivors of the Lusitania ; fine first editions of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh and others ; autograph letters and manuscripts by Frances Stuart ('La Belle Stuart'), Daniel Defoe, James Harris, first Lord Malmesbury, Aubrey Beardsley, R.L. Stevenson, George Moore, G.K. Chesterton, John Betjeman, Samuel Beckett, Lord Mountbatten, and others
Publisher London : Sotheby's, 2000
Physical desc. 292 pages ; illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cm.
Note 19/12/2000
Date & place of sale Tuesday 19 December 2000, London
Subject Rare books -- Catalogs
Manuscripts -- Catalogs
Authors' presentation copies -- Catalogs
First editions -- Catalogs
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10014602 Box 53
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