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English literature : comprising printed books, autograph letters and manuscripts : including the second edition of Bacon's Essayes, 1597 ; Donne, Poems, 1633 ; Davenant, Gondibert, 1651, presentation copy ; Shakespeare, Comedies, histories, and tragedies, fourth folio edition, 1685 ; the collection of seventeenth-century English literature formed by the late John Hart ; Byron, Waltz, 1813 ; Keats, Endymion, 1818, Charles Dickens's copy ; Trollope, La vendée, 1850 ; Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897 ; Joyce, Ulysses, 1922, one of 100 copies signed by the author ; Nancy Cunard, Negro, 1934 ; Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937, presentation copy, and The lord of the rings, 1954-1955, inscribed ; Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead revisited (1944), pre-publication version ; and presentation or inscribed copies of works by H.D., Gertrude Stein, Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Faulkner, W.B. Yeats, and Ian Fleming ; a page from the earliest known promptbook of 'Hamlet' ; an autograph letter by Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, to the Earl of Essex ; an autograph letter by Dryden ; the literary archive of Elizabeth Taylor ; the autograph manuscript of John Cowper Powys's 'Dostoevsky' ; manuscripts of Shaw's last dramatic work ; notes by Sir Walter Scott on the prototype of 'Meg Merrilies' ; manuscripts by contemporary writers sold partly on behalf of the Arvon Foundation |
