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161 The Dyson Perrins collection [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1958   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 3.
162 Early presses and monastic libraries of North-West Europe: a catalogue of manuscripts and printed books up to A.D. 1520, including incunabula from the collection of La Serna Santander, keeper of the Brussels library from 1795 to 1811 [Sales Catalogue] Maggs Bros 1964   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
163 Edward Bayntun-Coward: catalogue 3 for George Bayntun [Sales Catalogue] George Bayntun (Firm) 1995   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
164 Edward Bayntun-Coward: catalogue 5 for George Bayntun [Sales Catalogue] George Bayntun (Firm) 1997   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
165 The eightieth catalogue: remarkable manuscripts, books and maps from the IXth to the XVIIIth century, including many first descriptions of hitherto unknown items recently discovered [Sales Catalogue] H.P. Kraus (Firm) 1956   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
166 Eleven subjects [Sales Catalogue] H.P. Kraus (Firm) 1998   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
167 The English Civil War 1641-1649: a catalogue of pamphlets & broadsides, largely from the recently dispersed libraries of Lord Fairfax of Cameron and the Marquess of Bute [Sales Catalogue] Maggs Bros 1996   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
168 English literature: comprising printed books, autograph letters and manuscripts, including : an unrecorded Tudor work in verse [...] ; Auden, Poems, first edition, with the erratum and with annotations by Stephen Spender ; bound-up set of the page-proofs for the first edition of Joyce, Dubliners ; Joyce, Ulysses, first edition, one of 100 copies signed by the author ; Ford Maddox Ford, The good solder, presentation copy [...] ; the photograph collection of Virginia and Leonard Woolf [...] ; letters and manuscripts by Auden, Beckett, Beerbohm, [...] Whitman, Whitehead and Yeats. [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1982   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
169 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 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1983   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
170 English literature and books printed in England prior to 1800 [Sales Catalogue] Maggs Bros 1978   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
171 English literature and English history, comprising printed books, autograph letters and manuscripts: comprising printed books, autograph letters and manuscripts : Higden Polychronicon, printed by Caxton, 1482, Spenser Colin Clouts come home again, 1595 ; the first issue of the authorised version of the Bible ("The King James Bible"), 1611 ; Swift Gulliver's travels, 1762 ; Johnson, Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands, 1771 ; Jane Austen's copy of Richardson The history of Sir Charles Grandison 1754 ; a subscriber's copy of T.E. Lawrence, Seven pillars of wisdom ; Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead revisited, one of 50 advance proof copies, 1945 [1944] ; the Red book of Kildare, an important collection relating to English recusancy, including letters by William Allen and Robert Parsons ; 'Ballades dedicated by the Lady Victoria by their author John Patricke Carey', 1652-53 ; Robert Burns's desk ; the autograph working notebook for Elizabeth Barrett Browning's The Seraphim, and other poems, 1835-37 ; Oscar Wilde's account at the Savoy Hotel for March 1893 ; letters by Admiral Sir Roger Keyes to Admiral Sir David Beatty, concerning the planning of the Zeebrugge raid ; the F.B.I. file kept on Graham Greene [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1984   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
172 English literature and English history: comprising printed books, autograph letters and manuscripts : including Burton, The anatomy of melancholy, 1621 ; Montaigne, The essayes, 1603 [...] ; Lawrence, Seven pillars of wisdom, 1923 ; The seven pillars of wisdom, first American edition, presentation copy, 1926 [...] ; an important series of letters by Rider Haggard to members of his family [...] ; the Silver bell of the Ladies of Llangollen [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1983   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
173 English literature and English history: comprising printed books, autograph letters and manuscripts by or relating to Cranmer, Miles Coverdale (the Bible of 1535), Arbella Stuart, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Dr Johnson, Adam Smith, William Blake, Lord Nelson, Thomas Clarkson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, President Kruger, Oscar Wilde, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Clements Markham and Captain Scott, Petty Officer Edgar Evans, D.H. Lawrence, John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield, W.B. Yeats, Evelyn Waugh, Dorothy L. Sayers, David Jones, and others [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1984   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
174 English literature and fine printing, 1800-1985 [Sales Catalogue] Maggs Bros 1986   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
175 English literature and history: including the Warwick Shakespeare deed ; and other important items relating to Shakespeare from the Warwick collections ; the Nugent manuscript of Irish bardic poetry from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries ; the first edition of the first English translation of Homer, 1581 ; Francis Bacon's copy of a tract against 'prophecies' by the Earl of Northampton, 1620 ; a 'Harmony' of the Gospels produced by Nicholas Ferrar's community at Little Gidding, 1635 ; a fourth folio of Shakespeare, 1685 ; the working papers for the unratified Anglo-American Treaty of 1806, the failure of which led to the War of 1812 ; Mrs. Beeton's own family copy of her Household management ; Oscar Wilde's annotated copy of Matthew Arnold's Poems ; Henry James's 'French library' ; a first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses ; intimate and forthright letters by D.H. Lawrence discussing Lady Chatterley's lover ; annotated proof pages of Churchill's abridged The Second World War ; rare first editions and manuscripts by Graham Greene ; a collection of books by Agatha Christie ; James Bond books inscribed by Ian Fleming ; notable letters by David Hume, Frances Burney, Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, S.T. Coleridge, Charles Dickens, W.M. Thackeray, J.E. Millais, Aubrey Beardsley, G.B. Shaw, T.E. Lawrence, Malcolm Lowry, and others [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1997   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
176 English literature and history: including the Charles Dickens archive ; also including the archive of Dickens's friend Charles Kent ; the Dickens collection from Bleak House Museum, Broadstairs ; fine letters and documents signed by Queen Elizabeth I, one three days after her accession ; other letters and documents signed by Mary Queen of Scots, James VI, Anne of Denmark, and the Marquess of Montrose ; the rare first edition of John Taylor's A brief remembrance of all the English monarchs, 1618 ; a rare author's inscribed presentation copy of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France ; fine autograph letters and presentation volumes by Lewis Carroll to Princess Alice ; a fine illustrated album by R.M. Ballantyne ; a fine presentation copy of Rudyard Kipling's Echoes, 1884 ; an important collection of memorabilia of the Yeats family, including W.B. Yeats's Mosada and early drawings by Jack B. Yeats ; books and manuscripts by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, including a signed Hound of the Baskervilles ; letters by Henry James, Max Beerbohm and others addressed to Filson Young ; a collection of works by Norman Douglas ; an important illustrated series of early letters by Henry Moore, 1926-1927 ; working poetical manuscripts by Ted Hughes ; other fine letters and documents by W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, Bertrand Russell, E.M. Forster, Henry Miller, Graham Greene, Raymond Chandler, Bruce Chatwin, and others [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1999   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
177 English literature and history: including the Fourth Folio of William Shakespeare, 1685 ; English New Testament, with woodcuts, 1538 ; the letterbooks of Viscount Torrington, Ambassador in Brussels, 1782-1792 ; [...] collection of glass slide photographs taken on T.E. Lawrence's early tour of Crusader castles ; Ian Fleming's 'Goldeneye' passport ; fine letters by Patrick Brontë, Lord Byron, S.T. Coleridge, Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, Anna Sewell, E.M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Sir Winston Churchill, Anaïs Nin, and others [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2000   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
178 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 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2000   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
179 English literature and history: including the archive of the philosopher and historian Sir James Mackintosh ; a collection of letters and working filmscripts relating to Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr. Strangelove' ; illuminated pedigree presented by Robert Cooke to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester ; important collection of family correspondence of Sir Laurence Olivier ; books and scripts of the actor Denholm Elliott ; papers of Guy Johnson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in New York in the War of Independence ; collections of first editions by Ian Fleming, William Golding and Vladimir Nabokov ; fine collections of works by W.B. Yeats, some inscribed ; fine autograph letters signed by John Evelyn, Joseph Addison, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Horace Walpole, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, Ted Hughes, and others [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2000   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
180 English literature before 1800 [Sales Catalogue] Maggs Bros 2001   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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