English literature and history [ Sotheby's, auction catalogue, sale date: 15-16 July, 1998 ] by Sotheby's - 1998

Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th and 16th July, 1998. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 224 pp, plates, ills. 634 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: The 'Blank Stone' Quarto edition of William Tyndale's New Testament (1536); Coverdale's New Testament (1538) in a contemporary Netherlandish binding; William Loe's 'Song of Sion' (1620); A copy of the only work from the Foulis Press printed on coloured silk (Anacreon, 1751 ); The first edition of'Nicholas Nickleby' inscribed by Charles Dickens to Hans Christian Andersen; the first edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', with the original dust-jacket; the library of the late E.E. Bissell, including first editions and manuscripts by A.C. Swinburne, W.H. Davies, A.E. Housman, and others; a fine collection of first editions, inscribed presentation copies, and other works by Wyndham Lewis An important collection of letters by Charles and Frances Burney and members of their circle; an important archive of letters written to the engraver Thomas Bewick; arare portrait of Mary Shelley; love letters from the fifth Duke of Marlborough to his mistress Matilda Glover; glass photographic slides and books owned by Francis Griffiths relating to the Cottingley Fairies; the proclamation of Independence of the Irish Republic 1916, and other manuscripts relating to Ireland; a letter by Oscar Wilde discussing the Irish Famine; an important series of letters by T.E. Lawrence to his Arabic teacher Farida el Akle; other fine collections of letters by or relating to Mahatma Gandhi, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Edith Sìtwell, Henry Miller, Patricia Highsmith, and others. Near Fine.