Autograph Letter Signed ('Wm. Salt') from the antiquary and book collector William Salt to the editor of the Gentleman's Magazine John Bowyer Nichols, making editorial comments and enclosing a list of 'Buckler's Engravings'.

Letter: 2pp., 4to. 28 lines of text. List: 1p., on a 12mo strip. Both letter and list in very good condition, neatly placed in windowpane mounts on the two leaves of a bifolium. Salt is 'just finishing the List of Manuscript Erdeswick's' and will bring it to Nichols when he returns to London. He wonders whether Nichols has 'nearly come to the end of the Book in your reprint? I do not think you will make your first sheet answer satisfactorily - without printing the whole or part of it over again - but of course you will be the best judge of that'. He makes a couple of comments on it, before stating that he is enclosing 'a List of 12 of John Buckler's engravings which I am in want of to complete a Set of his works, which he has very liberally supplied me with. [...] The usual Printshops have been ransacked without success.' He asks if Nichols has any 'contained in the within List that you could spare - I have been told you bought a Volume of Buckler's works some time since'. He ends by wishing Nichols's son 'late' congratulations on his marriage. The enclosure lists the twelve engravings according to county.