[Messrs Henry Southgate and Co., London auctioneers.] Attractive notice, on parchment paper, illuminated in colours, announcing the completion of 'the alterations of their extensive premises', now able to display a library of 20,000 books in one room

2pp., 4to. In fair condition, on aged and lightly-worn paper. An attractive production, printed on a leaf of parchment paper, with illuminations and decorative designs in red, blue, green and gold, in the Gothic style of the period. At the end of the second page, above the printer's slug, and illuminated: 'Auction Rooms 22 Fleet Street London | Established 1823'. The text begins: 'Messrs Henry Southgate & Co having completed the alterations of their extensive premises, beg respectfully to call the attention of Executors, Trustees, and others, having Literary Property to dispose of, to the importance of their being enabled to display an entire library, even should it extend to twenty thousand volumes, in one large room, at the same moment; thus affording their connection and casual visiters [sic] an opportunity to make personal selections with the greatest facility, instead of depending on the description of the catalogue. | Most centrally situate, near the two principal Inns of Court, within a few doors of the Middle Temple gate, the facilities for the disposal of Law Libraries are undeniable, whilst the immediate vicinity of the largest West-end Bankers, Messrs. Hoare's, Gosling's, Child's, and Strahan's, and being in the main thoroughfare from the City to the Court-end of Town, enable them to obtain the attendance of more private buyers and collectors than could be induced to visit less public premises.' The notice continues with the firm offering an advance of two-thirds of the value in cases of immediate sale, and with reference to 'testamentary valuations' and 'advances on consignments from the Continent'. A similar announcement by the firm appeared in Bent's Literary Advertiser, March 1843, p.45.