[ Printed catalogue. ] The Denholm Collection of Autograph Letters and Ancient Curious Documents.

[4] + 74pp., 8vo. In good condition, aged and worn. In worn red cloth binding, with title in gilt on spine and front cover. A brief description of the more than 800 items in the collection, which was arranged in ten volumes. Occasional entries feature quotations. Of interest is Vol. I, item 58: 'Winston Churchill, M.P., from Government House, Natal, in which he says: - | [five line quotation from the letter follows]'. See also vol.4, item 11: 'Napoleon I. - Fifty pages of folio, the original papers he had at the battle of Chiclana, Spain, in 1811, containing a list of officers who distinguished themselves at the battle and were submitted to Napoleon for promotion, with his autograph memoranda "accorde," and numerous other markings in the hand of the great Emperor.' The entry for Vol.9, item 1, reproduces over a whole page transcriptions from 'Original manuscript poems' by Robert Burns, beginning 'Ye've heard this while how I've been icket,' and the entry for Vol.9, item 6, contains an eight-page transcription from a letter from Burns to Colonel Fullarton. The entry for Vol.5, item 50, reproduces a sixteen-line poem in Latin by Ainsworth, from 1724. Vol.6, item 10a is an eleven-line entry on 'an interesting and very valuable auto. letter' by David Garrick. Also items by Jefferson Davis, Daniel O'Connell and Benjamin Disraeli, Cowper, Southey, Allan Cunningham and Smollett. The volume is now extremely uncommon.