Catalogue of a Superb Collection of Holograph Manuscripts, Holograph Correspondences and Holograph Letters of British and Continental Celebrities of Five Centuries.

Author: 
J. Pearson & Co., dealers.
Publication details: 
5 Pall Mall Place, London, S.W., [1918?].
£80.00
SKU: 5849

154pp., 4to, folding plates (facsimiles), grey printed wraps, slightly chipped and worn, title in red and black, some foxing, contents mainly good. Note inserted: war-time paper restrictions compel "very brief descriptions" but typewritten full descriptions may be requested. "All the Correspondences and Collections are handsomely and appropriately bound, and fit for the Library shelves." Highlights include Blake and Byron manuscripts, Robert Catesby's signature, the manuscript of Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda", twenty-seven letters from William Etty, "The Fielding Family Papers", and so on.