SABIN

[Frank Sabin, leading bookseller in his time] Autograph Quotation of Eleven Manuscript items by W.M. Thackeray

Author: 
[Frank Sabin, leading bookseller in his time]
Publication details: 
[Headed Notepaper] 118 Shaftesbury Avenue, W, (late 3, Garrick Street), London [and later 46 Albemarle St, close to John Murray], BOOKS | ENGRAVINGS | AUTOGRAPHS | ETC. , 10 March 189[2?]
£150.00

Is it missing a covering note to the client? Four pages, 8vo, bifolium, text clear and complete, some staining and small closed tears. Eleven Autograph Letters AND Manuscripts. With prices. See Images for full text. ITEM 1: ALS, 2 Nov. [1839] re. story published in the Comic Almanack, quotation not found (Googlebooks); ITEM 2: ALS, 11 Aug. [1839] quotation found (Googlebooks: Library of the Late Major William H.

Catalogue of Books for sale at the annexed prices', numbers 49 (Jan. 1873) to 72 (Dec. 1874); with 'The American Bibliopolist', vols. 5 and 6 (New York, Jan. 1873 to Dec. 1874); and incomplete 'Catalogue of Standard English Books' (undated).

Author: 
J. Sabin & Sons [Joseph Sabin (1821-81), Anglo-American bookseller]; Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati
Publication details: 
J. Sabin & Sons, Publishers, 84 Nassau Street, New York. 14 York Street, Covent Garden, London. 1873.
£250.00

All items octavo. All in good condition, on aged paper, bound together in heavily-worn contemporary half-calf. Ownership inscription of the art dealer Faris C. Pitt on front free endpaper. The various issues of the 'Catalogue of Books' vary in length from eight pages to twenty-eight.

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