Details

Subject(s)

• Rare books—Catalogs [Browse]
• Manuscripts—Catalogs [Browse]
• Engraving—Private collections [Browse]
• Art—Private collections [Browse]
• Art objects—Private collections [Browse]

Donor

• Morgan, Junius Spencer [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Catalogs [Browse]

Biographical/​Historical note

Sold by George Robins, the auctioneer. The sale was advertised to occupy twenty-four days, from April 25th to May 21st. The catalogue was badly compiled, and so much dissatisfaction was expressed at the intention of selling some of the collections en masse, that the contents of the seventh and eighth days' sale, which consisted of prints, drawings and illustrated books, were withdrawn, recatalogued, and disposed of at a sale at Robins's rooms at Covent Garden, which lasted from the 13th to the 23rd of June. The amount realized at the sale at Strawberry Hill was £29,612, and at that in London, £3,837. The library, consisting of books, manuscripts, prints, etc., sold for about £7,740. Cf. Fletcher, English book collectors, p. 214.

Notes

• Engraved t.-p.
• Princeton copy 2 Ex copies 2 and 3 are priced in manuscript, with names, on most items.
• Princeton copy 3 Ex copies 2 and 3 are priced in manuscript, with names, on most items.
• Princeton copy 1 Ex copy 1 is bound with: Gooseberry Hall, the renowned seat of Sir Hildebrod Gooseberry / [by Thomas Croker]. -- [London : s.n., 1842].
• Princeton copy 1 Ex copy 1 is Variant J in Morritt's list.
• Princeton copy 1 Ex copy 1 is J. S. Morgan's copy.
• Princeton copy 1 Ex copy 1 in marbled boards and endpapers, with spine title: Strawberry Hill Catalogue. 26 cm.
• Princeton copy 2 Ex copy 2 in boards with paper label. 31 cm.
• Princeton copy 3 Ex copy 3 in limp boards with paper label. 26 cm.

Other title(s)

Strawberry Hill, Catalogue of the classic contents of.

LCCN

14004627

OCLC

2003174

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