evans thomas robert harding (9 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. paberback, 496 pages. Good Condition. Facsimile reprint of the original, London 1851. Gewicht: 710.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Third edition. London: Privately printed, 1810. In original green stamped cloth. 4 volumes. Scarce. Good, quite crisp and square. Some wear at head and heel and left side of spine of volume 1. Hinges are starting but sound. Paper and text are very good. EVANS, THOMAS (1742?1784), bookseller, was born in 1742. He opened a shop in the Strand, where he published a quantity of works on English literature and antiquities, many edited by himself. His chief literary undertaking was an excellent collection of old ballads, of which a third edition was revised and published by his son, R. H. Evans. With Mervyn Marshall heraldic bookplate (Charles Hall Crouch collection of heraldic bookplates at the Society of Antiquaries of London.) And the modern bookplate of George Clinton Fairchild Williams (1857 ? 1933) an American medical doctor, genealogist, and historian who served as president of the Connecticut Historical Society from 1919 to 1922 and 1926 to 1934. Due to size or weight, this item may require additional postage for international or priority shipping.

The last eight leaves only of a printed catalogue (no. 260 in M. V. de Chantilly's 'Robert Harding Evans of Pall Mall | auction catalogues 1812-1846 | a provisional list' (2002)). Stitched and unbound. On aged and worn paper, with slight damp staining to margins. Paginated 23-37 + [1], with the final page (i.e. the verso of the last leaf) carrying the advertisement: 'Preparing for Sale by MR. EVANS. | THE VALUABLE LIBRARY of an | EMINENT COLLECTOR.' (in manuscript: 'Mr Rennie'). Slug at foot of p.37: 'London: Printed by W. Nicol, | Cleveland-row, St. James's.' First page headed in Phillipps's hand: 'Ord MSS. Catalogue', with 'Sir T Phillipps sale' in another hand in pencil at the foot of the page. P.23 begins with lot 469 and the final lot of the sale, on p.37, is 618. After lot 510 on p.24 is the heading 'MANUSCRIPTS, VARIOUS SIZES'. All the lots are priced in manuscript, and the manuscripts in the sale (lots 511-618) are also named, in another hand than Phillipps's. Phillipps has written 'P' beside each of the lots which he acquired, and he reveals himself to be purchaser of 86 of the 109 (including 108*) manuscript lots in the sale, at an enormous total cost of £1983 16s 0d. These purchases were all made indirectly: most of the lots are recorded (in the second hand) as having been bought by four London booksellers: Cochran, Thorpe, Payne (of Payne and Foss), and Rodd. The British Museum ('The Museum') is given as purchaser of lots 535 and 561 ('Registrum de Bury (Tempore Edwarde III.) on vellum', £126 0s 0d). The purchaser of lot 524 is 'Duke of Norfolk', and lot 655 is said to have been bought 'By the Family who now possess the estate'. Beside this last note Phillipps has written 'bought | March Phillipps'. Phillipps has written 'query' beside lot 526.