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

[Duplicat] Quarto: 154 pp. Around a dozen fold-out plates. In original light-green printed wraps. Internally very good; in worn, creased and stained wraps. A splendid production, printed in red and black on thick laid watermarked paper. With note, in red ink, on tipped-in slip, beginning 'The Government paper restictions forbid anything save the following very brief descriptions.' In red ink at foot of title: 'The whole of the contents of this catalogue are entirely free from duty'. Includes 'a superb collection' of Byron manuscripts, including 'the original manuscript of one of his most famous poems', and the original manuscripts of Cowper's translations from Homer, the latter priced at £1250. Also 'A unique collection of very precious original letters and documents' of 'Michel Angelo, his friends and patrons' (£500). Also manuscripts by Disraeli, Constable, Swinburne, Gluck, Gounod, Schubert, Pollajuolo.