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BRITWELL COURT LIBRARY. Catalogue of Rare and Valuable Works from the Renowned Library. 28 parts in 5 vols. 1908-27. J. R. Abbey''s set
BRITWELL COURT LIBRARY. Catalogue of Rare and Valuable Works from the Renowned Library formerly at Britwell Court, Burnham, Bucks. 28 parts in 5 volumes. Plates. 4to, 1/2 brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, original wrappers bound in. (EHLS) London: Sotheby, 1908-27; New York: Anderson Galleries, 1917
- Notes: unusually comprehensive set from the library of j. r. abbey, with his bookplates and initialed and dated inventory numbers; either priced by hand, or with printed price lists bound in. In addition to the main sequence of 21 auction catalogues it includes those for the sales of 2 June 1908; 15 December 1908; 24 February 1910; 10 June 1914; 24 January 1917 (in New York, comprising duplicates from the Britwell collection of Americana acquired en bloc by Henry E. Huntington); 29 April 1918; and 27 July 1922. "The Britwell library as a collection of old English books [was] the greatest ever brought together by a private individual. In many respects it rivalled or even surpassed the British Museum"--De Ricci, page 113.
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