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Shakespeariana: a catalogue of the valuable and select library of a gentleman, consisting chiefly of works in dramatic poetry, and miscellaneous literature: comprising valuable editions of the works of Shakespeare, including the ... which will be sold by auction by Mr. Wheatley, at his great room, 191, Piccadilly, on Thursday, May 25th, 1837, and three following days, (Sunday excepted), at one o'clock each day

by: Wheatley, Benjamin, author; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner. MB; Wheatley, Benjamin, publisher, auctioneer; Norman, G., printer

Publication date: 1837

Topics: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1614, Book auctions, Auction catalogs

Publisher: [London, England : Benjamin Wheatley]

Collection: bplsctpbs; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Spine title: Auction catalogs 1837

In English

First word of title transposed from head of title page

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound with: Catalogue of a valuable collection of books, the property of a gentleman, comprising, a rare selection of works printed during the fifteenth century ... / S. Leigh Sotheby & Co. 1837

Thomas Pennant Barton;

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy is included within a "bound-with" volume of various auction catalogs dating from 1837. Bound-with volume is half-bound in brown paper over boards and vellum. Spine includes a circular label at head reading "1974", and has spine title and table of contents in script (black ink). Front pastedown includes ex libris (bookplate) of the Barton Library, noting that the volume was received by the Boston Public Library in May, 1873, and listing both accessions and shelf number. Leaf opposite front pastedown includes handwritten table of contents, and an annotation at head-/fore-edge of leaf indicating volume "[f]rom Dawson Turner Collection"