Catalogue of the most valuable, interesting and highly important library of the late George Daniel ... : together with his collection of original drawings and engraved portraits of distinguished actors and actresses, beautiful water-colour drawings ... miscellaneous objects of art, interest & curiosity, beautiful pottery and porcelain of Chelsea manufacture, and other fine examples of art and vertu : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... at their house, no. 13, (late 3), Wellington Street, Strand, W.C. on Wednesday, the 20th of July, 1864, and nine following days, at one o'clock precisely : may be viewed two days previous, and catalogues had.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daniel, George, 1789-1864, owner.

Contributor:

Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, auctioneer, publisher.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

J. Davy & Sons, printer.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Daniel, George, 1789-1864--Library--Catalogs.

Daniel, George.

Rare books--Bibliography.

Rare books.

Portraits--Catalogs.

Portraits.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Catalogs.

Annotations (Provenance)

Prices (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

Chadwick, Elizabeth B. (autograph) (Furness copy)

Physical Description:

v, [1], 222 pages ; 26 cm

Manufacture:

[London] : J. Davy & Sons, printers, 137, Long Acre, [1864]

Place of Publication:

[London] : [Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge], [1864]

Local Notes:

Furness copy copiously annotated with manuscript prices in blue and black ink.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Furness copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from Alastor Rare Books.

Furness copy has dated 19th-century autograph ("Elizabeth B Chadwick. July /64") on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

Furness copy has portrait of George Daniel from an unidentified publication affixed to blank leaf preceding title leaf; newspaper clipping from The observer (9 May 1915) laid in; newspaper clipping headlined "Rare books for the nation" from The times (London, England; 16 April 1921; page 6) laid in; newspaper clipping headlined "'First folios.' An interesting discovery. A lecture on Shakespearian bibliography" from an unidentified publication of March 1898 (portion of article concerning the St. John's railway accident of 21 March 1898 on verso) laid in.

Furness copy: left board detached.

OCLC:

38674838