Catalogue of the extensive and valuable library of the late Alderman William Booth (of Manchester), comprising about 10,000 volumes in nearly every department of literature, collected principally by the late Dr. Benjamin Whitham Booth, of Swinton : including early printed books, books privately printed, and of very limited impressions, jest books, works on witchcraft, sporting, angling, and natural history, celebrated trials, topographical books, and works of local interest, books printed in, or relating to, Scotland and the Northern counties of England (especially Newcastle-upon-Tyne), works relating to Charles I. and II., the Civil Wars, Mary Queen of Scots, and the rebellions of 1715 and 1745, fine illustrated books, Americana, Bewickiana, Cruikshankania, Shakespeariana, Facetiæ, &c. : also many scarce modern books, including the works of W. Harrison Ainsworth, Dr. Doran, William Howitt, Leigh Hunt, Mrs. Jameson, J.H. Jesse, Chas. Lamb, Miss Pardoe, Miss Strickland, Horace Walpole, &c. : the Publications of the Camden, Chetham, Hakluyt, Manx, and Percy Societies, and Abbotsford and Bannatyne Clubs, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Capes, Dunn, and Pilcher at their gallery, 8, Clarence Street, Manchester, on Monday, Feb. 18, 1884, and five following days, commencing at eleven o'clock precisely.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Capes, Dunn and Pilcher (Firm), issuing body, bookseller.

Contributor:

Booth, William, 1811-1883, other.

Sutton, R. H. (Richard Henry), 1852-1889, bookseller.

Day, T. J. (Thomas James), 1842-1899, bookseller.

Alexander Ireland & Co. (Manchester, England), printer.

Zachs-Adam Rare Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Auction catalogs.

Book auctions--England--Manchester.

Book auctions.

Penn Provenance:

Sargent, R. A. (inscription) (LIBRA Rare copy)

Halliwell, J. W. (inscription) (LIBRA Rare copy)

Physical Description:

[8], 193, [1] pages ; 25 cm

Distribution:

[Manchester] : [Capes, Dunn, and Pilcher] : R.H. Sutton, 130, Portland Street : T.J. Day, 53, Market Street.

Manufacture:

Manchester : Printed by A. Ireland & Co., Pall Mall.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Capes, Dunn, and Pilcher, [1884]

Notes:

Printer statement on verso of title leaf.

"Catalogues, price 2/6 each, can be had from the auctioneers; from R.H. Sutton, 130, Portland Street; or from T.J. Day, 53, Market Street."--Title leaf.

Local Notes:

LIBRA Rare copy annotated with prices in red ink and pencil.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Zachs-Adam Rare Book Fund.

LIBRA Rare copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Antiquates Fine & Rare Books.

LIBRA Rare copy has laid in paper slip with dated 20th-century manuscript note ("Report from RA Sargent : 23 Elmfield Rd : Gosforth : Newcastle 3 7/5/46 JW Halliwell : 3 Wesley St Royton, Oldham, Lancs Re Cleque (4th May) : Yr wants F.W. Krummacher : Elijah the Tishbite (vol. orig cloth : 8Vo : clean & good condition For 4/6 post free.") on recto and largely illegible manuscript note ("48 [...]osh[...] H. Do[...]") in pencil on verso.

LIBRA Rare copy: back wrapper bound in.

OCLC:

1385445545