KING, THOMAS, Jr., auctioneer. A collection of 48 sale catalogues of this London auction house, issued from October 17, 1788 to May 25, 1812, and comprising 4 catalogues issued by King & Chapman, 5 catalogues issued by King & Lochée, and 39 issued by King himself. London, 1788-1812. Together, 48 catalogues, 8vo, 43 of them bound in five volumes of old vellum-backed boards, uncut, 2 bound in contemporary half calf, one disbound (Steevens), one in original boards (John Maddison), and one folded as issued, dust-soiling to some leaves. (48)

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KING, THOMAS, Jr., auctioneer. A collection of 48 sale catalogues of this London auction house, issued from October 17, 1788 to May 25, 1812, and comprising 4 catalogues issued by King & Chapman, 5 catalogues issued by King & Lochée, and 39 issued by King himself. London, 1788-1812. Together, 48 catalogues, 8vo, 43 of them bound in five volumes of old vellum-backed boards, uncut, 2 bound in contemporary half calf, one disbound (Steevens), one in original boards (John Maddison), and one folded as issued, dust-soiling to some leaves. (48)

Lot Essay

Forty-three of the catalogues are of book auctions; five (including a large-paper copy) are of print and drawing sales; seven are partly priced or priced throughout with names of buyers. A number of the catalogues have the ownership inscription of a Mr. Lloyd of London. According to Horblit's notes, thirty-two of the book catalogues are not in List of Catalogues of English Book Sales 1676-1900 Now in the British Museum (London, 1915).

Consignors include: George Steevens (the first substantial Shakespeare collection to appear at auction, priced with some buyers' names), John Maddison, Pierrepoint Cromp, Edmund Tanner, Lord Foley, Colin MacFarquhar, Richard Phillips, Herbert Croft, John Manson, Thomas May, Leonard Pickard, the Marquis of Stafford, James Webb, Daniel Waldron, Thomas Towle, Thomas Allen, Thomas Wheeler, and Stafford Squire Baxter, etc.

A very extensive run of catalogues of what was perhaps the Swann Galleries of its day.

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