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TWEEDMOUTH, Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, Lord -- Francis HARVEY. Catalogue of the Library at Brook House, Park Lane. Belonging to Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, Baronet of Guisachan, M.P. London: Privately Printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press, 1878.
2o (308 x 213 mm). Red half levant morocco, t.e.g., by Riviere (a little worn). Provenance: pencilled note on first blank: "F[rancis] H[arvey]'s copy," i.e. the compiler's; B.H. Breslauer (gift from E.W.G. Grieb, 1977).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 25 copies. This catalogue was not recorded by Anthony Lister ("Private Library Catalogues Printed at the Chiswick Press," Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, May, 1987), and there is no copy of it in the British Library. Francis Harvey, the compiler, was a book and print seller at 4, St. James's Street, London. The second Lord Tweedmouth, for many years an influencial member of various liberal governments, had to dispose of Brook House, and its contents, in 1904, due to financial circumstances.
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LIMITED EDITION, one of 25 copies. This catalogue was not recorded by Anthony Lister ("Private Library Catalogues Printed at the Chiswick Press," Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, May, 1987), and there is no copy of it in the British Library. Francis Harvey, the compiler, was a book and print seller at 4, St. James's Street, London. The second Lord Tweedmouth, for many years an influencial member of various liberal governments, had to dispose of Brook House, and its contents, in 1904, due to financial circumstances.