BECKFORD, William (1709-1770). The Valuable Library of Books, in Fonthill Abbey. A Catalogue ... (of 20,000 Volumes) ... which will be sold by auction by Mr. Phillips. London: Phillips, 1823. 8° (237 x 148mm). Engraved frontispiece, contemporary half russia, Beckford style cornerpieces, gilt edges (corners rubbed).
BECKFORD, William (1709-1770). The Valuable Library of Books, in Fonthill Abbey. A Catalogue ... (of 20,000 Volumes) ... which will be sold by auction by Mr. Phillips. London: Phillips, 1823. 8° (237 x 148mm). Engraved frontispiece, contemporary half russia, Beckford style cornerpieces, gilt edges (corners rubbed).

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BECKFORD, William (1709-1770). The Valuable Library of Books, in Fonthill Abbey. A Catalogue ... (of 20,000 Volumes) ... which will be sold by auction by Mr. Phillips. London: Phillips, 1823. 8° (237 x 148mm). Engraved frontispiece, contemporary half russia, Beckford style cornerpieces, gilt edges (corners rubbed).

HANSARD, James and Luke G. Biographical Memoir of Luke Hansard ... printer to the House of Commons. [London?]: Not published. James and Luke G. Hansard & Sons, 1829. 4° (305 x 235mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait. Contemporary hard-grained morocco gilt, gilt edges. With William Davis's A Journey round the Library of a Bibliomaniac (London, 1821) in original boards. According to a pencilled inscription 'L.P. only 50 printed'; Henry Cotton's A List of the Editions of the Bible (Oxford, 1821), presentation copy with inscription 'From the Author'; and Catalogue of the Works in Medicine and Natural History contained in the Radcliffe Library (Oxford, 1835). (5)

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