SYKES, MARK MASTERMAN. Catalogue of the Splendind, Curious and Extensive Library of the late... Part the First [to Third]... which will be sold by Auction, by Mr. Evans... May 11, 1824. [London, 1824]. 3 parts in one volume, 8vo, contemporary red straight-grain morocco gilt; g.e. PRICED WITH BUYERS' NAMES, in a contemporary hand, ruled in red. Engraved portrait frontispiece. De Ricci, pp. 95-96.

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SYKES, MARK MASTERMAN. Catalogue of the Splendind, Curious and Extensive Library of the late... Part the First [to Third]... which will be sold by Auction, by Mr. Evans... May 11, 1824. [London, 1824]. 3 parts in one volume, 8vo, contemporary red straight-grain morocco gilt; g.e. PRICED WITH BUYERS' NAMES, in a contemporary hand, ruled in red. Engraved portrait frontispiece. De Ricci, pp. 95-96.

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Bookplate of Baron Northwick.

Lot Essay

"A much lager library of the same general character had been formed by Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823), M.P., of Sledmere, Yorkshire; when sold by Evans it brought hardly more than the Watson Taylor collection. It contained a wonderful array of the finest incunabula, the Gutenberg Bible, the 1459 Psalter, the 1462 Bible, the 1469 Livy on vellum and other books of the same class. Sykes had also collected Elizabethan literature and secured some of the choicest items from the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica," De Ricci, pp. 95-96.

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