A catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of The Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased: which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday, the 24th of April 1786 ...

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Title: A catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of The Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased: which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday, the 24th of April 1786 ...
Creator: Skinner and Co. (London, England)
Published / Created: [1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Catalogues may now be had on the premises, and of Mr. Skinner and Co ...
Description: Signatures: pi⁴, A-2A⁴.
At foot of titlepage: "No.", the actual number to be inserted in MS.; a variant is without "No." at the foot of the titlepage.
LWL 49 3902: With "No." on t.p. with "753" in ms. 2000 catalogues were sold before the sale began.
LWL 49 3902: Horace Walpole's copy with his annotations, including a four-page, signed letter providing a history of the collection.
Original marbled boards with calf back, now rebacked. Large Strawberry Hill fleuron used as Bookplate, and fleuron from Anecdotes at end. Press-mark X.7. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day vii, lot 32, to H.G. Bohn for William Beckford, £1.6.0 [London, 1156], Sotheby's, 6 July 1882 (Beckford Sale, Part 1), lot 1675, to Jefferies for Spencer George Perceval, £5.5.0; Hodgson's, 27 October 1927 (Miscellaneous Sale), to Maggs; offered by Maggs in Catalogues 505 and 536 (1928-30) for £125. Maggs to W.S. Lewis; August 1931,
Extent: viii, [1], 4-194 p., [1] leaf of plates : 26 cm. (4vo)
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 49 3902

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Catalogs
Early works to 1800
Auction catalogues England London 1786
Material: ill. ;
Subject (Geographic): England
London
Subject (Name): Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785
Subject (Topic): Library
Catalogs, Booksellers'
Subjects: Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785 > Library > Catalogs
Catalogs, Booksellers' > England > London > Early works to 1800
England > London > 1786
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. annotations

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 1767549
Object ID (OID): 16645812