Catalogue of the valuable and important historical, topographical, and antiquarian, and ecclesiastical library of the eminent architect A.W. Pugin, Esq., (removed from his residence in Ramsgate)... : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, auctioneers of literary property and works illustrative of the fine arts, at their house, 3, Wellingon St., Strand,... on Thursday, January 27th, 1853, and two following days at one o'clock, precisely

Description

Printed by C. and J. Adlard, Bartholomew Close [London].


First item in a bound volume of 3 items.


Bound with: 2. [A. W. Pugin] Catalogue of the valuable collection of medieval carvings in oak, and other interesting objects of Art (J Davy and Sons, 1853; 3. [A. W. Pugin] Catalogue of the valuable collection of framed engravings, drawings, and paintings (J Davy and Sons, 1853).

Additional description

Bound with 2 other publications in a volume with spine title: sale catalogues A.W. Pugin 1853. Volume contents: 2 Catalogue of the valuable collection of Mediaeval carvings in oak and other interesting objects of art of the late eminent architect, A.W. Pugin, 1853. --3. Catalogue of the valuable collection of framed engravings, drawings, and paintings, of the late eminent architect, A.W. Pugin, 1853

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection J210: 1. A letter from Pugin to N Drury[?] please to show that [?] N. . [C?] over the[?] ch[???] & give him any information [? ? ?] pasted onto a front flyleaf ; 2. Printed obituary of Mr Pugin from a newspaper pasted onto the rear flyleaf; 3. Memoir of the late Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Esq., Architect, bound into rear flyleaves, pages 5-10; 4. Two printed announcements of the funeral of the late Mr Pugin, taken from Illustrated News, Sept 25 1852 pasted onto rear flyleaf; 5. A review extracted from the Art Journal of Pugin's 1851 work, A treatise on chancel screens and rood lofts; their antiquity, use, and symbolic signification, pasted onto a rear flyleaf; 6. A S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson bill dated 1853, Pugin's sale, addressed to J Crace Esq. listing some of his purchases from the sale; 7. A letter dated October 1894 noting in MS. that Mr John Parnell, Founder & President of the Kew Bee Literary Society bought several
Pugin letters.


Bindings


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection J210: modern [20th century] quarter calf, marbled paper over boards, gold tooled on spine.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection J210: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: CTC/22. MS. inscription on front flyleaf in pencil: R S Weel [?]. MS. annotation on front flyleaf in pencil, a quotation from E Bulmer Lytton, Last days of Pompeii: Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. MS. annotations from page 3 to 38 giving names of buyers and prices paid in ink with totals often in pencil. One of the names is Crace [ see Sotheby's bill below].

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