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The valuable library of books, in Fonthill abbey : A catalogue of the magnificent, rare, and valuable library, (of 20,000 volumes) illustrated, in many instances, with two and three sets of proof and other plates; generally of the most choice editions; selected with great care, and utmost liberality, during the last forty years; also, of the books of prints, galleries of art, curious missals and manuscripts, the Persian and Chinese drawings, &c. &c. &c. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Phillips, at the abbey... 1823
Beckford, William (1760-1844); Farquhar, John 19th cent; Phillips, H; Davy, John (1790-1868); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Clark, Kenneth (1903-1983); Houghton, W
1823
The sale was on behalf of John Farquhar, to whom Beckford had sold the house in 1822. The frontispiece includes a view of the house surrounded by the title 'A catalogue of the costly and interesting e...