[Auction Catalogues] The W. H. Bruton Collections. Catalogue of the very choice collections of printed books, autograph letters and book illustrations, also drawings by Thomas Rowlandson : the property of the late Henry William Bruton, Esq., Bewick House, Gloucester . . . including one of the finest known copies of The Pickwick Papers . . . very fine unpublished drawings . . . by Thomas Rowlandson . . . books illustrated by George Cruikshank . . . ; [with] frontispiece to Roland’s Comic Songs by Cruikshank; [and with] The Chignon, etching by Cruikshank.
London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1921. Limited Edition. Half-Morocco. Large Paper copies, each number 3 of 125 sets of which 60 were for sale, with printed prices and buyer’s names. Complete in two volumes (Printed Books and Old Engravings). Royal 8vo (277 x 182mm): [2],iv,62,[2],vii,[1], with portrait frontispiece and twelve..... more