The Hamilton Palace Collection. Illustrated Priced Catalogue.

Paris and London: Librairie de l'art and Remington and Co.. 1882.

290x215. [8], 243 [1]. pp. xiv adverts. Illustrated with black and white photograph and engravings. Original cloth, lettered and illustrated in black to upper cover and in gilt on the spine. Patterned endpapers. Some soiling to covers, bumping and wear to corners and to head and foot of spine. Internally very good but with some staining and foxing. Front pastedown and verso of front free endpaper have the book tickets of Foyles and the front free endpaper has the bookplate of Barry Humphries. Annotated throughout in a neat hand including, very helpfully, notes at the end explaining who some of the buyers are and the institutions for which they were buying. Also on one of the final advertisement pages, contemporary newspaper cuttings about the sale have been pasted in and loosely inserted. A nice copy of the official sale record of the auction of the Hamilton Palace collection.