963 lots.

"A remarkable collection made during the past twenty-five years, covering the whole period of English literature from the authors of the sixteenth century to the present day, including rare editions of the works of Edmund Spenser, John Heywood, Robert Greene, Abraham Cowley, Chapman, Burton, Herbert, Killigrew, Gower, the fourth folio Shakespeare; many rare first editions of American authors, extra-illustrated books, private book-club publications, works on bibliography, and fine bindings; manuscripts of John Keats, Thackeray, Stevenson, Swinburne, Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Irving and Whitman; letters of Dr. Johnson, Lamb, Dickens, Tennyson, Hawthorne, Lowell, Longfellow, Whittier, and many others."

McKay, 6750

Place of sale: New York.

Dates of sale: December 1 and 2, 1909.