Dawson Turner's original catalogue of his manuscripts. 1834.

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Dawson Turner's original catalogue of his manuscripts. 1834.

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Catalog of manuscripts in Dawson's library, written entirely in his hand. Possibly one of five items in lot 502 of Turner sale at Puttick & Simpson, 6 June 1859. Pasted sales slip not from that sale; perhaps a Sotheby's sale of the 1880's. "Of Turner's library of nearly eight thousand volumes, many were enriched by sketches, engravings inserted, autograph letters, and drawings and etchings by his wife and daughters. In this way he added two thousand drawings to a copy of 'Blomefield's History of Norfolk, ' expanding it to seventy volumes, and printing privately (Yarmouth, 1841, 8vo) a catalogue of these illustrations. His own interleaved copy of the 'Muscologiae Spicilegium, ' now in the British Museum Library, has carefully coloured sketches of the leaves of all the mosses mentioned, by Sir William Hooker. Most of his library, including the missals and 150 volumes of manuscripts and letters, was sold by auction in 1853; and the remainder, comprising forty thousand letters, besides other manuscripts, was similarly dispersed, after his death, in June 1859, realising more than 6,500l. A catalogue of the library, in two volumes, was printed at the time of the sale"--D.N.B. on CD-ROM.

1 v. (unpaged) ; 32 cm.

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