585 lots.

"No. 6 of 1961-62"--Cover.

" ... comprising books and autograph letters sold on behalf of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, including Rowlandson's Loyal Volunteers, and an interesting holograph MS. by Walter Savage Landor. Fine books with coloured plates, collected editions of Restoration Dramatists, books on Mediaeval history and antiquities, the property of the Athenaeum. Also, the important music collection formed by Edward Holmes (dec'd.), of the firm of Walsh, Holmes & Co., Ltd., including a collection of music by Corelli, Geminiani, Handel, Vivaldi and others, published by James Walsh and bound in 7 volumes - Bickhams's Musical Entertainer - a set of the Trésor des Pianistes in 21 vols. - first editions of Beethoven, Couperin, Mozart, Schubert and others - facsmilies of autograph scores. Books on the history and theory of music, musical instruments, opera, theatre, etc. Collections of song books - musical miscellany, 6 vols., 1729 - Universal Harmony, 1745 - Calliope - engravings, portraits and play-bills relating to Madame Vestris and to the Vauxhall Gardens - an estensive collection of Victorian popular song and dance music. Interesting manuscripts and autograph letters, etc.

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: March 23 and 24, 1961.