Lots numbered 805-1236.

"Statesmen from the time of Henry VIII: earls of Northampton, Nottingham, Strafford, Sussex, Warwick; dukes of Northumberland and Suffolk; John Thurloe, Sir Robert Walpole, William Pitt, and others. Authors: Hawthorne, Pepys, Pope, Richardson, Rochester, Rossetti, Ruskin, Scott, Shelley, Steele, Sterne, Swift, Tennyson, Thackeray, Walpole, Watts, Wesley, White, Wordsworth, and others. Celebrities: Lord Nelson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, S. Francis de Sales, Sir Isaac Newton, Josiah Wedgwood, Bishop Gardiner, Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Ch. Wren, Anthony A'Wood and others. Celebrated women: duchesse de Nemours, Madame de Sevigné, Sarah Siddons, comtesse de la Suze, Tasso's "Leonora," Peg Woffington, and others. Composers and musicians: Paderewski, Paganini, Pleyel, Rossini, Saint Saens, Sarasate, Spohr, Verdi, Thomas, Wagner, and others. Shakespearean celebrities: earl of southampton, the "W.H." of Shakespeare's sonnets; Sir Thomas Lucy, the "Justice Shallow" of the "Merry wives of Windsor," and others."

McKay, 7630

Place of sale: New York.

Dates of sale: January 10 and 11, 1916.