Collecting. [Phillipps (Sir Thomas, compiler)], Catalogus Ma...

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Collecting. [Phillipps (Sir Thomas, compiler)], Catalogus Manuscriptorum in Bibliothecis Angliæ, Cambriæ, Scotiæ, et Hiberniæ, [Middle Hill Press], 1833-37, printed before the title on completion of the whole c. 1850, collating: 24pp, a catalogue of the manuscripts in the libraries of Samuel Butler (1774-1839), Headmaster of Shrewsbury School and Archdeacon of Derby, later Bishop of Lichfield; Robert Curzon (1810-1873), at Parham, Sussex; William Ormsby Gore (1779-1860), at Porkington [Brogyntyn], Oswestry, Shropshire; & Rev. Walter Sneyd (1809–1888), of Cheverels, Hertfordshire, disbound and uncut sheets as issued, formerly with H.P. Kraus, Rare Books and Manuscripts, New York, their envelope and label, folio; Sale Catalogue: The Perkins Library. To be Sold by Auction, In the Great Library at Hanworth Park, June 3rd, 1873, [by Messrs] Gadsden, Ellis & Co., ruled in puce and annotated with achieved prices, folding and full-page plates, original wrappers, spine perished, folio; A Catalogue of China, Chiefly Derby, of Enamels and other Paintings, &c., &c., the Property of John Haslem, of Derby, first edition, Derby: R. Keene, Printer, Iron Gate, 1879, black-ruled, photographically-illustrated by Richard Keene with 5 Woodburytype plates, extra-illustrated with a carte de visite of Haslem, verso with newspaper cutting of The Haslem Gift to Derby Art Gallery, contemporary green morocco gilt over cloth, some wear, 4to; another copy but in original wrappers, presentation copy from Haslem, disbound, 4to, (4) 

Provenance: 3rd: 1) John Twitchett, former curator of the Royal Crown Derby Museum; his label and loosely-inserted exhibition receipts; 2) The Rowland Williams British Ceramic Library; their label. 4th: E.M. Kidd, noted 19th c Nottingham collector; manuscript presentation inscription, addressed to him from John Haslem, Derby china and enamel painter.