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Undated, but circa 1937. Wrappers. Staples slightly rusted. From the library of Siegfried Sassoon, with the "SS" monogram book-label. "This number of Piccadilly Notes Is dedicated to the Memory of John Harrison Stonehouse Managing-Director of Henry Sotheran Limited who died August 27th, 1937". Features his "Adventures in Bookselling: The Migrations of Gould's Birds and the Dangers which beset them", plus a catalogue of (mainly) plates and drawings for sale, 1880 items - ending with six autograph letters to John Gould from Edward Lear, 10s-£3 3s. "John Harrison Stonehouse [born 1864] began his career by spending five years at sea," recorded his Times obituary. "He decided, however, to get a situation on shore and for a year or two was at Smith's bookstalls at Birmingham and Bedford. He then entered the employment of Sotherans at 36, Piccadilly, and after five years probationership was given a wage of 30s. a week, upon which [in 1891] he got married. He always considered the most important transaction with which he was concerned was, when as a young man in 1892, he superintended the transfer of the famous Spencer Library, which his firm had bought for £225,000 on behalf of Mrs. Rylands, from Althorp to Manchester. This necessitated the packing of over 40,000 volumes in 600 cases. Among the more precious items were a collection of Block Books, printed before the invention of movable type, copies of the Bamberg and Mazarin Bibles, and a vellum copy of the Fust and Schoeffer Psalter of 1457; 58 Caxtons, three of which were unique, and copies of the Four Folio Shakespeares and the Sonnets of 1609. All these treasures were preserved in the 'Old Book Room,' a room which by a rule in the house no one in any circumstances was allowed to enter alone.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 33M100572
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