Books and readers - Book collectors - Britain - 18C

Lot Comprises:

Richard Porson, 1759-1808

Paul G. Naiditch, The Library of Richard Porson, [Bloomington, Ind.?], XLibris, 2011, 4to., publisher's grey cloth, dust jacket

Sir Hans Sloane, 1660-1753

Alison Walker, Arthur MacGregor & Michael Hunter, From Books to Bezoars: Sir Hans Sloane and his Collections, London, British Library, 2012, 4to., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket

Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl Dysart, 1708-1770

Sotheby & Co., Catalogue of the renowned library removed from Ham House, Surrey, and sold by order of the Buckminster Estates, London, 30-31 May 1838 - - … The second and final portion, London, 20-21 June 1938, 2 vols.

Horace Walpole, 1717-1797

Wilmarth S. Lewis, Horace Walpole's Library, The Sandars Lectures 1957, Cambridge, University Press, 1958, 4to., publisher's brown cloth backed by black cloth spine, dust jacket, edition limited to 750 copies, inscription from author to "Mr. & Mrs. Charles Osgoods, from their cousin, December 1957"

Sold as a group, not subject to return.