Particulars of Shakspeare's House at Stratford on Avon. For Sale by Auction by Mr. Robins... on Thursday Sep.tr 16 at 12 O'clock [title on upper cover], 16pp., 2 engraved illustrations (exterior and interior views of the house) on one plate, tears and frayed at fore-margin, prices realised added in pencil in an early hand, publisher's grey wrappers with lithographed title and 8 vignettes (4 portraits; 4 views) on upper cover, and ground plan of the house inside lower cover, rebacked with old paper spine, some tears and losses (affecting 3 vignettes at fore-margin; 5 holes to lower cover), 4to, Alfred Robins, [1847]

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The rare auction catalogue for the 1847 sale of Shakespeare's house at Stratford, "... the most unique relic amongst England's treasures... the most truly heart-stirring relic of a most glorious period, and of England's Immortal Bard" (blurb on title-page). With the support of Charles Dickens the house was "saved for the nation", being purchased for £3000 for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in the face of a threat by the great entrepreneur and showman P.G. Barnum to dismantle the building and ship it to America. This copy is annotated with pencil prices beside the 20 others lots in the sale, including beside lots 2 to 6 ("Visitors' Book of Autographs" for May 1821 to June 1845") a note "the five Books 70g/Bought by Mr. Butler", and beneath lot 8 ("a curious Tablet, with Portrait of Shakespeare") mention of a second tablet "not in catalogue".

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SHAKESPEARE - SALE CATALOGUE Particulars of Shakspeare's House at Stratford on Avon. For Sale by Auction by Mr. Robins... on Thursday Sep.tr 16 at 12 O'clock [title on upper cover], Alfred Robins, [1847]

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