[Frank Sabin, leading bookseller in his time] Autograph Quotation of Eleven Manuscript items by W.M. Thackeray
Is it missing a covering note to the client? Four pages, 8vo, bifolium, text clear and complete, some staining and small closed tears. Eleven Autograph Letters AND Manuscripts. With prices. See Images for full text. ITEM 1: ALS, 2 Nov. [1839] re. story published in the Comic Almanack, quotation not found (Googlebooks); ITEM 2: ALS, 11 Aug. [1839] quotation found (Googlebooks: Library of the Late Major William H. Lambert of Philadelphia ...); ITEM 3: A Note to the engraver (not found on Googlebooks); ITEM 4: A Note to Kenny (not found on Googlebooks); ITEM 5: Note (in Ray); ITEM 6: The Complete original manuscript of a lecture [...] Sabin unsure whether published, describing the source as an old friend (no text on Google apparently); ITEM 7: Note [..] I am going to confiscate an American Rocking Chair [...] (Anderson Galleries, 1922; Ray); ITEM 8: ALS, If you are not welcome to anything I have what gratitude [... ]"Of Barmecide Victuals (not found on Googlebooks); ITEM 9: 14 closely written lines of the original manuscript of the Newcomes, commencing 'Clive and his Father had found not only a model friend in the lady &c&c&c (as printed); ITEM 10: 6 lines of Mss for the Virginians varying I think from the ['original' excised] published version (I have not had the opportunity of comparing); ITEM 11: 27 Lines of the original MS. of 'Pendennis' (closely written with an original sketch on the back[...]. SEE IMAGES for full text inc. prices asked. Note: A. I have compared the handwriting to that of signed letters by Sabin. B. Firm founded in late XIXc by Frank Sabin. Dealers in sporting, English colour prints, botanical London topographical views, marine, caricatures, British contemporary artists. But also books and manuscripts!