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Lot 143

YATES (EDMUND)
Mr. Thackeray, Mr. Yates and the Garrick Club

23 May 2012, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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YATES (EDMUND)

Mr. Thackeray, Mr. Yates and the Garrick Club, the Wise counterfeit of the authentic original, with Dickens on page 14 correctly spelled, ex. Scribners catalogue 131 ('Nineteenth Century Pamphlets', item 54, $22.50), and envelope with description in John Carter's hand inserted, the Pariser copy (lot 365, £38), bought by Quaritch for Schimmel and with their collation note at end, sewed, cloth slipcase [Todd425c], 8vo, Taylor and Greening, 1859 [Richard Clay, c.1890]

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