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Lot 240•,W

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE
Catalogue of the valuable Library of T.G. Arthur... Carrick House, Ayr, N.B.

23 May 2012, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Footnotes

The second item seems to be the only surviving copy of the Wise house sale. Lot 173 (bought by Pickering & Chatto) turned out to contain stolen leaves from the British library. See Arthur Freeman's note in the TLS, 17 September 1982.

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