![ARCHITECTURE - ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL Manuscript planning brief for work under the supervision of Inigo Jones, [c.1631]](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%252Flive%252F2025-10%252F16%252F25762965-1-1.jpg%26width%3D650&w=2400&q=75)
![ADVERTISING POSTERfor 'The Suffragette' newspaper, [c.1913-1914]](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%252Flive%252F2025-06%252F25%252F25680656-116-1.jpg%26width%3D650&w=2400&q=75)
![ILLUMINATED ADDRESS – CLARA CODD Illuminated printed address signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, [1909]](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%252Flive%252F2025-06%252F25%252F25680656-32-1.jpg%26width%3D650&w=2400&q=75)
![MUSIC & RECORDINGS – ETHEL SMYTH Collection of printed music, song sheets and records, [c.1911-1912]](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%252Flive%252F2025-10%252F09%252F25680656-99-1.jpg%26width%3D650&w=2400&q=75)
This auction has ended. View lot details
You may also be interested in
Lot 29
HODGSON & CO. BOOK AUCTIONEERS An extensive archive of business papers, printed matter, photographs and correspondence relating to the book auctioneering firm of Hodgson & Co. (1807-1981), largely dating from the period after the firm's move to Chancery Lane in 1863, 1860's to 1980's
11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £8,125 inc. premium
Looking for a similar item?
Our Books & Manuscripts specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialistAsk about this lot
HODGSON & CO. BOOK AUCTIONEERS
An extensive archive of business papers, printed matter, photographs and correspondence relating to the book auctioneering firm of Hodgson & Co. (1807-1981), largely dating from the period after the firm's move to Chancery Lane in 1863 comprising; a group of over 100 items of correspondence with vendors and booksellers such as Lord Wardington, The Earl of Halifax, Captain Massingberd of Ormsby Hall, Earl Beauchamp of Madresfield Court, Arthur Symonds, Leonard Huxley, EV Lucas, Sir John Lubbock, Hatchards, A.P. Watt & Son, Henry Sotheran, Quaritch, Maggs & Co. etc., documents concerning the discovery and sale in 1948 of a volume of nine Shakespeare Quartos dating from 1619, a number of letters and documents concerned with possible suspension of book auctions during the First World War (signed by Chatto, Maggs, Karslake and others, with Quaritch removing his signature on the grounds that auctioneers know their business best, and Hodgson's reply giving reasons to continue with sales), various financial papers including a sales book of 1901-8, list of monies owed by booksellers, an auctioneer's folder with 'no bid' list attached, lists of clients and their collections, lists of 'books viewed', typed instructions for cataloguing and work sheets, examples of printed stationery and printing blocks, manuscript plans and documents relating to the premises at Chancery Lane, a series of photographs showing the staff, the building, a sale in progress (with inscription "Reynolds in the pound, J.E.H. Thornton & Milward") and the centenary dinner of 1907, commemorative publications and menus produced for said centenary celebrations, some 50 sale catalogues, many annotated, dating from 1861 to 1981 (the majority 1930-60 but including some noteable sales such as the Strawberry Hill Press collection, 1902, Four Folio Shakespeares, 1948, and Early Books on Surgery and Medicine from Sion College, 1938), receipts and general household accounts, together with various legal and personal papers relating to the family, various sizes and bindings etc., 1860's to 1980's
Footnotes
BEHIND THE SCENES AT HODGSON'S CHANCERY LANE; offering a wide-ranging insight into the workings of the family firm of book auctioneers with material from many sides of the business. Occupying a central place in the London rare book trade for over a century and a half, Hodgson's first sale was held in Reading by the founder of the business Robert Saunders. In 1829 the firm was taken over by Edmund Hodgson who developed it into an increasingly prosperous concern over the next forty years and the business thrived under successive generations of the Hodgson family. In 1863 the firm moved into purpose-built premises at 115 Chancery Lane (now a French-themed cocktail bar) where it remained until the firm was taken over by Sotheby's in 1967. Sales continued to be held at Chancery Lane until 1981.