From the Sale Catalogue of the Library of William Hazlitt, the Essayist.(Critical essay)

From: ANQ | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Volume one of A. N. L. Munby's Sale Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons reproduces a "Catalogue of an Important Selected Portion of Books, Manuscripts and Letters, collected by William Hazlitt, the Essayist, [...] his Son, the late Mr. Registrar Hazlitt, and his Grandson, Mr. W. C. Hazlitt." Pages 103-50 of the sale catalogue list 564 lots. A notice, preliminary to the title-page, signed "W. C. H.," that is, William Carew Hazlitt, deplores the necessity to sell "a portion of my Printed Books and all the Hazlitt, Lamb, and other MSS. which I have hitherto jealously ...

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