Between 5 November 1913 and 20 January 1916, there were five auctions transacted by Messrs. Hodgson & Co., at their rooms in Chancery Lane, London, in addition to the major one handled by Frank Hollings (see Appendix A), for the sale of most of Edward Dowden's literary eff ects. In all, descriptions of only 73 lots are listed here (abstracted from 146 pages of advertising) as a selection of content to complement the 904 lots in the Hollings sale. For the sake of economy, the editor has chosen to restrict the two appendices to monographs, omitting manuscripts, documents, letters, and artwork collected by Dowden as a professor at Trinity College, Dublin. All told, the firm's records at the British Library show that his Estate did well by liquidating these assets for his heirs—realizing something in the vicinity of L3,000, a princely sum in those days, according to the abstracts of sales in the Hodgson Papers (BL Add MS. 54613, 54614, 54619, and 54620, Accounts with Purchases of Books, etc., 1911-1924). Hodgson claimed a 12.5% commission for expenses.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1913

RARE OR EARLY EDITIONS OF VICTORIAN POETS AND WRITERS

1. Yeats (W.B.) Mosada, a Dramatic Poem, portrait of the author by J. B. Yeats, First Edition of the Author's first publication, Presentation Copy with inscription “Prof. Dowden, with the Author's Compts,” original wrapper Dublin 1886.

STANDARD EDITIONS OF ENGLISH CLASSICS, FROM CHAUCER TO WORDSWORTH,

1. Defoe (D.) Novels and Miscellaneous Works, portraits, 6 vols, 1854-6, System of Magic, History of Apparitions, &c. 5 vols, Oxford 1840-41, and 1 other 12 vols.

2. Blake (W.)—The Complaint and the Consolation; or Night Th oughts, by Edward Young, illustrated with43 designs by William Blake, Original Edition, with the Explanation of the Plates at end (the margins of 2 ll. repaired and 1 slightly frayed),folio, half morocco,t. e. g. fore and lower edges uncut, 1797.

3. Blake (W.)-Etchings from his Works, on India paper,by W. Bell Scott, with descriptive text, folio, boards,1878.

4. Blake (W.) Works, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, by E. J. Ellis and W. B. Yeats, portrait, and litho-plates and facsimiles large paper, 3 vols, imp. 8vo, half roan gilt, t. e. g. 1893.