A catalogue of the collection of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford deceas'd ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Cock, at his house in the great piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 8th of March, 1741-2, and the five following days
An auction catalogue issued in London in 1742 by the auctioneer Christopher Cock for the sale of the collection of Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford, who died in 1741. The engraved title page, attributed in the record to George Vertue, presents the Harleian library as a learned and artful collection for prospective buyers. Its ornate frontispiece, with a central medallion, classical busts, books and urns arranged around an allegorical scene, offers a designer a dense model of eighteenth-century engraved symmetry and emblematic borders.
