First editions, autograph letters & relics of Lord Byron, first editions, original manuscripts of Charles Dickens; original drawings for Dickens; rare first editions of Tennyson; original drawings of Beardsley; Shakespeare Quartos & source books, books in beautiful bindings; early printed books
This is a 1925 New York auction catalogue from Anderson Galleries, offering rare first editions, Byron and Dickens manuscripts, Beardsley drawings and early printed books to private collectors. The picture is a title page for Luigi da Porto's 1539 Italian verse and prose, set in a framed architectural border of columns and hatched shading, showing how a Renaissance printer arranged capitals, spacing and centred lines within a column.
