LADY BURDETT-COUTTS.
SALE OF VALUABLE LIBRARY. LONDON. May 1.5. At the sale* of the* late Baroness Burdett Ceiutts’s library, a famous Daniel lirst folio Shakespeare, originally bought by the* Baroness for £716, fetched £BOOO. Another lirst folio, bought 150 years age, for four guineas, fetched £s,4'>v. Doctor Rosebeae-h, an American dcale-r purchased both. LONDON, May 15. At the sale of the late Baroness Bur- , dett-Coutts’s books the- manuscript of I Dickens’s ‘‘Haunted Man,” with an ’ autograph presentation inscription to Miss Burdett-Coutts, was sold to an American, Mr Roseback, for £3700.
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Grey River Argus, 18 May 1922, Page 6
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