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LOT 1974: Stuart family. An Extensive and interesting Collection of Portraits of Royal Personages of the House of Stuart, Statesmen, Naval, and Military Commanders and Clergy; Views of Cities, Towns, Castles, Churches, Ancient Buildings, Arms, curious initial letters, etc. with descriptions in MANUSCRIPT very neatly written, also sundry Miscellaneous Papers and Cuttings relating to the Stuart Family, mounted and arranged in 2 vols. blue morocco, gilt edges, and a parcel of MS. Papers and cutting sufficient to form an additional volume.
This curious collection, relative to the Stuarts, must have been the result of immense labour and enthusiastic feeling for the subject, nothing but the stimulus of ardent devotion could have accomplished the task. The whole comprises a collection of facts, historical and biographical, for which it would seem to have required a life's application merely to have read the volumes from whence the extracts have been obtained, to say nothing of the time required for transcription.
(It sold for 5p15s6d, or about £4,447.92 in today's money. A fifteenth century manuscript of Ambrosius sold in the same sale for 8 shillings 6 pence. By contrast, volume of tracts printed by Caxton went for an absolutely jaw-dropping £200.)
This curious collection, relative to the Stuarts, must have been the result of immense labour and enthusiastic feeling for the subject, nothing but the stimulus of ardent devotion could have accomplished the task. The whole comprises a collection of facts, historical and biographical, for which it would seem to have required a life's application merely to have read the volumes from whence the extracts have been obtained, to say nothing of the time required for transcription.
(It sold for 5p15s6d, or about £4,447.92 in today's money. A fifteenth century manuscript of Ambrosius sold in the same sale for 8 shillings 6 pence. By contrast, volume of tracts printed by Caxton went for an absolutely jaw-dropping £200.)