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to the etchings or any of the text from the Groups in the descrip- tion. It was bought by Pickering for £ 92 8 s , again for Hanrott. He expanded the Tour to six volumes, bringing the number of drawings to thirty-one and adding numerous proofs and other plates, including Lewis’s etchings with his text to the etchings and his ‘remarks on his own Drawings and Dispute with Dr. Dibdin’. Uniformly bound in red morocco with a seventh volume con- taining related pamphlets, it was o V ered as lot 2412 (i.e., 2413) in the first part of Hanrott’s sale by Evans, 16–29 July 1833. The description noted that the ‘foundation of it was Mr. Hibbert’s copy’. It sold for £ 178 10 s to James Baker of Coleman Street who expanded it yet again to bring it to eight volumes. This copy appeared as lot 222 25 in Baker’s Sotheby & Wilkinson sale of 24 May 1855 and went for £ 168 to James Toovey who sold it to Henry Robert Westenra, third Baron Rossmore (1792–1860). It is now in the Wormsley Library, sadly lacking volume I, part I, but with the copy of ‘The following observations’ present. It was not recorded in Windle & Pippin. 26 3. joseph haslewood (1769–1833), Dibdin’s ‘Bernardo’, was closely associated with Dibdin and the Roxburghe Club, as was reflected in the sale of his library by Evans, 16–24 December 1833. His set of the Tour was lot 375, three volumes in four, bound by Lewis in red morocco, gilt leaves. Like Drury’s copy, it includ- ed the various pamphlets relating to the Tour as well as Lewis’s etchings and his ‘Remarks relative to his Drawings’. This copy almost certainly reappeared as lot 437 in the sale of George Henry Freeling’s library, conducted by Evans on 7–8 June 1842, when it sold for £ 15 15 s to Adams. It seems that the set went through at least one other collection before coming to its present home. 27 It now is in collections of the Austrian National Library and the 25 . The set included five letters from Dibdin, on one of which Baker commented that his letter to Dibdin ‘wishing to part with the work was a mere “ruse”’ (see Reminiscences , pp. 698–9, where Dibdin reprinted some of the correspondence). 26 . Windle & Pippin note that they recorded the Rabaiotti copies now in the Wormsley Library but were not able to examine other copies there at that time (Preface, p. xiv). 27 . A later description is in volume I, see p. 5 in http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/AC11868761.
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