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ous owner for the perfection of the volumes. The description not- ed the presence of ‘a Statement by George Lewis, respecting the prices he charged for the Sketches and Drawings for this Work, Privately Printed’. It sold for £ 61 19 s to Joseph Lilly for the art collector Benjamin Godfrey Windus (1790–1867). In his sale by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 23–26 March 1868, it was lot 198 and went to Harvey for £ 240. An American collector, John A. Rice (1829–1888), acquired it. Two years later, the set appeared as lot 567 in Rice’s sale, 21 March 1870 by Bangs, Merwin & Co, when it sold for $1920 to Sabin. Although the copy was said to have been broken up, 31 it was o V ered as the G.H. Freeling-Eyton copy, lot 90 in a Christie’s (London) sale of 9 December 1976. It sold for £ 3700. 6. eyton had a second copy of the Tour , lot 490 in his 1848 sale: three volumes, large paper, uncut, with a copy of Lewis’s ‘Statement’ described as in the previous lot. It sold for £ 13 15 s to Sotheran; it is not located. 7. eyton also owned a third copy of Lewis’s ‘Statement’, bound with a large-paper copy of his Groups , listed as lot 499. The note is similar to that in lot 489. This copy sold for £ 1 11 s to Lilly; it is not located. 8. edward vernon utterson (1776–1856), Dibdin’s ‘Ulpian’ and ‘Palmerin’, had two Sotheby & Wilkinson sales, 19 April 1852 and 20 March 1857, with most of the Dibdin titles in the second sale. While Utterson had extra plates in his copy of the Tour (lot 406), he had a large-paper copy of Lewis’s Groups bound separate- ly in calf, gilt edges. O V ered as lot 977, with the note, ‘Inserted is a printed statement as to [the] conduct of Dr. Dibdin towards the talented artist (Geo. Lewis), whom he employed during his Picturesque and Bibliographical Tour on the Continent’, it sold to Lilly for £ 1 1 s . It is not located. 31 . Bernard Quaritch, ed., Contributions towards a Dictionary of English Book-Collectors (London, 1969), p. 235. I am grateful to Roland Folter for the information on the Rice sale.
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