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scarce and exceedingly tart eight page “Advertisement” subse- quently suppressed, respecting the “little unpleasantness between Mr. Lewis and the Author of the Tour” ’. It was not known to Windle & Pippin and is not located. 1 2. john whitefoord mackenzie (1794–1884) was a solicitor and collector known for his literary and antiquarian interests. Dibdin visited him in Edinburgh during his northern tour and wrote: ‘His library is a sort of Book-Nest – everything being so cunningly wrought and so curiously dovetailed. It is unambitious, but it has an air of attic elegance’. 33 Mackenzie’s library was sold in Edinburgh by T. Chapman & Son in two sales: 24 March and 27 April 1886. The first part listed some thirty lots of Dibdin’s works and related material, including a large-paper copy of Lewis’s Groups , bound in quarter morocco. Although not mentioned in the catalogue description of the Groups (it was lot 2156), the ‘Advertisement’ is bound in the volume. It now is in the collec- tion of James Cummins. It is not in Windle & Pippin. 1 3. jackson knew of but never saw an extra-illustrated copy of the Tour , sold by the Anderson Auction Company early in the 20th century. 34 This appeared in sale 652, 6–7 April 1908, includ- ing the library of John D. Elwell and other property. It was lot 168, contemporary half vellum, uncut, described as ‘The choice Crawford copy’, containing the etchings from Lewis’s Groups and his ‘eight-page “Advertisement” of the same. Numerous neatly written marginal notes by the bibliomaniacal collector James Roche’. Crawford was William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, County Cork (1815?–1888), whose library was sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge on 12 March 1891. In that sale, the set was lot 978 but the description does not mention the Lewis advertisement. It went to Sotheran for £ 11 10s. The ‘bibliomani- acal’ collector may refer to James Roche (1770–1853) of Cork. It is noted but not located by Windle & Pippin. 33 . Thomas Frognall Dibdin, A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland (London, 1838), p. 619. 34 . Jackson mentioned it in his letter to the proprietors of Seven Gables (see copy 21).
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