a dibdin rarity
14 & 15. william wheeler smith (d. 1908), a New York collector and member of the Grolier Club, had a substantial collection of Dibdin, o V ered in his Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge sale, 13 December 1909. There were two copies in the sale, both listed as Lewis’s ‘Observations’. Lot 391 in half morocco, imperial 8vo, has the note, ‘only a few copies printed and afterwards sup- pressed’. Lot 393, bound with Lewis’s text to the Groups in half morocco, royal 8vo, has the description: ‘The Observations were intended to accompany the third part of the “Groups,” but were suppressed, and are now rare’. Neither of these copies is located. 1 6. james f. hunnewell owned an extra-illustrated copy of the Tour with the ‘Advertisement’ bound in. His Dibdin collection was presented to Harvard in 1942. This is the copy described by Jackson in his note to item 56 and is listed in Windle & Pippin. 1 7. a copy of the ‘Advertisement’ most likely preserved by Lewis himself made its way into the collection Major John Roland Abbey (1896–1969), along with some of the correspondence between Dibdin and Lewis and Lewis’s annotated copy of the o V print of the 1822 auction catalogue. These were sold on 14 November 1966 as lot 867, in the second portion of the Abbey sale by Sotheby & Co., where the statement is described as ‘a copy of Lewis’s privately printed version of their dispute about payment’. According to Windle & Pippin, it is ‘as issued, unsewn, untrimmed’. It is in the collection of William P. Barlow Jr. 1 8. windle & pippin list a copy bound in an 8vo set of Lewis’s Groups in original parts. The ‘Advertisement’ is in part II of the set, following the title-page and other preliminary text. It is in the collection of John Priddy who also has a quarto set of the Groups in original parts, with the preliminary text divided between parts II and III. On the wrappers, Lewis used ‘ A Series of Etchings, Pourtraying ’ as the first part of the title but revised it to ‘ A Series of Groups, Illustrating ’ for the printed title.
19. renato rabaiotti had a second copy of Lewis’s remarks, de-
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