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scribed by Windle & Pippin as the ‘Advertisement’ and as ‘a fold- ed sheet, unbound’. It in the Wormsley Library and is the earlier version of the text. 2 0. there is a copy of the ‘Advertisement’ preserved as a folded sheet, unsewn and unopened in the Landon/Korey collection. It was acquired in 1995 and is recorded in the ‘Addenda’ in Windle & Pippin. 2 1. then there is the copy owned by Robert S Pirie (1934– 2015). It appeared as part of lot 1064 in his sale by Sotheby’s, 2–4 December 2015. Disbound, with gilt edges, it was listed as the ‘Advertisement’, along with the o V print of the 1822 auction cat- alogue of the Lewis drawings, and two plates from the Tour (one, ‘The Halt of the Pilgrims’, is a proof before letters). 35 Laid in with these items is a letter of 27 April 1964 from William A. Jackson to John S. Van E. Kohn and Michael Papantonio, the proprietors of Seven Gables, returning the volume of the Dibdin Tour sent for his inspection. Jackson reported that he had made a description of the prospectus and stated that it was ‘in your hands’. He also pointed out the importance of the ‘Lewis little piece’. In the notes to Lewis’s Groups (item 56) Jackson wrote, ‘the only other copy we have traced is the J.H. Markland copy, bound with the Tour , now (1964) at the Seven Gables Book Shop’. 36 James Heywood Markland (1788–1864), Dibdin’s ‘Pamphilius’, sold a portion of his library through Sotheby & Wilkinson on 11 June 1859. There was a second sale on 29 May 1865 by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. In the first sale, lot 14 is an octavo copy of the Tour , bound in three volumes, russia extra, gilt edges, by Charles Lewis, with additional plates, including the ‘Halt of the Pilgrims’ in two states. The description stated: ‘In this copy are also bound up the original Prospectus with Autograph Note of the Author, 35 . ‘The Halt of the Pilgrims’ has the title and the names of the artist and engraver add- ed in pencil, but there is no imprint. Some areas have been touched up for additional engraving. The portrait of Charles Arbuthnot has been defaced. The sewing holes for the remarks and the o V print of the auction catalogue align. 36 . Jackson, p. 41.
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