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the Observations of G. Lewis on his Claims for Remuneration, and the Sale Catalogue of the Original Drawings’. It sold for £ 8 8 s to Lilly. Where this copy may have been for more than a hundred years before it surfaced at Seven Gables is unknown. However, at the end of his notes for the Tour (item 48) Jackson stated: ‘A prospectus of this book is at Harvard (Jackson, the kind gift of John S. Van E. Kohn and Michael Papantonio and the only one the compiler has seen)’. 37 If this came from the Markland copy, perhaps the ‘Lewis little piece’ and the sale catalogue of the drawings did as well to fill a gap in Mr. Pirie’s collection. The Markland-Pirie copy is the first version of the text. It is now in the Landon/Korey collection. When it was compared with the other copy here, the di V erences between the two became apparent. Postscript: Some time after this article was completed, I saw a copy of Lewis’s statement not reflected in the above list. It is the second issue and is bound with Lewis’s Series of Groups in contemporary calf. The volume bears the circular bookplate of Max Salomon but no signs of earlier provenance. The copy was in the stock of James Cummins Bookseller in 2017. It is now in the collection of William P. Barlow Jr. The total of located copies is now twelve, six of each issue.
37 . Jackson, p. 37.
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