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Associated People Beckford, William, 1760–1844

1. A catalogue of the collection of rare and estimable original drawings, antient & modern prints, and books of prints : which has been formed during the last thirty years by selections from the most renowned cabinets and collections in France, Italy, and England, and materially assisted by the great events which have occurred during that period on the continent : comprising fine productions of the Italian, Flemish, Dutch, French & British schools by Marc Antonio, Bonasone, Rembrandt, Sharpe, Wierix, Desnoyers, Goltzius, Earlom, Bartolozzi, Schiavonetti, Laugier, Browne, Heath, Strange, Woollett &c. &c. &c. : many of which are proofs, and all fine impressions : some choice specimens by Raphael Morghen : fine portraits and topographical prints : a numerous collection of English and foreign vignettes : among the books of prints are some curious and rare : also, a collection of prints, drawings, and books of prints, of a nobleman, who purchased them last season and did not pay for, or clear them : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Phillips, at his Great Room, 73, New Bond Street, on Monday, 1st of March, 1824, & three following days, at one o'clock : may now be viewed, and catalogues (at 1s. each) had at Mr. Phillip's, New Bond Street.

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Creator:: Phillips, H., -1840
Date:: [1824]
Physical Description:: 30 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Journal of a tour in Germany, Sweden, Russia, Poland, during the years 1813 and 1814 / by J.T. James, Esq. student of Christ Church, Oxford.

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Creator:: James, John Thomas, 1786–1828
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: viii, [4], 527, [1] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Magnificent effects at Fonthill Abbey, Wilts. : to be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, on the premises, on Tuesday, September 17, 1822, and eight following days (Sunday excepted) : beginning each day punctually at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1822]
Physical Description:: [2], iii, [2], 4-87, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Building towers, forming gardens : landscaping by Hamilton, Hoare and Beckford / Christopher Thacker.

Building towers, forming gardens : landscaping by Hamilton, Hoare and Beckford / Christopher Thacker.

Creator:: Thacker, Christopher
Date:: 2002
Physical Description:: 126 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

5. A catalogue of all the truly elegant household furniture, silver-gilt and silver plate : Oriental and modern porcelain : some pictures and drawings framed and glazed of William Beckford, Esq. of Fonthill : among the foregoing are a variety of superb cabinets of solid ebony, elaborately carved or lnlaid with Florentine Mosaics, and other costly materials, and mounted with or-moulu, in the finest taste : sumptuous cabinets of buhl cabinets, jewel chests, silver-gilt drawing-room large candlesticks, with branches by Auguste : three capital leaved screens of the finest Japan, scarcely to be matched : rose-wood bookcases : large Persia-pattern and other carpets in the nicest condition : a few pictures of the first quality and importance, the Sibylla Lyrica by Lod : Carracci from the Lansdown Cobbection : Job, by S. Rosa, from the Santa Croce Palace at Rome ... : the drawings are a grand set of landscapes in water colours by J. M. W. Turner ... and others, by Daniell, &c. : the plate comprises many thousand ounces of articles in the most modern taste, much of it very richly gilt, and several of the principal pieces executed by Auguste, from the designs of Moitte : mounted agates in cups : carvings in ivory : bronzes : fine Japan, and various objects of vertu : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, on the premises, no.6, Upper Harley Street, on Friday, May 9, 1817, & three following days, (Sunday excepted) : at one o'clock precisely.

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Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1807]
Physical Description:: 33, [1] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Views of Lansdown Towers, Bath : the favourite edifice of the late William Beckford, Esqr. / from drawings by Willes Maddox ; on stone by C.J. Richardson.

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Creator:: English, Edmund Francis
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: [vi], 10 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 64 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey / by John Rutter, Shaftesbury.

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Creator:: Rutter, John, 1796–1851
Date:: MDCCCXXII [1823]
Physical Description:: xxvi, 127, [1] pages, 13, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

8. A catalogue of the magnificent, rare, and valuable library, (of 20,000 volumes) : illustrated in many instances, with two and three sets of proof and other plates : generally of the most choice editions : selected with great care, and the utmost liberality, during the last forty years : also, of the books of prints, galleries of art, curious missals and manuscripts, the Persian and Chinese drawings, &c. &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Phillips, at the Abbey, on Tuesday, the 9th of September, 1823, and nine following days : on Friday, the 3d of October, & four following days : and on Thursday, 23d October, 1823, & four following days, (Sundays and Mondays excepted) : at half-past twelve each day precisely.

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Creator:: Phillips, H., -1840
Date:: [1823]
Physical Description:: [12],113, [4], [121]-175, [3], 291-342, [6], 231-278, [1], 176-222, [2], 343-391, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A catalogue of a most superb, capital, and valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures : the property of a Gentleman, highly distinguished for his taste in the arts : the whole selected with unbounded liberality, and now brought from his seat at Fonthill, in Wiltshire : consisting of inestimable works of the following great masters, viz : Spagnoletto, A. Durer, Sa. Rosa, Guido, Murillo, D. Feti, C. Lorrain, Seb. Bourdon, Canaletti, Zuccarelli, Rembrandt, Ostade, Wouvermans, Both, V. Der Heyde, C. du Jardin, Ruysdael, Wynants, De Vlieger, Polemborgh, Teniers, V. der Meulen, Webber, Loutherbeourg : among the celebrated pictures in this collection, are the following distinguished and capital : the Rape of Deianira, by Paduanino, one of the noblest efforts of genius in the Venetian School, both for colouring and design : the Holy Family, by Murillo, a very elegant composition, full of grace and simplicity : the Death of Socrates, by S. Rosa : a Landscape with St. Francis preaching : and a sea port by ditto : and Lucretia, by Guido, very capital : amongst the moderns, are eight capital and much distinguished pictures of the Rake's Progress, by the immoral Hogarth, esteemed the finest of his works : a pair of elegant and splendid cabinets, with the subjects of Cupid and Psyche, painted by Smirke : also four tripods, or exquisite workmanship : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Saturday, February the 27th 1802, at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1802]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The Hamilton Palace libraries. Catalogue of ... the Beckford Library, removed from Hamilton Palace ... sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ...

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Creator:: Beckford, William, 1760–1844
Date:: [1882-1883]
Physical Description:: 4 v. fronts. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts