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Title: Catalogue of the library of Charles Kean and Edmund Kean
Creator: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Date Created and/or Issued: 1898
Publication Information: Honnold Mudd Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Philbrick Library Collection of Theater Letters
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Honnold Mudd Library Special Collections at https://library.claremont.edu/scl/
Description: Materials consist of a copy of an auction catalog "of the library of the late Charles Kean," and "valuable autograph letters, engravings and relics, of his father Edmund Kean." Catalog includes a numbered list of items to be sold. Catalog notes that the materials belonged to Mrs. Mary Logie, Charles Kean's daughter, who functions as executor of the collection. Catalog states that Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge will be auctioneers for the event to be held at their house. The address is given. Catalog contains handwritten notations on various pages.
Type: text
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: phl00428
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/phl/id/2474
Language: English
Subject: Auction catalogs
Autographs
Engraving
Kean, Charles John, 1811?-1868
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833
Kean, Mary, 1779-1849
Letters
Relics
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. Catalogues of sales
Source: Reproduced catalogue, 12.5 x 11 inches: Philbrick Library of Dramatic Arts and Theatre History, Autograph letters box 9, folder 68; 50 pages
Relation: Philbrick Library Collection of Theater Letters - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/phl

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