Lot 128
12 Volumes from the Library of Vincent Massey and Alice Parkin Massey, 19th/early 20th centuries
Lot 128 Details
12 Volumes from the Library of Vincent Massey and Alice Parkin Massey, 19th/early 20th centuries
each with bookplate and the owner's signature, including:
Leopold von Ranke. THE HISTORY OF THE POPES (Volume One) (London: George Bell and Sons, 1907), inscribed “Vincent Massey/Balliol/1912”
Rev. M. Creighton. LIFE OF SIMON DE MONTFORT (London: Longman’s Green, 1905) Inscribed “Vincent Massey/Balliol', Algernon Charles Swinburne. THREE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE (London: Harper and Brothers, 1909) Ownership inscription “C. Vincent Massey/1909”
Oscar Wilde. LADY WINDEMERE'S FAN (London: Methuen and Co., 1910) Inscribed “Vincent Massey/1911”,
Austin Dobson. PROVERBS IN PORCELAIN AND OTHER POEMS (Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1909) Ownership inscription “C. Vincent Massey/[19]09”
Hugh Law (introduction) BURKE'S SPEECHES AND LETTER ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS IN LONDON (London: Dent and Co., 1908) Ownership inscription “C. Vincent Massey/1909”
F. York Powell. HISTORY OF ENGLAND (London: Longmans Green and Co., 1908) Inscribed “Vincent Massey/Ball[iol] Coll[ege] / 1911'
John Robert Seeley. SHORT HISTORY OF NAPOLEON THE FIRST (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1909) Ownership inscription 'C. Vincent Massey/Univ[ersity] Coll[ege]/ Toronto, 1910'.
Arnold Bennett. HILDA LESSWAYS(London, Methuen, 1911) Ownership signature “Vincent Massey/1911” with Vincent Massey’s bookplate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. THE POETICAL WORKS (Boston: Houghton and Mifflin, 1899) Inscribed “Charles Vincent Massey from Grandma Denton/Christmas/1899”
Mary E. Coleridge. POEMS (London: Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street, 1908). With ownership signature “Alice, Jan. 1908”
Matthew Arnold ESSAYS IN CRITICISM First Series) (London: Macmillan, 1896) inscribed “Alice S. Parkin 1901”
Estimate $300-$400
