A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 : and the thirty-seven following days, at twelve o'clock, Sundays, and the 5th of June, (the day his Majesty's birth-day is kept) excepted : at her late dwelling-house, in privy-garden, Whitehall : by order of the acting executrix : to be viewed ten days preceding the sale
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John Lightfoot."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Frontispiece engraved by Charles Grignion; after Edward Francis Burney."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "At foot of title page: \"No.\", the actual number to be inserted in MS.; a variant is without \"No.\" at the foot of the titlepage."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "A price list entitled 'A marked catalogue containing the lots' was published in the same year."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Page 162 misnumbered 137."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Signatures: pi\u00e2\u0081\u00b4 A-2A\u00e2\u0081\u00b4."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "English short title catalogue, T28783"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Also available online."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Elecresource"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB has two copies of the issue with \"No.\" at foot of title page; both copies lacking frontispiece."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB copy 1 (39088006358667) with bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Bequest of S.Stillman Berry (gift of Clyde Roper). Property stamp on front pastedown."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB copy 1 with The authorship of the Portland Catalogue (1786), by S.P. Dance. London : William Clowes and Sons, [1962], which ascribes authorship to Rev. John Lightfoot."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB copy 1 stamped on front pastedown: J.I. American, ... Leicester; pencilled inscription on front pastedown: J.I. 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