Sales by Author, Title, Subject and Collection

This index is compiled from the sales reports published in every issue of The Book Collector. These reports have themselves been assembled principally from eye-witness accounts by our correspondents. It is therefore a record of context as much as of cost. Who was bidding against whom, what was sold afterwards, the cataloguing errors, extraordinary provenances, rarity considered objectively - so on and suchlike. Some account of this system can be found in The Price of Passion ( 2016-04).

Entries are differentiated between Author, Title, Subject and Collection. It should be noted, however, that in the case of most classical texts and many cartographers, the author is also the title.

When typing an author's name into the Search bar please do so either as Smith, John or as Smith or as John.

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Title Sales Category Sub Category Sale Price View PDF
Keats, John Author MS of the sonnet on the sale of Keats's love letters Subscribe
to View 		1952-02
Keats, John Author 4 lots of Keats's letters to his sister Fanny, together - Subscribe
to View 		1957-03
Keats, John Author Fragment of 'Otho the Great' Subscribe
to View 		1964-01
Keats, John Author Draft of 'On Receiving a Curious Shell' Subscribe
to View 		1968-03
Keats, John Author 16 lines from 'Isabella, or the Pot of Basil' Subscribe
to View 		1970-04
Keats, John Author Autograph of 'To Hope' Subscribe
to View 		1972-04
Keats, John Author Letter re 'Endymion' Subscribe
to View 		1975-02
Keats, John Author 'Poems' 1817, a presentation copy Subscribe
to View 		1985-02
Keats, John Author Death mask, which failed to sell 1986-03
Keats, John Author Autograph manuscript of 'To Hope', £5,800 in 1972 Subscribe
to View 		2001-04
Keats, John Author 'Poems' 1817 in boards Subscribe
to View 		2004-03
Keats, John Author Portrait in oils by Severn Subscribe
to View 		2005-04
Keats, John Author 'Poems' 1817 in original drab boards Subscribe
to View 		2006-01
Keats, John Author Love letter to Fanny Brawne Subscribe
to View 		2011-02
Keats, John Author 33 lines of 'I stood tiptoe on a little hill' Subscribe
to View 		2013-02
Keats, John Author Keats's copy of Tacitus 'Orationes Omnes' 1601 Subscribe
to View 		2014-03
Keats, John Book Title 'Poems' 1817 Subscribe
to View 		2008-04
Keats, John Book Title 'Poems' 1817 Subscribe
to View 		2010-04
Keats, John Book Title 'Poems' 1817 Subscribe
to View 		2016-03
Keats, John Author 'Endymion' 1818, the Bradley Martin copy Subscribe
to View 		2008-04
Keats, John Author Endymion 1818 Subscribe
to View 		2004-03
Keats, John Author 'Lamia' 1820 Subscribe
to View 		2004-03
Keats, John Author 'The marvellous letter to his brothers' April 1817 Subscribe
to View 		1972-04
Keats, John Author Wise production of 'Ode to a Nightingale' 1884 Subscribe
to View 		2014-03
Keats, John Author Isabella, bejewelled, the Leahy copy Subscribe
to View 		2023-01
Keats, John 1904 Author Chiswick Press, binding by Rivière Subscribe
to View 		1988-03
Keep the Aspidistra Flying 1936 Book Title 'In darkened and restored d.j.' Subscribe
to View 		2012-04
Keep the Aspidistra Flying [1936] Book Title Presentation copy to Orwell's landlord Subscribe
to View 		2017-02
Keere, Pieter van den Author 1622 world map Subscribe
to View 		2014-03
Keere, Pieter van den Author 'America' Subscribe
to View 		2014-03
Keith, Admiral, 1st Viscount Author Letters about an expedition to the Cape of Good Hope Subscribe
to View 		1994-04
Kelmscott Chaucer 1896 Book Title Inscribed by Morris 5 days before his death Subscribe
to View 		1953-01
Kelmscott Chaucer 1896 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1955-01
Kelmscott Chaucer 1896 Book Title Good copy in the usual half-holland binding Subscribe
to View 		1956-01
Kelmscott Chaucer 1896 Book Title Inscribed by Morris to Cobden-Sanderson and bound in Doves pigskin Subscribe
to View 		1978-04
Kelmscott Chaucer 1896 Book Title Paper copy Subscribe
to View 		1988-03
Kelmscott Chaucer 1896 Book Title On vellum, the Doheny copy Subscribe
to View 		1989-03
Kelmscott Chaucer 1896 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1996-01
Kelmscott Chaucer 1896 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2000-01
Kelmscott Chaucer 1896 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2000-03
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