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18th Century Novel.- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters..., first edition, errata to verso of title, with pencil markings and annotations in code to much of the work, with some blank leaves bound in at end and manuscript note in ink concerning the author, also note at end in code and Latin on rear pastedown, foxed, ink signature "Glynne" and engraved bookplate of Munden House, Herts. to front pastedown, nineteenth century half calf, uncut, rubbed, spine rather worn, joints split, 8vo, for G.Kearsly, 1780.
*** Scarce novel by Sir Herbert Croft based on the murder of Martha Reay, an opera singer and mistress of Lord Sandwich, who was shot by a jealous lover James Hackman at Covent Garden in 1779. The manuscript note on the otherwise blank leaves identifies the author and attests that "...the letters and indeed the facts are apocryphal - tho' in the main founded on truth." Much of the work concerns literary forgeries particularly those of Thomas Chatterton who wrote the Thomas Rowley poems. Croft had fraudulently obtained letters relating to Chatterton from the poet's sister and was subsequently exposed by Robert Southey. In turn the novel is said to have inspired William Henry Ireland in his own Shakespeare forgeries. Intriguingly it is the passages concerning Chatterton which are marked and annotated in code.
The novel was published in several editions but the first edition is scarce with only 8 copies listed on ESTC (2 in the BL), and the only copy traced at auction being as long ago as 1931.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/0aa941db-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/a39b3a70-8f91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "184
18th Century Novel.- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters..., first edition, errata to verso of title, with pencil markings and annotations in code to much of the work, with some blank leaves bound in at end and manuscript note in ink concerning the author, also note at end in code and Latin on rear pastedown, foxed, ink signature \"Glynne\" and engraved bookplate of Munden House, Herts. to front pastedown, nineteenth century half calf, uncut, rubbed, spine rather worn, joints split, 8vo, for G.Kearsly, 1780.
*** Scarce novel by Sir Herbert Croft based on the murder of Martha Reay, an opera singer and mistress of Lord Sandwich, who was shot by a jealous lover James Hackman at Covent Garden in 1779. The manuscript note on the otherwise blank leaves identifies the author and attests that \"...the letters and indeed the facts are apocryphal - tho' in the main founded on truth.\" Much of the work concerns literary forgeries particularly those of Thomas Chatterton who wrote the Thomas Rowley poems. Croft had fraudulently obtained letters relating to Chatterton from the poet's sister and was subsequently exposed by Robert Southey. In turn the novel is said to have inspired William Henry Ireland in his own Shakespeare forgeries. Intriguingly it is the passages concerning Chatterton which are marked and annotated in code.
The novel was published in several editions but the first edition is scarce with only 8 copies listed on ESTC (2 in the BL), and the only copy traced at auction being as long ago as 1931.")
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18th Century Novel.- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters..., first edition, errata to verso of title, with pencil markings and annotations in code to much of the work, with some blank leaves bound in at end and manuscript note in ink concerning the author, also note at end in code and Latin on rear pastedown, foxed, ink signature "Glynne" and engraved bookplate of Munden House, Herts. to front pastedown, nineteenth century half calf, uncut, rubbed, spine rather worn, joints split, 8vo, for G.Kearsly, 1780.
*** Scarce novel by Sir Herbert Croft based on the murder of Martha Reay, an opera singer and mistress of Lord Sandwich, who was shot by a jealous lover James Hackman at Covent Garden in 1779. The manuscript note on the otherwise blank leaves identifies the author and attests that "...the letters and indeed the facts are apocryphal - tho' in the main founded on truth." Much of the work concerns literary forgeries particularly those of Thomas Chatterton who wrote the Thomas Rowley poems. Croft had fraudulently obtained letters relating to Chatterton from the poet's sister and was subsequently exposed by Robert Southey. In turn the novel is said to have inspired William Henry Ireland in his own Shakespeare forgeries. Intriguingly it is the passages concerning Chatterton which are marked and annotated in code.
The novel was published in several editions but the first edition is scarce with only 8 copies listed on ESTC (2 in the BL), and the only copy traced at auction being as long ago as 1931.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/0aa941db-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/ae9b3a70-8f91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "184
18th Century Novel.- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters..., first edition, errata to verso of title, with pencil markings and annotations in code to much of the work, with some blank leaves bound in at end and manuscript note in ink concerning the author, also note at end in code and Latin on rear pastedown, foxed, ink signature \"Glynne\" and engraved bookplate of Munden House, Herts. to front pastedown, nineteenth century half calf, uncut, rubbed, spine rather worn, joints split, 8vo, for G.Kearsly, 1780.
*** Scarce novel by Sir Herbert Croft based on the murder of Martha Reay, an opera singer and mistress of Lord Sandwich, who was shot by a jealous lover James Hackman at Covent Garden in 1779. The manuscript note on the otherwise blank leaves identifies the author and attests that \"...the letters and indeed the facts are apocryphal - tho' in the main founded on truth.\" Much of the work concerns literary forgeries particularly those of Thomas Chatterton who wrote the Thomas Rowley poems. Croft had fraudulently obtained letters relating to Chatterton from the poet's sister and was subsequently exposed by Robert Southey. In turn the novel is said to have inspired William Henry Ireland in his own Shakespeare forgeries. Intriguingly it is the passages concerning Chatterton which are marked and annotated in code.
The novel was published in several editions but the first edition is scarce with only 8 copies listed on ESTC (2 in the BL), and the only copy traced at auction being as long ago as 1931.")
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18th Century Novel.- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters..., first edition, errata to verso of title, with pencil markings and annotations in code to much of the work, with some blank leaves bound in at end and manuscript note in ink concerning the author, also note at end in code and Latin on rear pastedown, foxed, ink signature "Glynne" and engraved bookplate of Munden House, Herts. to front pastedown, nineteenth century half calf, uncut, rubbed, spine rather worn, joints split, 8vo, for G.Kearsly, 1780.
*** Scarce novel by Sir Herbert Croft based on the murder of Martha Reay, an opera singer and mistress of Lord Sandwich, who was shot by a jealous lover James Hackman at Covent Garden in 1779. The manuscript note on the otherwise blank leaves identifies the author and attests that "...the letters and indeed the facts are apocryphal - tho' in the main founded on truth." Much of the work concerns literary forgeries particularly those of Thomas Chatterton who wrote the Thomas Rowley poems. Croft had fraudulently obtained letters relating to Chatterton from the poet's sister and was subsequently exposed by Robert Southey. In turn the novel is said to have inspired William Henry Ireland in his own Shakespeare forgeries. Intriguingly it is the passages concerning Chatterton which are marked and annotated in code.
The novel was published in several editions but the first edition is scarce with only 8 copies listed on ESTC (2 in the BL), and the only copy traced at auction being as long ago as 1931.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/0aa941db-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/b99b3a70-8f91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "184
18th Century Novel.- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters..., first edition, errata to verso of title, with pencil markings and annotations in code to much of the work, with some blank leaves bound in at end and manuscript note in ink concerning the author, also note at end in code and Latin on rear pastedown, foxed, ink signature \"Glynne\" and engraved bookplate of Munden House, Herts. to front pastedown, nineteenth century half calf, uncut, rubbed, spine rather worn, joints split, 8vo, for G.Kearsly, 1780.
*** Scarce novel by Sir Herbert Croft based on the murder of Martha Reay, an opera singer and mistress of Lord Sandwich, who was shot by a jealous lover James Hackman at Covent Garden in 1779. The manuscript note on the otherwise blank leaves identifies the author and attests that \"...the letters and indeed the facts are apocryphal - tho' in the main founded on truth.\" Much of the work concerns literary forgeries particularly those of Thomas Chatterton who wrote the Thomas Rowley poems. Croft had fraudulently obtained letters relating to Chatterton from the poet's sister and was subsequently exposed by Robert Southey. In turn the novel is said to have inspired William Henry Ireland in his own Shakespeare forgeries. Intriguingly it is the passages concerning Chatterton which are marked and annotated in code.
The novel was published in several editions but the first edition is scarce with only 8 copies listed on ESTC (2 in the BL), and the only copy traced at auction being as long ago as 1931.")
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18th Century Novel.- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters..., first edition, errata to verso of title, with pencil markings and annotations in code to much of the work, with some blank leaves bound in at end and manuscript note in ink concerning the author, also note at end in code and Latin on rear pastedown, foxed, ink signature "Glynne" and engraved bookplate of Munden House, Herts. to front pastedown, nineteenth century half calf, uncut, rubbed, spine rather worn, joints split, 8vo, for G.Kearsly, 1780.
*** Scarce novel by Sir Herbert Croft based on the murder of Martha Reay, an opera singer and mistress of Lord Sandwich, who was shot by a jealous lover James Hackman at Covent Garden in 1779. The manuscript note on the otherwise blank leaves identifies the author and attests that "...the letters and indeed the facts are apocryphal - tho' in the main founded on truth." Much of the work concerns literary forgeries particularly those of Thomas Chatterton who wrote the Thomas Rowley poems. Croft had fraudulently obtained letters relating to Chatterton from the poet's sister and was subsequently exposed by Robert Southey. In turn the novel is said to have inspired William Henry Ireland in his own Shakespeare forgeries. Intriguingly it is the passages concerning Chatterton which are marked and annotated in code.
The novel was published in several editions but the first edition is scarce with only 8 copies listed on ESTC (2 in the BL), and the only copy traced at auction being as long ago as 1931.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/small/0aa941db-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/a39b3a70-8f91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "184
18th Century Novel.- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters..., first edition, errata to verso of title, with pencil markings and annotations in code to much of the work, with some blank leaves bound in at end and manuscript note in ink concerning the author, also note at end in code and Latin on rear pastedown, foxed, ink signature \"Glynne\" and engraved bookplate of Munden House, Herts. to front pastedown, nineteenth century half calf, uncut, rubbed, spine rather worn, joints split, 8vo, for G.Kearsly, 1780.
*** Scarce novel by Sir Herbert Croft based on the murder of Martha Reay, an opera singer and mistress of Lord Sandwich, who was shot by a jealous lover James Hackman at Covent Garden in 1779. The manuscript note on the otherwise blank leaves identifies the author and attests that \"...the letters and indeed the facts are apocryphal - tho' in the main founded on truth.\" Much of the work concerns literary forgeries particularly those of Thomas Chatterton who wrote the Thomas Rowley poems. Croft had fraudulently obtained letters relating to Chatterton from the poet's sister and was subsequently exposed by Robert Southey. In turn the novel is said to have inspired William Henry Ireland in his own Shakespeare forgeries. Intriguingly it is the passages concerning Chatterton which are marked and annotated in code.
The novel was published in several editions but the first edition is scarce with only 8 copies listed on ESTC (2 in the BL), and the only copy traced at auction being as long ago as 1931.")
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18th Century Novel.- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters..., first edition, errata to verso of title, with pencil markings and annotations in code to much of the work, with some blank leaves bound in at end and manuscript note in ink concerning the author, also note at end in code and Latin on rear pastedown, foxed, ink signature "Glynne" and engraved bookplate of Munden House, Herts. to front pastedown, nineteenth century half calf, uncut, rubbed, spine rather worn, joints split, 8vo, for G.Kearsly, 1780.
*** Scarce novel by Sir Herbert Croft based on the murder of Martha Reay, an opera singer and mistress of Lord Sandwich, who was shot by a jealous lover James Hackman at Covent Garden in 1779. The manuscript note on the otherwise blank leaves identifies the author and attests that "...the letters and indeed the facts are apocryphal - tho' in the main founded on truth." Much of the work concerns literary forgeries particularly those of Thomas Chatterton who wrote the Thomas Rowley poems. Croft had fraudulently obtained letters relating to Chatterton from the poet's sister and was subsequently exposed by Robert Southey. In turn the novel is said to have inspired William Henry Ireland in his own Shakespeare forgeries. Intriguingly it is the passages concerning Chatterton which are marked and annotated in code.
The novel was published in several editions but the first edition is scarce with only 8 copies listed on ESTC (2 in the BL), and the only copy traced at auction being as long ago as 1931.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/small/0aa941db-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/ae9b3a70-8f91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "184
18th Century Novel.- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters..., first edition, errata to verso of title, with pencil markings and annotations in code to much of the work, with some blank leaves bound in at end and manuscript note in ink concerning the author, also note at end in code and Latin on rear pastedown, foxed, ink signature \"Glynne\" and engraved bookplate of Munden House, Herts. to front pastedown, nineteenth century half calf, uncut, rubbed, spine rather worn, joints split, 8vo, for G.Kearsly, 1780.
*** Scarce novel by Sir Herbert Croft based on the murder of Martha Reay, an opera singer and mistress of Lord Sandwich, who was shot by a jealous lover James Hackman at Covent Garden in 1779. The manuscript note on the otherwise blank leaves identifies the author and attests that \"...the letters and indeed the facts are apocryphal - tho' in the main founded on truth.\" Much of the work concerns literary forgeries particularly those of Thomas Chatterton who wrote the Thomas Rowley poems. Croft had fraudulently obtained letters relating to Chatterton from the poet's sister and was subsequently exposed by Robert Southey. In turn the novel is said to have inspired William Henry Ireland in his own Shakespeare forgeries. Intriguingly it is the passages concerning Chatterton which are marked and annotated in code.
The novel was published in several editions but the first edition is scarce with only 8 copies listed on ESTC (2 in the BL), and the only copy traced at auction being as long ago as 1931.")
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18th Century Novel.- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters..., first edition, errata to verso of title, with pencil markings and annotations in code to much of the work, with some blank leaves bound in at end and manuscript note in ink concerning the author, also note at end in code and Latin on rear pastedown, foxed, ink signature "Glynne" and engraved bookplate of Munden House, Herts. to front pastedown, nineteenth century half calf, uncut, rubbed, spine rather worn, joints split, 8vo, for G.Kearsly, 1780.
*** Scarce novel by Sir Herbert Croft based on the murder of Martha Reay, an opera singer and mistress of Lord Sandwich, who was shot by a jealous lover James Hackman at Covent Garden in 1779. The manuscript note on the otherwise blank leaves identifies the author and attests that "...the letters and indeed the facts are apocryphal - tho' in the main founded on truth." Much of the work concerns literary forgeries particularly those of Thomas Chatterton who wrote the Thomas Rowley poems. Croft had fraudulently obtained letters relating to Chatterton from the poet's sister and was subsequently exposed by Robert Southey. In turn the novel is said to have inspired William Henry Ireland in his own Shakespeare forgeries. Intriguingly it is the passages concerning Chatterton which are marked and annotated in code.
The novel was published in several editions but the first edition is scarce with only 8 copies listed on ESTC (2 in the BL), and the only copy traced at auction being as long ago as 1931.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/small/0aa941db-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/b99b3a70-8f91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "184
18th Century Novel.- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters..., first edition, errata to verso of title, with pencil markings and annotations in code to much of the work, with some blank leaves bound in at end and manuscript note in ink concerning the author, also note at end in code and Latin on rear pastedown, foxed, ink signature \"Glynne\" and engraved bookplate of Munden House, Herts. to front pastedown, nineteenth century half calf, uncut, rubbed, spine rather worn, joints split, 8vo, for G.Kearsly, 1780.
*** Scarce novel by Sir Herbert Croft based on the murder of Martha Reay, an opera singer and mistress of Lord Sandwich, who was shot by a jealous lover James Hackman at Covent Garden in 1779. The manuscript note on the otherwise blank leaves identifies the author and attests that \"...the letters and indeed the facts are apocryphal - tho' in the main founded on truth.\" Much of the work concerns literary forgeries particularly those of Thomas Chatterton who wrote the Thomas Rowley poems. Croft had fraudulently obtained letters relating to Chatterton from the poet's sister and was subsequently exposed by Robert Southey. In turn the novel is said to have inspired William Henry Ireland in his own Shakespeare forgeries. Intriguingly it is the passages concerning Chatterton which are marked and annotated in code.
The novel was published in several editions but the first edition is scarce with only 8 copies listed on ESTC (2 in the BL), and the only copy traced at auction being as long ago as 1931.")
Lot 184
18th Century Novel.- Croft (Sir Herbert) Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters..., first edition, marked and annotated in code, later half calf, 8vo, for G.Kearsly, 1780.
Hammer Price: £1,500
Description
18th Century Novel.- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters..., first edition, errata to verso of title, with pencil markings and annotations in code to much of the work, with some blank leaves bound in at end and manuscript note in ink concerning the author, also note at end in code and Latin on rear pastedown, foxed, ink signature "Glynne" and engraved bookplate of Munden House, Herts. to front pastedown, nineteenth century half calf, uncut, rubbed, spine rather worn, joints split, 8vo, for G.Kearsly, 1780.
⁂ Scarce novel by Sir Herbert Croft based on the murder of Martha Reay, an opera singer and mistress of Lord Sandwich, who was shot by a jealous lover James Hackman at Covent Garden in 1779. The manuscript note on the otherwise blank leaves identifies the author and attests that "...the letters and indeed the facts are apocryphal - tho' in the main founded on truth." Much of the work concerns literary forgeries particularly those of Thomas Chatterton who wrote the Thomas Rowley poems. Croft had fraudulently obtained letters relating to Chatterton from the poet's sister and was subsequently exposed by Robert Southey. In turn the novel is said to have inspired William Henry Ireland in his own Shakespeare forgeries. Intriguingly it is the passages concerning Chatterton which are marked and annotated in code.
The novel was published in several editions but the first edition is scarce with only 8 copies listed on ESTC (2 in the BL), and the only copy traced at auction being as long ago as 1931.
Description
18th Century Novel.- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters..., first edition, errata to verso of title, with pencil markings and annotations in code to much of the work, with some blank leaves bound in at end and manuscript note in ink concerning the author, also note at end in code and Latin on rear pastedown, foxed, ink signature "Glynne" and engraved bookplate of Munden House, Herts. to front pastedown, nineteenth century half calf, uncut, rubbed, spine rather worn, joints split, 8vo, for G.Kearsly, 1780.
⁂ Scarce novel by Sir Herbert Croft based on the murder of Martha Reay, an opera singer and mistress of Lord Sandwich, who was shot by a jealous lover James Hackman at Covent Garden in 1779. The manuscript note on the otherwise blank leaves identifies the author and attests that "...the letters and indeed the facts are apocryphal - tho' in the main founded on truth." Much of the work concerns literary forgeries particularly those of Thomas Chatterton who wrote the Thomas Rowley poems. Croft had fraudulently obtained letters relating to Chatterton from the poet's sister and was subsequently exposed by Robert Southey. In turn the novel is said to have inspired William Henry Ireland in his own Shakespeare forgeries. Intriguingly it is the passages concerning Chatterton which are marked and annotated in code.
The novel was published in several editions but the first edition is scarce with only 8 copies listed on ESTC (2 in the BL), and the only copy traced at auction being as long ago as 1931.
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