Envelope addressed to Alban Dobson dated 1967; includes an illustrated New Year's card and an invitation, both illustrated by Thomson; and a card from Dobson inviting Thomson to dine accompanied by an autograph poem.

Autograph manuscript bound in blue wrappers. Handwritten label by Alban Dobson identifies publication first in The National Review , April 1920 and reprinted in Dobson's Later Essays, 1917-1920 (1921).

Autograph manuscript bound in blue paper wrappers of Dobson's entries for the Bewick family of engravers (Thomas Bewick, Jane Bewick, John Bewick and Robert E. Bewick) for the Dictionary of National Biography .

Autograph manuscript fragments. Includes a handwritten note by Alban Dobson that describes the material as "odd scraps of manuscript matter" of The Bookman's Budget intended for a second edition. The note further indicates that "a second impression of the BB came into [sic] without AD being warned (it was war time); & so the extra matter was included in Later Essays as a Casual Causerie ."

Consists of several hundred manuscript slips in Austin Dobson's hand cataloging the contents of his library. A 1952 note by Alban Dobson reads: "The attached sheets came to me under the will of the late Miss M[ildred] E[aton] Dobson (1952) and represent an attempt by Austin Dobson to prepare a catalogue of his own Library. Attached to the sheets is a proof of a page from the contemplated catalogue which never materialized. Also attached is a letter from the American collection C. B. Foote who was evidently good for 20 copies..." One of the page proofs is heavily corrected in Austin Dobson's hand.

Dobson's autograph manuscript bound in blue paper wrappers. Introduction to Dobson's 1891 edition of Goldsmith's Citizen of the World published by J. M. Dent with etchings by Herbert Railton.

Autograph manuscript of "Clery's Journal" bound in paper wrappers.

Revised and corrected typescript in Austin Dobson's hand.

Bound collection of manuscript materials pertaining to some of Dobson's work on Henry Fielding, including an autograph manuscript of Dobson's article on Fielding for Encyclopedia Britannica; Dobson's notes on the "Ryde" letter, an unsigned letter found at Fielding's home after his death; drafts of letters to American Fielding scholar F. S. Dickson.

3 letters from G. F. M. Fielding, great-great-grandson of Henry Fielding, along with Dobson's drafts of replies; also included are 2 letters from Fielding scholar G[ertrude]. M. Godden and Dobson's draft replies.

Dobson's autograph manuscript bound in blue paper wrappers. Initially printed in the National Review in February 1913 and reprinted in 1915 with, according to note by Alban Dobson, a page more than found in the original manuscript.

Bound autograph manuscript.

Autograph manuscript of Dobson's introduction to the 1882 Kegan Paul and Trench edition of Gay's Fables .

Corrected offprint of Dobson's 1916 article on Henry Fielding and his publisher Andrew Millar, as well as letters to Dobson from W. A. Pollard and notes by Fielding scholar J. Paul de Castro. Also included is a 1953 note by Alban Dobson about the material.

Dobson's autograph manuscript bound in blue paper wrappers; appeared in the Fortnightly in August 1890 as "Hogarth's Tour" and reprinted in Eighteenth-Century Vignettes (1896) as "The Adventures of Five Days."

Bound autograph manuscript.

Dobson's autograph manuscript of his introduction to the 1907 Oxford World Classics edition of Scottish physician and essayist John Brown's Horae Subsecivae .

Consists of Dobson's autograph manuscript for the piece, a corrected galley proof in his hand, and a tear sheet of the piece from The Sketch .

Dobson's autograph manuscript for his article on poet John Gay's (1685-1732) entry in the Dictionary of National Biography , which appeared in volume XXI in 1890. The manuscript also bears corrections by Dobson but also proofer's notes.

Autograph manuscript of Dobson's postscript to his article on English illustrator Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) that was published in The Art Journal in 1902.

Autograph manuscript bound in blue paper wrappers.

Incomplete autograph manuscript bound in blue paper wrappers.

Includes the printed poem in Christ's College Magazine , Milton Tercentenary Number, no. 68 vol. XXIII; a corrected proof and Dobson's fair copy with a variant verse added in Dobson's hand, as well as two letters from the editor and a letter from Dobson in reply.

Bound volume in full blue morocco from Edmund Gosse's library containing a variety of materials pertaining to Dobson's work on Fielding and his first biographer Arthur Murray. The volume contains Dobson's original working manuscript; Dobson's heavily corrected typescript; corrected galley proofs from The National Review ; an off-print from The National Review , corrected by Dobson; and an autograph letter from Dobson to Gosse dated 1913 promising him copies of the printed item.

Bound volume of Dobson's corrected typescript; off-print heavily corrected by Dobson; and letters of appreciation. Correspondents include Arthur Waugh, Edmund Gosse, George Saintsbury, Henry Johnes Fielding, and G. M. Godden. Volume presented to Christopher Dobson from Alban Dobson in 1950. A note in the hand of Christopher Dobson concerning the binder, Mr. Riley, appears on the front paste paper.

Autograph manuscript. Encyclopedia entries for an unidentified series.

Autography manuscript for Dobson's entry on Goldsmith for the Cambridge History of Literature .

Autograph manuscript of an incomplete essay that was never apparently published.

Autograph manuscript. Note written by Alban Dobson indicates the pieces was never apparently printed.

Corrected typescript with autograph insert. First printed in the National Review in 1910.

Two manuscripts bound in blue paper. One is an incomplete autograph manuscript of Dobson's essay in his hand; the other is a autograph manuscript in the hands of Dobson's colleague from the Board of Trade R. J. Lister and his daughter, Dorothy de Brissac Dobson. Corrections appear in Austin Dobson's hand. The piece appeared in Side-Walk Studies in 1901.

Autograph manuscript in Dobson's hand. First appeared in English Illustrated Magazine in September 1884.

Note by Alban Dobson reads: "Single sheets of m.s.s. / impossible to piece together/ probably duplicates."

Autograph manuscript of Dobson's essay on French astronomer Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637). First appeared in The National Review in October 1908.

Autograph manuscript of Dobson's preface to Elliot Stock's 1885 two-volume edition of The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith.

Autograph manuscript of Dobson's article which first appeared in English Illustrated Magazine in October 1890.

Includes page proofs for Dobson's poems "A Fable in the Manner of Mr. Swift" and "A Fable in the Manner of Mr. John Gay."

Special May Week number. Contains contributions by Dobson, Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, and A. C. Benson. Preserved stitched into a custom-made half-vellum binding. Item not in the University of London collection.

Includes the serialization of Oliver Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village" illustrated by E.A. Abbey with a preface by Dobson.

Bound volume of clippings of Dobson's contributions from Harper's Monthly Magazine between 1883 and 1893; Century from 1884; and Scribner's from 1879 and 1890.

Includes page proofs of Dobson's "A Mariner of France."

Includes a note in the hand of Cyril Dobson.

Bound volume containing tear sheets and clippings of Dobson's poetry from Temple Bar , Longman's Magazine , Belgravia , and Good Words . Included is an undated note in the hand of Alban Dobson. Several pages have been left blank for later inclusion of pieces. Notes identifying the sources and dates appear in the hand of Alban Dobson.

Bound volume containing tear sheets and clippings of Dobson's poetry from twelve periodicals, including St. Paul's , Antiquary , The Spectator , and Tom Hood's Comic Annual . A note from Alban Dobson identifies many of the sources. Many pages have been left blank for later inclusion, and it appears that some clippings have been removed.

A list of Dobson's poetry published in various magazines between 1864 and 1878 that were, "for the most part," reprinted in his two collections Vignettes in Rhyme (1873) and Proverbs in Porcelain (1877). Included are two copies of the list, one of which was presented by Dobson to C. Keary and was annotated by him.

Notebook containing variety of clippings relating to Dobson's friends and contemporaries, a handwritten list of references and quotations on a variety of topics of interest to Dobson. Also includes a silver gelatin print of Dobson. The volume is only partially filled.

Includes addresses for Dobson's friends, family and colleagues, including Edwin Abbey, C.B. Foote, Bernard Partridge, Edmund Gosse, and Cosmo Monkhouse.

Includes addresses for Dobson's friends, family and colleagues, including Hugh Thomson, Samuel Waddington, George du Maurier (1834-1896), who illustrated Rowfant Rhymes , and R.J. Lister, one of Dobson’s colleagues from the Board of Trade.

Half title of John Nichols's 1782 Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth , which reproduces Hogarth's invitation card "Eta Beta PY," apparently cut from its original volume. According to Dobson's William Hogarth (1891), this invitation card was "engraved by J. Cary… the 'Mr. King' invited to the 'Mitre' in Fleet Street was Dr. Arnold King, who selected the texts which garnish the Apprentice Series." Nichols's volume reproduces the Hogarth's sketch, which features several clever puns; Nichols also discusses the invitation in his text.

Notebook containing copied quotations and clippings.

Original issue of The North Briton issued Saturday, September 25, 1762, in which appeared an attack on William Hogarth by the editor of The North Briton English journalist and politician John Wilkes (1725-1797) and a reprint of the May 21, 1763, issue in which appeared a "rude" portrait of Hogarth. Included in the bound volume are two letters from bookseller James Tregaskis, who offered them as a gift to Dobson for his help in preparing Tregaskis's Hogarth catalog. Tregaskis informed Dobson that the reprint was from the celebrated Standley collection and is the copy "carried by Hogarth and shown to his friend and afterwards given by Mrs. Hogarth to Ireland." See Dobson's A Bookman's Budget for a discussion on another copy he consulted at the British Museum. Bound in full polished calf by Riviere and Son.

Bound volume of articles on Sir Richard Steele and Jonathan Swift from various periodicals; table of contents appears at front of volume in Dobson's hand.

Album of material compiled by Dobson pertaining to Horace Walpole and his Strawberry Press; includes clippings from newspapers and auction catalogs concerning Walpole's library and Strawberry Press publications, as well as a number of cut illustrations. Also included is an article by Dobson from The Library which features his own corrections.

Two original copper plates of illustrations after English painter and engraver Thomas Stothard (1755-1934) for British publisher and editor T. (Thomas) Cadell (1742-1802).

Metal printing block of an unidentified Dobson poem.

3 stereotypes for Dobson's bookplate designed by Edwin Abbey.

1 stereotype for Dobson's bookplate designed by English artist Alfred Parsons (1847-1920).

Framed examples of Dobson's Parsons and Abbey bookplates.

Bookplate of book collector Paul Lemperly (1858-1939) inscribed to Dobson from Lemperly. Dated August 16, 1894.

Photo-reproduction of an unidentified work by American artist F.D. (Francis David) Millet (1846-1912), who died with the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Mounted on board, presented to Dobson, signed by Millet.

Medal awarded to Dobson for his achievement in his studies of art at the South Kensington Schools. Includes original morocco case.

Includes correspondence concerning Austin Dobson's estate after the passing of Alban Dobson in 1962.

Agreement regarding several volumes of Dobson's poetry.

Agreement regarding several volumes of Dobson's prose works.

Copy of Dobson's 1905 will. Sections concerning literary estate identified by Alban Dobson.

Catalog owned by Austin Dobson's daughter, Margaret Bernard Dobson (MBD); annotated in her hand throughout regarding reserve prices, and in several instances, who among the family acquired the item. Also included is a 2001 annotation that Christopher Dobson acquired an item that had originally been purchased by his father in this sale.

Includes note by Alban Dobson about reserve prices; the catalog is annotated with reserve prices for items, and in many cases, who among the family acquired the item.

Section of a Sotheby's catalog listing the Austin Dobson collection of Dobson's first bibliographer, F.E. (Francis Edwin) Murray. Annotated with prices throughout.

Handwritten list of, according to a note by Christopher Dobson, "letters etc. to Austin Dobson 1867-1901, which were mounted and bound in two volumes. Those were sold to London University Library by Kenneth Dobson in the 1970s."

Catalog of the Ealing Public Libraries' Austin Dobson Collection donated by the Dobson family.

Letter to Alban Dobson from his sister Margaret concerning J.K. Robinson.

Yale University Librarian Herman "Fritz" Liebert (1911-1994) was a collector of Austin Dobson's publications and manuscripts; Liebert and Alban Dobson maintained a correspondence for several years, and they began work on a bibliography of Alban Dobson's gift to the University of London Library. The project never materialized. The letters document the relationship between Liebert and Alban Dobson and the project's demise.

Liebert's letter to Christopher Dobson mentions the state of Austin Dobson's copyright and royalties. Also included is a letter to J. Lees West, an Austin Dobson scholar, and a copy of Liebert's address "The British Look at America in the Age of Samuel Johnson" inscribed to Christopher Dobson.

Correspondence concerning Robinson's proposed study of Austin Dobson; the letters detail matters concerning Austin Dobson's manuscripts and his articles published in periodicals.

Letters from British literary scholar and historian George Saintsbury (1845-1933) on the work on Austin Dobson.

Letters from British art critic, editor, and author M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann.

Also includes two letters from Hugh and Jessie Thomson's son, John Thomson.

Bound volume with incoming letters to Alban Dobson pasted-in. The first volume includes items from Alban Dobson's school days and condolence letters on the death of his father in 1921. The volume also documents Alban Dobson's career in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and work on the Land Drainage Bill, on which he published a commentary in 1930. He was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 1931; Fisheries Secretary in 1938; and a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1939. Correspondents include George Saintsbury, Huge Walpole, Leonard Huxley, Clement Shorter, Thomas Wise, Alfred Noyes, Arthur M. Hind, and Bernard Partridge. Of note is a 1905 receipt from cricketer W. G. Grace. Some annotations identifying the correspondent are interspersed throughout the volume.

Bound volume with incoming letters to Alban Dobson pasted-in. The second volume is more focused on Alban Dobson’s career in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and his various appointments. Material includes letters of congratulations on various appointments, invitations, clippings, and a photograph. Correspondents include members of the British nobility and other dignitaries, colleagues, and friends of Alban Dobson. Some annotations identifying the correspondent are interspersed throughout the volume.

Typescript of proposed bibliography project on Austin Dobson with Yale University librarian and collector of Dobson, Fritz Liebert. Cyril Dobson's copy. Includes a 1953 note from Alban Dobson to his brother about the project, which never materialized. See Alban Dobson's correspondence with Fritz Liebert.

Bound presentation copy of The Cornhill Magazine in which the piece appeared from the magazine's editor Leonard Huxley. Also includes a letter from Huxley to Alban Dobson.

Mimeographed sheet for a program of presentations of Austin Dobson's poetry, including a reading by Alban Dobson.

Notebook containing Alban Dobson's notes on his father's manuscripts and books, detailing various dispersals and gifts after the author's death. Includes later notes by Christopher Dobson regarding placement of items at the University of London Library.

Autograph manuscript of a talk delivered by Alban Dobson on his father at Yale in 1953; see also Alban Dobson's correspondence with Fritz Liebert.

Bound volume of pasted-in reviews, clippings, and letters pertaining to Austin Dobson: Some Notes by Alban Dobson (1928). Correspondents include novelist Thomas Hardy, Clement Shorter, Arthur Waugh, M.H. Spielmann, George Saintsbury, G. Locker Lampson, Edward Marsh, Anstey Guthrie, and Edmund Gosse. The 1927 letter from Hardy grants permission to print his letters to Austin Dobson in a forthcoming book.

Article by Alban Dobson that appeared in the September 1924 issue of The London Mercury . Bound in a volume that bears Alban Dobson's bookplate.

Christopher Dobson's annotated copy marked with items in his own collection

Alban Dobson's own copy of his catalog interleaved throughout with blank leaves on which appear a number of notes and additions to the bibliography. Tipped-in are a number of letters from recipients of his catalog thanking him for the gift. The catalog is bound with pasted-in and copied contemporary reviews. Also bears Alban Dobson's bookplate. Correspondents include Alec Waugh, historian Robert Blake, and Dobson's sisters, Dorothy and Margaret.

Handwritten and typed amendments for items added to the University of London Library collection after the publication of the catalog. Also includes a handwritten copy (in Alban Dobson's hand) of an "extract of an undated [possibly 1881] letter from W.E. Healey" to Austin Dobson and a 1961 letter to Alban Dobson from his niece Rosemary that details her own Austin Dobson collection

Manuscript compiled by Alban Dobson beginning October 31, 1952, which accounts for the poems of Austin Dobson that were not included in the author's Complete Poetical Works (1923) published by Oxford University Press. Later notes by Alban Dobson acknowledge further collection of the excluded poems. Also included is a long 1948 note by Alban Dobson on the "selection of Austin Dobson's best poems."

Autograph manuscript with corrections of a talk given by Christopher Dobson on his grandfather

Manuscript catalog of Alban Dobson's very large collection of Austin Dobson works, part of which was donated to the University of London Library. Compilation began in 1932, additions were made up until 1956.

Includes notes in the hand of Christopher Dobson.

100 page-scrapbook containing clippings of Austin Dobson's obituary, articles about him and the dispersal of his library after his death in 1921, reviews of Alban Dobson's bibliography of his father, and considerations of the author's work. Also included is the printed program from Dobson's funeral service at St. Peter's Church, Ealing, on September 6, 1921, and obituaries of Augusta Mary Dobson, Alban Dobson's sister, who died in 1923.

Loose materials removed include reviews of Dobson editions printed after the author's death, reviews of works by Alban Dobson on his father, and an undated handwritten copy of Dobson's poem "Half-Mast-High," possibly in the hand of Alban Dobson.

Scrapbook containing clippings of magazine and newspaper appreciations of Dobson after his death in 1921

Copy belonging to Dobson's colleague at the Board of Trade, R. E. Martyr. Included are a 1921 letter from Alban Dobson to Martyr informing of his father's poor state of health, a portrait of Dobson, and a 1904 clipping referring to the controversy over Austin Dobson's 1902 pension, to which other letters tipped-into the volume to Martyr refer. Also tipped-in the volume are a letter from Edmund Gosse to Martyr, a fair copy of Dobson's poem "To Laurence Hutton with a Volume of Verse," and a 1922 letter to Martyr from Alban Dobson.

This copy includes pages heavily corrected by Dobson in preparation for the edition of 1889 uniform with Old World Idylls which could be bound up by readers as a two-volume set titled Poems on Several Occasions . Removed from the volume is the sketch of the title page as it should appear in that edition.

Volume bound together with letters of thanks from recipients thanking Alban Dobson for the gift. Items removed include a letter from Alban Dobson to his daughter. An accompanying note from Christopher Dobson explains the nature of the calendar. Correspondents of tipped-in material include Arthur Waugh, Clement Shorter, and M.H. Spielmann. Also tipped-in is an autograph poem by Dobson, three verses in length, inscribed "To Ethel," dated 1876.

Verse printed in a limited run; this copy one of possibly three printed on Japanese vellum. Accompanied by an 1897 letter from Austin Dobson to Lord Crewe presenting the item and asking his help in forwarding a copy to Queen Victoria which the Professor of Poetry at Oxford considered should be done. Another letter written on behalf of Lady Crewe returns the item to Christopher Dobson years later. [University of London Collection I.34 (2)]

See first edition, first printing, which was annotated by Dobson for this second impression. Included is a clipping of a review of the volume. This volume is dedicated to Dobson's daughter, Dorothy. An early draft of Dobson's prefatory verse appears in his hand in the volume.

Edmund Gosse's copy with fourteen autograph poems by Dobson bound into the volume, consisting of fair copies of the printed text, though several bear minor corrections, mainly to their titles. Also tipped-in is an autograph letter from Dobson to Gosse on literary matters dated 1917. Removed items include a subscription list and a letter to Alban? Dobson. [University of London Collection I.42]

Autograph letter signed from Dobson to his colleague from the Board of Trade, Secretary R. E. Martyr. An undated letter on Board of Trade stationery remains tipped-in in the volume. [University of London Collection I.4 (2)]

Typescript poem titled "Hymn Written by Austin Dobson for Maud Rendel's wedding to Henry Gladstone on January 30th, 1890." Maud Rendel was the daughter of Stuart Rendel, one of Dobson's relatives. [University of London Collection I.35 (9)]

One of only 13 copies printed on hand-made paper. Includes a note by Alban Dobson explains that each of these copies includes Dobson's autograph, his bookplate, and an extra illustration after a drawing by the late G. H. Broughton for the poem "Love in Winter." The verso of Alban Dobson's note lists the recipients of the 13 volumes.

Includes a letter from Dobson to his daughter Dorothy referring to a work that has not been well received by the critics. Dobson ends the letter "from your failure of a father." On the second page is a four-verse poem written on the occasion of the Shakespeare tercentenary. Also included is a brief typescript "Dedicated to Lissant in 'By leafy Ways' " dated 1889. Lissant was Dobson's daughter, Grace. Tipped-in material in the volume includes an autograph poem by Dobson evidently written to the illustrator G. H. Broughton asking him in a jocular way where the promised drawing of a girl was.

Family copy from Christopher Dobson's collection. Includes a postcard of the Terrace Gardens, Richmond, annotated by Austin Dobson "With Dorothy 10.viii. '10"; a clipping of a Dobson poem, and a library catalog card annotated in the hand of Christopher Dobson.

Dobson's own copy presented to him by his publisher Andrew Chatto. Included are several letters from readers raising points in the text, as well as a letter from Walter Besant, the dedicatee of the book. Also included are tear sheets of advertisements for the volume, plates, and silver gelatin prints of Deville House, a center of intellectual life in eighteenth-century Dublin. [University of London Collection I.28 (2)]

Volume contains Dobson's essays which later form his book Four French Women . A letter to Dobson's mother-in-law that refers to his essays. Another letter to Miss Eliza Keary who befriended Dobson in the 1860s at the outset of his literary career. A note on the letter in the hand of Christopher Dobson offers further information about Dobson's "Four Frenchwomen" essays.

Letter to Dobson from American reader J. C. L. Clark raising certain points addressed in the work. The volume is heavily corrected throughout by Dobson and also contains related clippings affixed to the endpapers. [University of London Collection I.10 (1)]

Letter from Dobson to publisher John Lane concerning a projected volume on Fielding.

This copy includes a note by Dobson referring to an original sketch by illustrator G. H. (George Henry) Broughton (1833-1905) appearing on page 109. This sketch decorates the poem "Love in Winter," and shows a young woman in a snowy landscape. The image became an important one for Dobson and was used by him in other publications, notable for the Austin Dobson calendar. Included here is an autograph letter to Dobson from Broughton in which Broughton offered to illustrate another copy of the book for Dobson.

Dobson's own copy. Includes autograph letters to Dobson from W. J. Prideaux and W. J. Courthope and Gosse. Related clippings tipped-into the volume. [University of London Collection I.39 (2)]

India paper edition. Alban Dobson's copy with his note regarding this copy as an "amended copy in which corrections have been entered from time to time, for insertion in the next edition." Included are a letter from Godspeed's Bookshop and several errata slips.

Includes notes by Dobson, clippings, and correspondence from readers. Other clippings and letters tipped-into the volume. [University of London Collection I.43 (1)]

Mock-up of a title page for a projected second series of Vignettes in Rhyme , which never appeared. Also removed is a card containing bibliographic information about the volume in the hand of Alban Dobson. The card notes the copy's (now-missing?) wrappers which "contains a pencil draft of a fragment of Beau Brocade by the author beginning 'As for the Beau he was fairly tried.' " [University of London Collection I.3 (3)]

Heavily corrected copy lacking title page and introduction. A note by Austin Dobson dated 1902 reads: "To Messrs. Heinemann. This corrected 'copy' must be carefully preserved, as it will be required in the event of any reissue of the Book in this form." Includes a 1999 postcard to Christopher Dobson.

Dobson's own copy with over 37 autograph letters to Dobson concerning various points raised in the volume; also includes several of Dobson's handwritten drafts to his correspondents. Correspondents include art historian and critic Arthur M. Hind (1880-1957); journalist and critic Clement Shorter; and Henry Johnes Fielding. Also includes related clippings. Other letters remain tipped-into the volume. [University of London Collection 1.21 (10)]

Facsimile reprint of the 1719 first edition. Includes two letters to Dobson from a reader, Thomas E. Jones. [University of London Collection III.7]

Presentation copy from Alban Dobson dated Christmas 1932 to Ruth and Roy Truscott. Removed items include items in Austin Dobson's hand, a card to his daughter Grace, an autograph poem, a folding diagram of the Union Jack with a note on how the design was reached, a facsimile of a Kate Greenaway drawing, and printed advertisements for A Vignette in Rhyme .

One of the six unique "advance copies" with the letter "E" in F.E.C. on the spine mistakenly printed as an "&." Includes a note by Alban Dobson describing the printing mishap, clippings of reviews, and letters from A. A. Symons of the First Editions Club, in one of which Symons confirms the location of the six copies. [University of London Collection V.39 (2)]

Alban Dobson's own copy, specially interleaved with blank pages for his own notes and additions. Items include Alban Dobson's notes and a letter from F. E. Murray, Austin Dobson's first bibliographer, and notes by Alban Dobson addressing later additions to the bibliography. Tipped-in is Edmund Gosse's original autograph manuscript of his preface as well as a letter from Gosse thanking Alban Dobson for his "delightful" bibliography. Also tipped-in is a 1922 letter from Thomas Wise praising the work.

One of Alban Dobson's working copies, with the misprint corrected. Presentation copy to Christopher Dobson from his father. Includes a letter from Alban Dobson to "Charles."

Dobson's autograph copy with his pencil notations throughout the introduction. Items laid in include four autograph letters and an index card listing the item in Christopher Dobson's hand; see Series I.B. Works by Austin Dobson, Box 6, F22, for other catalog entries created by Austin Dobson of his library. Correspondents include: James Bain, William Hunt, A. Baron, and Charles Jacobi of the Chiswick Press.

Presentation copy signed by the author. Includes 9 draft letters from Dobson to Godden and one tipped-into the volume, all concerning Fielding and her volume.

Austin Dobson's own copy with his Edwin Abbey bookplate. The volume is signed by both Dobson and illustrator Hugh Thomson. Clipping of a listing for the volume, a receipt from Macmillan to Dobson, and several of Thomson's plates. [University of London Collection III.6 (2)]

From the library of Alban Dobson, bearing his bookplate and signature. Includes a 1909 letter to Austin Dobson from Hugh Thomson which features some original sketches illustrating the letter and a 1932 letter from Thomson's son John to Alban Dobson.

Rare privately printed issue with poems selected by Austin Dobson. Items removed from the volume include an autograph poem in the hand of Dobson dated 1874 titled "A London Lyric (not in the seventh edition)" and another autograph poem on Rowfant Club stationery by Locker-Lampson titled "Lines Written under a Picture of Mrs. Langton[?]." The manuscript is identified as unpublished.

One of 127 copies printed on Japanese vellum in original limp vellum slipcase. Includes draft of a letter from Dobson to Locker-Lampson's son mentioning the Rowfant Club, Edmund Gosse, and declining an invitation owing to his deteriorating health.

Draft of a letter from Dobson to Noyes and Noyes's reply concerning Dobson's encouragement of the young poet and his first volume. A letter from Noyes tipped-into the volume presents Dobson with the book.

Presentation copy to Austin Dobson from Waugh signed 1915. Includes two letters from Waugh to Austin Dobson and one 1943 letter from Waugh's wife Catherine to one of Dobson's daughters (unidentified) after the author's death.