Penciled autograph note in the hand of Michael Sadleir concerning a variant form of Ouida’s “Toxin” (1895)

Sadleir (Michael).     Undated      Single sheet of lined paper, torn across bottom margin without apparent loss of text. Approx. 7-ins. x 7-ins. (18 cms. x 18 cms.)  Sadleir notes that he has recently acquired a copy of Ouida’s “Toxin” that “claims membership of Unwin’s Century Library”. He describes the copy in detail and states that his research has failed to find any trace of the Century Library and concludes that the series “died stillborn”. In his “XIX Century Fiction: A Bibliographical Record” Sadleir describes “Toxin” as appearing in Unwin’s Pseudonym Library, but adding “the ‘series’ status of this book is obscure”. Sold together with a cutting from a bookseller’s catalogue dated in Sadleir’s hand and a cutting of his review of Carroll A. Wilson’s “Thirteen Author Collections of the Nineteenth Century...”.We regret that VAT must be charged on orders from clients within the EU for all autograph letters and manuscripts (unless they are bound in the form of a book). 

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