[ Maggs Brothers.] Two Autograph Letters Signed by W. E. Lent, reporting on sale, with copy of ''Hallgate Auction Rooms, Doncaster. Catalogue of the Library of Rare and Valuable Books, The Property of G. E. Crouch Yarborough, Esq.'

The two letters each 1p., 4to. Both on aged paper, with wear to left hand margin causing loss to text. In the first letter Lent gives details of 8 of his 17 purchases on that day, adding that 'The Lots sold quite well, a good many co are here, also Bowes, Blackwell, Mc Leis Taylor (Scheurer). Edwards, Pickering & E. Mathews, have marks.' In the second letter he gives details of 5 of his 10 purchases, one of them for 'Mr Butterwick'. He gives details of three commissions which Butterwick left with him, only one of which was successful. Catalogue: 31 + [1]pp., 4to. In brown printed wraps. Aged and worn. Annotated in pencil, with some of the 831 lots priced and named. A sturdy country-house library (the top seller, at £130 to Drayton, was a first edition of Chesterfield's letters). Comparison of the catalogue with Lent's letters gives no indication that the sale was ringed. The only copy of the catalogue on either COPAC or OCLC WorldCat at the British Library.