1812. Duke of Roxburghe £23,397 1813. Ralph Willett (Merly) 13,508 1818-21. James Brindley _over_ 17,522 1819. John North 12,806 1825. Sir Mark Masterman Sykes 18,729 1827. John Dent 15,040 1828-35. Earl of Guilford 12,175 1833-34. P. A. Hanrott 22,409 1834-36. Richard Heber 56,774 1844-45. Duke of Sussex 19,148 1849. Duke of Buckingham (Stowe) 14,155 1853. W. Pickering (private library) 10,700 1859-64. Gulielmo Libri 28,159 1864. George Daniel 15,865 1868-73. Rev. T. Corser 19,781 1873. Henry Perkins 25,954 1874. Sir William Tite 19,943 1878. R. S. Turner (Paris) 12,764 1879-81. David Laing 16,536 1881-83. Sunderland (Blenheim) 56,581 1882-83. William Beckford 73,551 1884. Duke of Hamilton 12,892 1883. Stourhead (Hoare) 10,028 1884. Earl of Gosford 11,318 1884. Sir J. H. Thorold (Syston Park) 28,000 1885. Earl of Jersey (Osterley Park) 13,007 1885-87. L. L. Hartley 16,529 1886. F. C. Severne, M.P. (Michael Wodhull) 11,972 1887. Baron Seillière 14,944 1887-89. Earl of Crawford 26,397 1887-88. J. T. Gibson-Craig 15,519 1888. Earl of Aylesford 10,574 1888. R. S. Turner 16,244 1889. MSS. from the Duke of Hamilton’s collection (bought privately by the Berlin Government) 15,189 1890. Sir Edward Sullivan 11,002 1891. W. H. Crawford (Lakelands) 21,255 1897. Earl of Ashburnham. Part 1 30,151 1897. Earl of Ashburnham. Part 2 18,649 It is worthy of notice in the above list that the amounts realised for the Heber and Sunderland sales were almost identical, while the totals of the Hamilton Palace libraries were larger than those for any other English sale, viz., £86,543 (Beckford, £73,551; Duke of Hamilton, £12,892).