Bonhams Announces Sale of One of the World’s Finest Collections of Victorian Books

NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams announced the October 18th sale of The Robert H. and Donna L. Jackson Collection, one of the world’s finest collections of Victorian Literature as published in original parts and serial publications of the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection will be open for public view a week prior to the sale. The sale of over 270 lots, expected to fetch up to $1.5 million, includes the first editions of the greatest novelists of the mid-19th century. There is an almost complete collection of Dickens’s published novels in parts; a very rare complete collection of all Trollope novels published in parts (perhaps the only such collection in the world); the Surtees ‘Jorrocks‘ series; an extensive collection of books and correspondence relating to Ainsworth’s novel ‘The Tower of London’; 16 novels by the Irish writer Charles Lever, most published in parts in London and Dublin; 12 works

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