CHRISTIE, MANSON & WOODS / ART MARKET HISTORY. An Edwardian ...

CHRISTIE, MANSON & WOODS / ART MARKET HISTORY. An Edwardian sales record album, circa 1903-1909, on approx. 50pp., opening with a biographical note, portrait print, and 1906 estate sale summary for senior partner Thomas Hoade Woods (1829-1906), containing rare interior photographs of preview exhibitions in Christie's West Gallery (the King Street salerooms destroyed during the 1941 Blitz), including the Braikenridge Collection, 1908, alongside numerous mounted photographic prints paired with trimmed catalogue entries, manuscript hammer prices and buyer names (noting Duveen, Agnew, and others), recording landmark dispersals of the era, notably Nelson's autograph Trafalgar Memorandum (£3,600 to Sabin, 1906; now BL Add MS 37953, with contemp. catalogue entry and photographs), the celebrated and contentious 'Gabbitas Biberon' (£16,275 to Wertheimer, 1905; sold as 16th-century with ms catalogue re-attribution from 'Italian' to 'German'), Caxton's Caton (£1,350 to Quaritch, 1905), and numerous other items (the ms entry for a Gainsborough noting 'Sold at Christie's, full of holes and in a filthy condition...'); accompanied by approx. 14 loose manuscript cataloguing slips headed 'PM' for majolica, enamels, and carvings, and a small group of loose period photographs and plates (some likely detached from mounts); one mounting leaf split through vertically, various wear including splits and chips to others, several mounts vacant or with evident losses; contemp. gilt-blocked burgundy grained leather, rubbed, worn to extremities and splitting to joints, pencilled name 'H. A. Gibb' to ffep, folio.

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