REINFORCED at the spine with linen some time ago, the sale catalogue seen right was issued in 1836 by a Mr Pigott for a sale of farming stock, garden and other seeds, plus household furniture, held at Normandy Farm, near Ash in Surrey – the home of “the late William Cobbett, Esq. MP”, and of course author of Rural Rides. In a Bloomsbury Auctions sale of June 17, it was sold for £400 (C.R. Johnson).
Sold for £2200 (Cline) in that auction was a volume containing manuscript details of various London properties auctioned in the 1820s and '30s by George Robins, a successful town and country auctioneer who also handled the sales of Strawberry Hill, the Southwark Estate (Leicester Square), Rutland House and Nash's estate, as well as Lundy Island.
