Catalogue of a Very Choice and Select Collection of Engravings; Comprising Portfolio and Proof Prints…and Some Coloured and Uncoloured Mounted Drawings…Property of the Late Samuel Ward, Esq., L.L.D.…To Be Sold by Auction…August 14th and 15th, 1835 [cover title].

Dublin:: [The Auctioneer],.. Not illustrated, 16 pp. 4to, self-wrappers; side-stitched; some separation at top and bottom of spine. No other copy located. Mostly 18th and 19th century artists.Sharpe was a major Dublin auctioneer who held auctions from 1820 until his retirement in 1851. An Englishman by birth, he moved to Dublin in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, he first set up a partnership with Charles Cumming (Charles Cumming & Co., booksellers and stationers, 19 Dame Street) this partnership was dissolved in August 1819 and by December of that year he had announced his intention to become an independent auctioneer. He moved several times in the following two years, but in March 1821 he settled at 33 Anglesea Street where he was to remain for the next thirty years, retiring in 1851 (the address of his building on Anglesea was changed once over the years, but physically it was the same building).Sharpe’s own copies of his auction catalogues and the records of the company are in the Royal Irish Academy. The collection is very complete, covering the years 1820 to 1851. A manuscript note inserted in the bound volume for 1820 states these are “the late Charles Sharpe’s private collection of all his own sales of Books, Paintings, Engravings, extending from 1820 to 1851, partly priced with ms notes.” Considering the vast number of catalogues that were printed very few have survived. The National Library of Ireland has a very few; Trinity College holds a small number, and some are in Harvard University, the Bodleian, the British Library and the National Library of Scotland.