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Carpenter's Memoir of Van Dijck and the famous 

 Iconographie, par Antoine Van Dyck, and other 

 scarce books and sketches. This was by no 

 means his first visit to these famous auction- 

 rooms : writing of him in 1883, Horace Lennard 

 gives the following sketch of Tegetmeier as an 

 art and literary collector : " Frequenters of 

 Sotheby's and other sale-rooms must often have 

 seen him eagerly bidding for prints and books, 

 whose value could only be appreciated by a 

 connoisseur. His short, thin figure, arrayed 

 comfortably but somewhat carelessly in black, 

 and his animated face surmounted by a black 

 clerical wideawake, must be familiar at many 

 gatherings besides pigeon and poultry shows." 



He was a great lover of Shelley, and was fond 

 of quoting passages, both in his writings and in 

 conversation, from that poet's works, of which 

 he made a very fine collection. In the article* 

 from which I have just quoted is a reference to 

 the collection, and as I knew but little about it 

 personally, it would be better to give the passage 

 from the interview. Mr. Lennard wrote : " The 

 most valuable of Mr. Tegetmeier's books, how- 

 ever, will be found in his Shelley collection, 

 which comprises several hundred volumes. These 

 include most of the original editions. Of Adonais 

 he has two copies — Leigh Hunt's and Peacock's. 

 Each of these is worth sufficient to purchase 



* From the World, April 11th, 1883. 



