Your Books, My Son – £730,000
SIR Harry Newton (1871-1951), whose library provided some of the finest things in a £730,000 book sale held by Duke’s of Dorchester on March 8, was an adherent of the old ‘Cabinet’ school of collecting – buying key works of literature and science.
He recorded purchases in a privately printed collection of letters, Your Books, My Son, and of his c…