Name: Auction: Ruskin, John (1819-1900) Autograph letter signed, Brantwood, 2nd January 1885
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 300 GBP
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Sale number: 694 Our July Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs sale was led by an important document signed by Sir Walter Raleigh, a very early edition of John Cleland's Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure (c.1755), a work better known to posterity as Fanny Hill, and a rare first edition of John Law’s Money and Trade Considered (1705). Additional highlights featuring in the sale included a first edition, first impression, paperback issue of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), a set of James Sowerby's The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain (1812-29) from the library of Andrew Carnegie, and an imposing 18th century atlas by Thomas Kitchin.

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Thanking one Mrs Thornley for her 'entirely exquisite embroideries of flowers' and arranging a visit, single bifolium of Brantwood stationery (17.5 x 11cm), written on one side only, pin-holes to head and foot, old transverse fold. Together with 4 autograph letters by various artists (Carlo Marochetti, sculptor, 1805-1867; Jean-Léon Gérôme, painter, 1824-1904; George du Maurier, 1834-1896, cartoonist; Thomas Woolmer, 1825-1892, sculptor; all mounted on album leaves) (5)

Autograph letter signed, Brantwood, 2nd January 1885

Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

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Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

Autograph letter signed, Brantwood, 2nd January 1885

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