Lot 350
Leech, John
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
£313
Description
Mr. Briggs & his doings: fishing. London: Bradbury and Evans, [1860]. Folio, 13 hand-coloured illustrations on 12 pages, original pictorial orange paper wrappers bound in, green cloth with later green spine, some slight rubbing to boards
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire
Note: Leech was a friend of John Everett Millais, who took him fishing at Stobhall. The outcome of this trip was 'Mr. Briggs and his Doings: Fishing', the caricatures are probably of Leech himself, trying to catch salmon.