English literature and history, private press and illustrated books, related drawings
Subtitle: including remarkable series of more thatn forty letters of the Earl of Essex to Elizabeth I ... an important autograph letter by Blake ... and one of 12 large paper copies of Evelyn Waugh's "Decline and fall"
By: Sotheby's.
Series: Blake -- no. 290
Publisher: Sotheby's
Published: 1992
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Sotheby's (Firm) -- Catalogs.; English literature -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.; Manuscripts -- Catalogs.; Rare books -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.; Great Britain -- History -- Catalogs.
Genres: Bibliography; Catalogs.
Notes: Days of sale: 14th December 1992, Tuesday 15th December 1992.

"Sale no. 3504"--P. [3] of cover.

Lot 15 is a work owned by William Blake with an engraving by him on cover; lot 16 is an autograph letter by William Blake to the painter Ozias Humphry; lot 32 is S.T. Coleridge and Robert Southey's Omniana; lots 94-100 & 332 are important T.E. Lawrence items.

Also includes items related to John Lehmann, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, The Hogarth Press, Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murray, Roger Fry, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf among many others.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235-236]) and index.

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.