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Lot 119: [CONGREVE, WILLIAM.]

Est: £400 GBP - £600 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomMay 27, 2004

Item Overview

Description

Manuscript of Congreve's novel "Incognita: or Love and Duty reconciled"

Artist or Maker

Condition Report

copied in a neat, small cursive hand, with dedication "To The Honoured and Worthily Esteemed Mrs Katharine Leveson" signed "Cleophil" and "The Preface to the Reader", 131 pages, 8vo, contemporary olive-green morocco gilt, spine in compartments ornately gilt, morocco lettering pieces with title and initials "E:B", 1788

Notes

A neatly produced copy of Congreve's novel (first published in 1692) made in 1788 perhaps by one "E. B."

Auction Details

The Library of John R.B. Brett-Smith

by
Sotheby's
May 27, 2004, 12:00 AM EST

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK