Original linocut design for the cover of James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

£850 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A trial design which was rejected because the costumes depicted were ‘about 100 years too late’ for the text, according to a note on the reverse in black marker.

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