Two Autograph Letters, signed Marian E. Lewes to Frederic, 1st Baron Leighton, 1862 WITH Romola

by George Eliot, Mary Anne Evans

$18,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Includes first De Luxe Edition , number 971 of 1000 numbered copies: the first book edition with complete Leighton illustrations. First letter: 6 pages, comprised of a bifolio and a single sheet, handwritten in black ink on 5 pages, printed header 16 Blandford Square, N.W. struck through, Beach Hotel, Little Hampton, Sussex, Sep. 10. 62 added by hand. Second letter: bifolio, handwritten in black ink on 4 pages, printed

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