Dean (1849)

Lot 45: COLLINS (WILKIE) Autograph receipt signed, 1848

Name: COLLINS (WILKIE) Autograph receipt signed, 1848
Brand: Bonhams
SKU: fbd2ee88fe

Est: £200 GBP - £300 GBPSold:

BonhamsLondon, United KingdomNovember 22, 2011

Item Overview

Description

Autograph receipt signed ("W. Wilkie Collins"), for one guinea received from the Dean of Westminster for a copy of his memoir of William Collins, one page, on a narrow oblong slip (c.62 x 190 mm), blue paper, short tear neatly repaired, tipped onto album leaf, London, 9 December 1848

Artist or Maker

Dean (1849)

Notes

Wilkie Collins sells a copy of his first book, to the eminent geologist (and dinosaur hunter) William Buckland, Dean of Westminster. He was just twenty when his biography of his father, the painter William Collins RA, who had died the previous year, was published in 1848.

Auction Details

Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs, including the Property of the late Michael Silverman

Bonhams

November 22, 2011, 12:00 PM GMT

101 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1S 1SR, UK

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