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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

[Sir Bertrand] / W.R. Sedgfield.

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William Russell Sedgfield
1826-1902

[Sir Bertrand] / W.R. Sedgfield.

[London : s.n., 1849?]
wood engraving
image: approx. 115 x 81 mm; sheet: 229 x 195 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.979
Notes
India paper proof of a wood engraved headpiece vignette and initial "S" by W.R. Sedgfield after a design by F.W. Hulme or J. Franklin for John Aikin's "Sir Bertrand, a fragment", published in Leigh Hunt's A book for a corner, or, selections in prose and verse from authors the best suited to that mode of enjoyment ... / by Leigh Hunt ; illustrated with eighty wood engravings, from designs by F.W. Hulme and J. Franklin. London : Chapman and Hall, 1849, p. 41.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Inscriptions/Markings
Annotated with notes by Sedgfield in pencil: Good- Lights on building-care also on grass & bush; This also was apt to work muddy; I will let you have this in the morning-it is at the printers.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Illustration shows Sir Bertrand leading his horse towards a desolate mansion on the moors at night.

Associated names
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859. Book for a corner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints