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DOROTHY L. SAYERS (1893-1957)
An Account of Lord Mortimer Wimsey, The Hermit of the Wash, Bristol: M. Bryan, 1816 [Oxford, 1937], 8°, [limited to 250 copies] (lightly soiled), unbound as issued; Aeneas at the Court of Dido, [Privately Printed], Christmas 1945, 8° (hole to upper margin of leaves affecting a few letters), original wrappers, rear wrapper signed and inscribed: "With best love & wishes Dorothy L. Sayers" (lightly soiled). With a head-and-shoulders photographic portrait, the image signed: "With love and all good wishes from Dorothy L. Sayers" (some soiling to margins), 9 x 6in. (3)
Provenance
Nancy Pearn.

Lot Essay

Sayers and Wilfred Scott-Giles, an expert in heraldry, invented a series of eccentric ancestors for her aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. Their "discoveries" were privately published in two pamphlets, both written by Sayers, the Account of Lord Mortimer Wimsey appearing a year after Papers relating to the Family of Wimsey of 1936 (see the previous lot). The post-war Aeneas at the Court of Dido is a poem of 22 stanzas.

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