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[DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)]. Pen-and-ink sketch, 'Charles Dickens reading a chapter from Nicholas Nickleby in the 60s', signed 'AR', in an album containing 81 sketches, the majority dated 1865-1867, caricatures and scenes both domestic and on tours of Ireland, Scotland and the Continent, various sizes, 20th-century half brown morocco. Provenance. William Foyle (bookplate).

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[DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)]. Pen-and-ink sketch, 'Charles Dickens reading a chapter from Nicholas Nickleby in the 60s', signed 'AR', in an album containing 81 sketches, the majority dated 1865-1867, caricatures and scenes both domestic and on tours of Ireland, Scotland and the Continent, various sizes, 20th-century half brown morocco. Provenance. William Foyle (bookplate).

A note on the title page incorrectly attributes the drawings to 'Ann Radcliffe Author of Mysteries of Udolpho' (she died in 1823).

[with] [BUDDHISM]. Manuscript notebook, in an unidentified early 20th Century hand, containing notes of reading on the cultures, monuments and history of South-East Asia, with particular reference to India and Buddhism, approximately 70 pages, 4to, bound with 9 watercolour drawings, showing the Taj Mahal and Indian costumes, 20th-century cloth. Provenance. William Foyle (bookplate).

[and] [St John CRYSOSTOM]. Manuscript, the Mass of St John Crysostom, parallel texts in Greek and Latin, [late 18th Century], 80 pages, 4to, bound with 9 watercolour drawings showing Greek and Albanian costumes, [mid-19th Century], 19th-century vellum. Provenance. Sir Alexander Jardine, Bt; Thomas Crofts (donation inscription); William Foyle (bookplate). (3)
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