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RICHTER, Jean Paul (1763-1825). Autograph album leaf signed ('Jean Paul Richter'), Munich, 5 July 1820, 'Die Besuch- und Lustzimmer der vornehmere Welt sind glänzende Gärten voll italienischer Blumen, die weder duften, noch wachsen, und Obstkammern voll wächserner Aepfel. Ich lobe mir ein einfaches englisches Rasenstück, das grünt und wächst' [The visiting and pleasure rooms of the genteeler world are dazzling gardens full of Italian flowers, which neither smell nor grow, and fruit cabinets full of wax apples. Thank goodness for a simple English turf, which becomes green and grows], six lines on one page, oblong 8vo. Provenance: Newnham College, Cambridge, sold Sotheby's, 27 October 1980, lot 88;
[with] an autograph letter signed by his wife Caroline Richter to the bookseller Joseph Max, Bayreuth, 20 June 1829, about the proposed fourth edition of Christian Otto and Ernst Förster's Fortsetzung der Biographie oder Wahrheit aus J.P.'s Leben, four pages, 4to, bifolium. (2)
[with] an autograph letter signed by his wife Caroline Richter to the bookseller Joseph Max, Bayreuth, 20 June 1829, about the proposed fourth edition of Christian Otto and Ernst Förster's Fortsetzung der Biographie oder Wahrheit aus J.P.'s Leben, four pages, 4to, bifolium. (2)
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