Sale 1243
London, South Kensington
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29 June 2011
Price realised
GBP 1,062
Estimate
Walter Stanley Paget (1863-1935) 'This was game indeed': Frontispiece to Robinson Crusoe, 1896 signed 'WAL PAGET' (lower right) pen and black ink and grey wash heightened with white 7½ x 6 in. (19 x 15.3 cm.)
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Literature
Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Suprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, as Related by Himself, London, 1896, p. 1.
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