The Rose and the Ring : autograph manuscript : Rome, 1853.

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Record ID: 
116083
Accession number: 
MA 926
Author: 
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Credit: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1915.
Description: 
1 item (90 p.), bound : ill. ; 25.5 cm
Notes: 

High reserve.

Summary: 

Written on the rectos of 90 pages with 50 pen and ink drawings, 29 watercolor drawings and 1 pencil sketch mounted on the manuscript pages.

Housed in: 
Red quarter leather drop-spine box (28.2 cm)
Binding: 
Red leather gilt by Holloway.
Provenance: 
Sold by Anne Thackeray Ritchie to Pearson, London 1896, and by Major W. H. Lambert, New York, Feb. 27, 1914, cat. no. 1016; purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. from George D. Smith in December 1915.