BIB_ID
307987
Accession number
MA 7804
Display Date
1901, October 16.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2010.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 25.5 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Removed from: Ruskin, John. The seven lamps of architecture. London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 1855 (PML 195391).
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund from Glenn Horowitz, 2010.
Summary
Informing Bixby that they have received from publisher George Allen a manuscript entitled "A history of the reissue of 'The seven lamps of architecture' in 1880", prepared by him at their request to accompany the annotated copy of Ruskin's work recently purchased by Bixby. Letter goes on to convey Allen's stipulation that the manuscript not be published, and concludes with references to other volumes the firm will be sending to Bixby concerning "West's portrait of Byron", and a query regarding an illuminated manuscript still in the recipient's possession (i.e. "We have not yet heard from you with reference to Rosenthal's illuminated MS mentioned in our letter of September 11 and as you have not returned it we hope that you have decided to keep it. ...").
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