LOT 3080
4th December 2024
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LOT 3080
SEWELL, Anna. Black Beauty, the Autobiography of a Horse. London: Jarrold and Sons, 1894. First illustrated edition, inscribed by L. Edith Sewell, 4to (248 x 141mm.) Illustrations by John Beer, tipped-in portrait frontispiece. (Toning, occasional finger-mark.) Original pictorial blue cloth (fading to spine and upper cover, extremities rubbed). Note: ‘Black Beauty’ was Anna Sewell’s only novel. She died in 1878, five months after publication. After a lifetime of fitful poverty she lived long enough to see her novel become a success. Anna had no children but her brother, Philip, had seven and Lucy Edith Sewell was one of her five nieces. Provenance: ‘Benny’ (gift inscribed to in ink on the half-title by L. Edith Sewell).
Estimate: £80 – £120
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