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SIGNED AND DATED 1902
INSCRIBED '"GOOD MORNING TO YOU DAUGHTER" HE SAID "HOW HAVE YOU SLEPT AFTER YOUR LONG JOURNEY ...' ON REVERSE
INSCRIBED 'PEARL MAIDEN' AND 'GRAPHIC' AND WITH PRINTING INSTRUCTIONS, AND DATED 'OCT 18/02' ON REVERSE IN ANOTHER HAND
PEN AND INK
10 1/4 X 11 INCHES
PROVENANCE: SIR HUGH WALPOLE;
'FIFTH PORTION OF THE FAMOUS LIBRARY OF THE LATE SIR
HUGH WALPOLE, CBE', CHRISTIE'S, 7 MAY 1946, LOT 297
ILLUSTRATED: THE GRAPHIC, 18 OCTOBER 1902, PAGE 513, 'PEARL MAIDEN' BY
H RIDER HAGGARD; H RIDER HAGGARD, PEARL-MAIDEN. A TALE
OF JERUSALEM, NEW YORK: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO, 1903,
FACING PAGE 283
EXHIBITED: 'THE ILLUSTRATORS. THE BRITISH ART OF ILLUSTRATION
1800-2014', NOVEMBER 2014 - JANUARY 2015, NO 153