This view of Lords is the engraved frontispiece of a rare and early cricket book sold at £1000 in the Bloomsbury sale. The Cricketer’s Handbook, a slim work issued by Robert Tyas in 1838, was in original cloth with the title and an image of a batsman at the crease gilt stamped on the front cover.
A letter that Edward Lear wrote in 1881 to a friend to whom he intended to dispatch two drawings of Athens was among the more successful lots that Bloomsbury Auctions (24/18/12% buyer’s premium) sold on October 19.
“My Dear Montgomery,” Lear wrote from a villa at Sanremo, “… just about to pack and send off… two drawings of Athens – after all without any ‘Howls’ – large or small.