Item 78 - Bookplate of William Aldis Wright, based on Dürer's engraving of Erasmus

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Add. MS a/40/78

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Bookplate of William Aldis Wright, based on Dürer's engraving of Erasmus

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  • 1906 (Creation)

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1 bookplate: 100 mm x 130 mm
1 photograph: 110 mm x 150 mm
1 letter: 1 sheet, typescript.

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Book plate, with photograph of the engraving of Erasmus by Dürer, 1526, on which it is based.

Letter, 11 May 1906, on headed notepaper of T. & R. Annan & Sons, Photographers & Photoengravers... 518 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, to William Aldis Wright. Obliged by the 'prompt receipt' of his cheque. 'The plate will be carefully preserved, and further copies can be got at any time'.

All in envelope addressed to W. Aldis Wright, Trinity College, Cambridge, postmarked Beccles, 15 Dec [19]05.

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