London exhibition lots join worldwide adventures at sale

A handsome group of eight volumes commemorating the Great Exhibition of 1851 sold in Exeter had been presented to one of its commissioners, England’s serial Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone.

Bound by Rivière in full crimson morocco, the lot realised £23,000 in a December 7-8 sale held by …

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