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Property of a gentleman - 'The New Forest Its History And Its Scenery' - artist's edition, with 12 etchings by Heywood Sumner, published by Henry Sotheran & Co., 1883, number 15 of a limited edition of 50 copies, with pasted in ink manuscript letter from the illustrator Heywood Sumner to William Greenell Wallace, son of Alfred Russel Wallace, dated 9th June 1920. Provenance - the Wallace family, descendants of Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS (1823–1913), the well-known British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator.
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