AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION SIGNED IN THE THIRD PERSON BY BOOKMAN, COLLECTOR AND MUSEUM DIRECTOR SIR SYDNEY COCKERELL. by Cockerell, Sir Sydney. (1867-1962). British bookman and collector who was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, U.K - 1954.
by Cockerell, Sir Sydney. (1867-1962). British bookman and collector who was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, U.K
AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION SIGNED IN THE THIRD PERSON BY BOOKMAN, COLLECTOR AND MUSEUM DIRECTOR SIR SYDNEY COCKERELL.
by Cockerell, Sir Sydney. (1867-1962). British bookman and collector who was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, U.K
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Kew, Richmond, Surrey, U.K. 12 December, 1954., 1954.. Fine. - 12 words penned on an approximately 7-3/4 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide sheet of cream-colored note paper, signed in the 3rd person: "With Sydney Cockerells love and best wishes for 1955 / Kew 12 Dec 1954". Folded once for mailing. Fine.
Sir Sydney Cockerell [1867-1962] was a British bookman and collector who was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, U.K. from 1908 to 1937. He built up the museum's collections of private-press books and manuscripts, prints, drawings, paintings, ceramics and antiquities. It was he who secured the Museum's rich holdings of works by William Blake and who bought its first Picasso print.
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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- Book Condition Used - Fine
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- Publisher Kew, Richmond, Surrey, U.K. 12 December, 1954.
- Date Published 1954.
- Keywords BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; BRITISH BOOKMAN; COLLECTOR; MUSEUM DIRECTOR; SIR SYDNEY COCKERELL; ANS; A.N.S. AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION SIGNED IN THE THIRD PERSON BY SIR SYDNEY COCKERELL; DIRECTOR, FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE, U.K.