Hieroglyphical riddles and revolting rhymes in Chiswick auction
Featured in a recent report (ATG No: 2286), a copy of Sir Charles Doyly’s Views of Calcutta and its Environs that sold for £14,000 at Chiswick Auctions (22% buyer’s premium) on March 22 was one of many lots – both printed and manuscript – that came with a Harrington family provenance.
Several of those lots produced bids well in excess of estimate, almost from the very start of proc…