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Auction: 23025 - Historical Documents, Postal History & Autographs
Lot: 148

Great Britain
Leeds
1715 Autograph letter written by John Sturt (1658-1750), engraver, (and the illustrator of "The Pilgrims's Progress), to Ralph Thoresby at Leeds, with an address panel and bishop marks. Thoresby is acknowledged as the first historian of Leeds and was a renowned antiquarian. The letter concerns pages and plates for publication. In 1715 he published the Topographical Survey of the Parish of Leeds.
"Sir, You are desired to send up the Pages of the two Prospects of the Churches, also that of Thoresby's Monument and the Statue of the Queen. The map of twenty miles round about Leeds Mr Ashley has it not, all the sheets are sent into Mr Ashley. The Lions Paws in ye Arms of Pawson you said you would give me directions for. I have lost the letter you wrote last wherein was as I remember a Dozen Coats to be engraven, be pleased to send me them by the first opportunity, and I'll engrave them forthwith. Your book will be published in a very small time.
There's no plates for these: Page 91 Rodes to Portington; 103 Washington, Spencer, Baynes & Iveson; 200 Nevile, Harrington & Langton, unless they are among them I have lost."
An important and historic item relating to the history of Leeds and Yorkshire


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Estimate
£2,000 to £2,500

Starting price
£1800