By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
EB-J letter to F S Ellis Sunday In your Catalogue on The Grange headed notepaper
MS letter in brown ink
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Signed: E B J.

Sunday / My dear Ellis / In your Catalogue is a book / I must must see - the Mantegna / book of helmets & babies - / if it isnt gone may / I see it I will at the / end of tomorrow's work - that / is about 6 present myself / at your blissful & tempting / place - / if its the book I think / O how I want it / Yours very truly / EBJ.

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
13/07/2023

The letter to the publisher and bookseller F S Ellis, eagerly enquiring about a 'Mantegna book of helmets and babies', must date from after 1879 when Burne-Jones's address was changed from Fulham to West Kensington. The book in question has not been identified.

John Christian
29/06/2022
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
Frederick Startridge Ellis 1901
Janet Camp Troxell 1971
Princeton University Library 1971 - Present The Rossetti Coollection of Janet Troxell
Exhibition Catalogue no, Page no, Illustration no. Institution/Venue People From To
The Paintings, Graphic and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones 1833-1898 (1975-6) cat no. 351 p. 95 The Hayward Gallery
November 1975 January 1976
The Paintings, Graphic and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones 1833-1898 (1975-6) cat no. 351 p. 95 Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery (Birmingham Museums Trust)
March 1976 April 1976
The Paintings, Graphic and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones 1833-1898 (1975-6) cat no. 351 p. 95 Southampton City Art Gallery
January 1976 February 1976
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
Burne-Jones: the paintings, graphic and decorative work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones 1833-98, Hayward Gallery, Southampton City Art Gallery, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery 1975-6 John Christian, Miss Penelope Marcus 1975
cat no. 351 p. 95
The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy 2011
pp. 225-226, 234-235, 239, 343