Lot 509
ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19th CENTURY
A COMMONPLACE BOOK
The property of Frances Phoebe Lefroy, 1836, containing approx. 59 drawings, watercolours and prints (landscapes, figure subjects, portraits and `Old Master` subjects etc); also poetry and penmanship, contemporary morocco, worn, 24.5 x 19cm, 4to
* This occasional book was given to Frances Phoebe Lefroy by her Brother Anthony Cotterell Lefroy (A.C.L.) who lived in Ashe Rectory, Hampshire. They are the grandchildren of Madam Anne Lefroy (1749-1804), friend and confidant of Jane Austen. Included inside the pages is an 1828 pencil sketch of Ashe Rectory by J C Lefroy
