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Autograph Letter Signed ‘Lake Price’, preparing to go to Spain in September, to W.H.Pickersgill, agreeing get him “a Valencia Manta” in Spain “if I send home, which I expect to do, a parcel of Drapes”, discussing returning an old chest, etc. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, with the original separate envelope. 46 Warren Street, 18 August 1847. Uncommon. William Frederick Lake Price (1810–1896), English watercolourist and an innovator in mid-nineteenth-century photography. He illustrated Richard Ford’s Tauromachia, or the Bull-Fights of Spain, illustrated by Twenty-Six Plates, representing the most remarkable Incidents and Scenes in the Arenas of Madrid, Seville, and Cadiz (1852). He was the author of A Manual of Photographic Manipulation, treating the Practice of the Art, and its Various Applications to Nature (1858).