Jumblie sale
A VOLUME of previously unknown drawings and limericks by the 19th century poet and nonsense versifier, Edward Lear, found at the bottom of a box of books bought at a jumble sale by a woman in London for pounds 2, has been valued at pounds 8,000 for auction at Christie's in November.
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