Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(BINDINGS--AMERICAN.) Group of over 20 volumes of American publisher's bindings. Mostly 8vo, beautiful gilt-decorated cloth and leather bindings, condition generally very good. Subjects include mostly literature, annuals and gift books, poetry, some juvenile literature. Includes Leaflets of Memory; an Illuminated Annual for 1847. With chromolithographs and engravings by Sartain. Bound by Altemus for E. H. Butler. Philadelphia, 1847; and Bryant's The Story of the Fountain. With 2 Winslow Homer illustrations. New York, 1872. Other publishers include Lindsay & Blackston, Dick & Fitzgerald, B. B. Mussey & Co., Putnam, Fields, Osgood and Co., Orange Judd & Co. Mostly Philadelphia, Boston, and New York, early-late 19th century