Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(BINDINGS--ENGLISH.) Group of 19 volumes of mostly English decorative publisher's leather bindings, plus a few from other European countries. Mostly 4to and 8vo, condition very good. Publishers include Routledge, Moxon, Bradbury, Blackwood & Sons, Longman's Green and others. Mostly London, early-late 19th century

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Includes: Rogers. Poems. In a lovely binding by De Nardo, Venice, of hand-painted and gilt-stamped vellum with central diamond device in center of covers, borders, and similarly decorative spine with brown calf gilt lettering piece and raised bands, gilt and gauffered edges, gilt turn-ins and white watered silk endpapers, joints a bit rubbed; slipcase. London: Cadell, Strand, and Moxon, 1834 Sir Walter Scott. The Lady of the Lake. In burgundy cloth elaborately stamped in black, with gilt and gauffered edges, signed by Robert Seton, Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Black, 1853.