Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(BINDINGS--ENGLISH.) Group of 21 volumes of mostly English publisher's cloth bindings, plus a few from other European countries. Mostly 4to, beautiful gilt-decorated cloth and leather bindings, condition generally very good. Subjects include mostly literature, art, and history. Publisher's include Longman, Wm. Blackwood, Bogue (and as Tilt & Bogue), Moxon, Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, Sampson, Low, and others. Mostly London, early-late 19th century

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Includes: The Book of Ballads: Edited by Bon Gaultier. Illustrated by Alfred Crowquill and with an additional chromolithographed title. 12mo, in an unusual gilt-decorated black and purple striped cloth. London: Orr and Co., 1845 Wordsworth. Poems. Elaborately gilt cobalt blue cloth with raised morning glory design, rear joint starting. London, 1859 Quarles' Emblems. Beautiful gilt-decorated magenta cloth, spine faded. London, 1861 Jerrold. Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures. Illustrated by Charles Keene. In rose cloth with gilt and blind raised illustration on covers. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1866.