May 18, 2006 - Sale 2080

Sale 2080 - Lot 358

Price Realized: $ 518
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(EVANS, FREDERICK.) Illustrations Prepared for the Memorial Edition of the Works of George Meredith. Illustrated with 60 photogravures and 4 collotypes, with 11 by Evans, 1 by Alvin Langdon Coburn, and others by walter benington, harold roller, mrs. sturgis, and mrs. trower, with the original tissue guards containing contemporary pencil notations identifying the photographers. 8vo-size cloth box, edgewear, backstrip worn; contents laid in, list of illustrations foxed (and with pencil notations), and the plates are bright. London: Constable and Company, 1911

Additional Details

A rare copy that was originally in the collection of Frederick H. Evans. The illustrations were issued in bound volumes but this box was especially made for Evans.