Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 463

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(FORE-EDGE PAINTING.) Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Complete Poetical Works. Portrait frontispiece, illustrated by John Gilbert. 8vo, contemporary blue morocco by Sotheran, decoratively bordered in gilt, spine similarly gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, few nicks to spine; ownership inscription. Author's edition. London: Routledge & Sons, 1871

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with fore-edge painting of a panoramic ice skating scene against a pastoral landscape with stone bridge in the background.