Oct 01, 2009 - Sale 2188

Sale 2188 - Lot 182

Price Realized: $ 210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(LEECH, JOHN.) A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott. The Comic History of Rome. 10 colored engraved plates and numerous wood engravings by John Leech. 10 parts in 9. 8vo, original blue illustrated wrappers, few minor repairs to a few spines; marginal repair to one plate; 1/2 navy gilt morocco clamshell box, joints cracking. London, [1851-52]

Additional Details

first edition in the original parts. Contains all the ads called for in Abbey Life 435, plus an insert in Part IX advertising Dickens's Bleak House. Tooley 298.