Oct 11, 2012 - Sale 2289

Sale 2289 - Lot 309

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(ROGERS, BRUCE.) Boswell, James. Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle. Edited by Geoffrey Scott. 19 volumes (of 22; includes Tour to the Hebrides, but lacking the final volumes, the Index and Catalogue to the Private Papers). Several facsimiles of Boswell's manuscript pages. Large 4to, original red board and cloth spines with printed paper spine labels, some moderate rubbing and mild fading; mostly unopened; matching red board slipcases, similar wear. Np: Privately Printed (by William Edwin Rudge), 1928-34.

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number 479 of 575 sets. Designed by Bruce Rogers, who produced a set of volumes that are "magnificent examples of the arts of the printed book. They are, surely, the most impressive single monument of the Rudge/Rogers association"--Blumenthal, pages 104-5.