Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 266

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(ROWLANDSON, THOMAS; et al.) Group of 3 volumes. Each with aquatint illustrations by the masters of 19th-century illustration including Rowlandson, Pugh, Howitt, and Cruikshank. 8vo, 19th century red morocco gilt, condition as noted; bookplates of Norman J. Sondheim in all, others as noted. London, 1800s

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Wigstead. Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales in the Year 1797. Binding by Riviere and Son, covers detached, though repairable; ex-collection Philander Chase Knox with his bookplate. Abbey, Scenery 516. 1800 [Combe, William.] The Tour of Doctor Syntax through London, or the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis. Colored aquatint plates. Binding by Wood, spine dampstained into rear cover; residual staining to upper gutter of several pages. Ex-collection with bookplates of Herbert L. Carlebach and Walter Thomas Wallace. Abbey, Life 265. 1820 Ainsworth, W. Harrison. Jack Sheppard. A Romance. A New Edition. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Binding by Bedford, a few marks but still very attractive and the best of the group; scattered foxing. Bentley, 1840.