May 22, 2003 - Sale 1972

Sale 1972 - Lot 488

Price Realized: $ 2,530
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
GRAND SET ON JAPAN PAPER (SETS AND BINDINGS.) Sand, George. The Masterpieces of George Sand . . . Astral Edition. Translated by G. Burnham Ives. Plates in two states, sepia and black, and with one set of the frontispieces hand-colored. 20 volumes. 8vo, full pink levant, interlaced fillet borders on covers with subscriber's initials "BWH" in center, spines gilt tooled with floral decorations with white leather onlays in 3 compartments, lettering in 2, gilt edges and turn-ins, few marks, spies evenly toned; all edges gilt. Philadelphia, 1900-01
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one of 250 numbered sets of the astral edition, on japan paper