May 17, 2007 - Sale 2114

Sale 2114 - Lot 488

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(SETS AND BINDINGS.) Shakespeare, William. Works . . . Elwood Edition. 10 volumes in 20. Hand-colored frontispieces and numerous illustrations with lettered tissue guards. Large 8vo, brown calf pictorially decorated with gilt roses on winding stems along front covers and spines, spines darkened and a bit dry, joints tender, some worn; early owner's book labels on front blanks. [London and Paris: The Bibliophile Society, 1901-04]

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letter j of only 26 registered and lettered sets of the elwood edition. An elegantly illustrated set.