Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 224

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(SPORTING.) Alken, Henry. Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man. One prefatory leaf of verse, 7 engraved plates colored by hand. Oblong 4to, original stitched printed paper wrappers, spine restored, some creasing and light soiling; minor foxing and smudging to plates, chiefly marginal, narrow dog-ear to upper outer corners of first two plates; housed in custom red cloth gilt-lettered folding portfolio (abraded bookplate within). London: E. and C. M'Lean, 1824

Additional Details

first edition. an untrimmed copy with clean, bright plates. Tooley 47; Abbey, Life 256.