Oct 14, 2010 - Sale 2225

Sale 2225 - Lot 317

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ONE OF ONLY 5 SETS (TICE, CLARA.) La Fontaine, Jean de. Tales and Novels. 2 volumes. Two original drawings Signed by Tice (as frontispieces) and 12 hand-colored erotic etchings. 4to, 3/4 publisher's blue morocco gilt with design of a naked woman in center compartment, quite scuffed with some loss of color and leather at bands and spine ends but could be restored; top edges trimmed and gilt; owner's gift inscription on front blank of first volume. Nijmegen, Holland: Privately printed at G. J. Thieme, 1929
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copy number five of only five choicest falstaff connoisseur collectors sets with the two original Signed drawings and the suite of 12 beautiful hand-colored etchings. There was a separate edition of 100.