Nov 09, 2010 - Sale 2229

Sale 2229 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 523
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
ADDISON, JOSEPH. The Works. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Addison in Volume 1 (lightly offsetting onto title); numismatic text woodcuts. 4 volumes. 4to, 281x223 mm, contemporary calf gilt, worn, Volume 1 front cover detached; contents toned and offset with scattered foxing and occasional heavy browning, Volume 4 lacks front free endpaper. Later 18th-/early 19th-century Hay family armorial bookplates; 19th-century signature or initials of William Hay on titles. London: Jacob Tonson, 1721

Additional Details

First collected edition. Large-paper set.