Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
APPERLEY, CHARLES JAMES. Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. ... By Nimrod. Illustrated with 18 color plates by Henry Alken and T.J. Rawlins, additional engraved title with aquatint vignette. 8vo, full dark green crushed morocco, gilt fillet borders, spines richly tooled in gilt in compartments, inner dentelles, front doublure consists of the original green cloth cover, all edges gilt, minor shelfwear to edges; rear hinge starting. London: Ackermann, 1837

Additional Details

a large-paper copy of the second edition that includes the nine additional plates not found in the first edition. First issue, with date at foot of spine; and with the leaf "List of Plates" and 6 pages of advertisements at end. An attractive copy with the original cover cleverly retained. Abbey Life 385; Tooley 67.