Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
BORDEN, MATTHEW CHALLONER DURFEE. A Catalogue of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, etc. collected by Matthew C. D. Borden. Frontispieces showing interiors of Borden's library. Half-titles. 2 volumes. Folio, contemporary 3/4 brown morocco gilt by Stikeman; scattered marginal check marks in pencil; cloth slipcase. Bookplates of M. C. D. Borden and William L. Clements. New York: Privately Printed, 1910

Additional Details

one of only fifty numbered sets. Borden''s collection was strong in contemporary fine bindings. Tipped in Volume 1 is a newspaper cutting concerning the results of the 1913 American Art Association sale of the library. Cannon, page 225; Dickinson, page 47.