Apr 07, 2011 - Sale 2242

Sale 2242 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(LALAUZE.) Beaux and Belles of England. 14 volumes. 82 engraved plates, including 40 colored by hand, one folding family tree, 6 folding facsimiles of playbills and a letter. 8vo, dark blue onlaid crushed morocco, by LaLauze, with scrolling foliate borders, red morocco floral onlays at corners and within oval gilt-tooled onlaid centerpieces; gilt turn-ins with floral device, and scarlet morocco doublures and endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; scattered foxing to several preliminaries and occasional minor marginal soiling; ex-collection Edward Laurence and Carrie Estelle Doheny. one of only 17 sets of the princess edition printed by The Grolier Society. London, circa 1900