Apr 12, 2012 - Sale 2275
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Sale 2275 - Lot 15

Price Realized: $ 21,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
(BOYDELL & CO.) Tooke, William. Boydell's Picturesque Scenery of Norway. 80 hand-colored aquatint plates by John William Edy, a few watermarked 1828. Half-title lacking. Folio, 425x264 mm, contemporary red straight-grain morocco gilt with palmette border around center lozenge on covers, extremities rubbed, few scratches and dark streaks on covers; title browned, moderate to heavy foxing on some text leaves, plates clean, slight wrinkling in outer margin of plate 16. Dayton Art Institute bookplate. London: Hurst, Robinson and Co. . . . late Boydell and Co., 1820 [i. e., circa 1828]
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Single-volume edition of a work first published in 8 parts and then in 2 volumes, "the most important English colour plate book on Norway" (Tooley). Abbey Travel 254 (this edition); Tooley 103 (2-volume edition).