Nov 17, 2020 - Sale 2551

Sale 2551 - Lot 272

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
BOYDELL, JOHN. Boydell's Graphic Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare. Frontispiece, portrait, and 98 engraved plates (with the additional plate of Romeo and Juliet by Blake). Folio, period 1/2 morocco, spine tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, rather scuffed with scattered abrasions and soiling, wear heaviest to joints and spine tips internally quite good but for foxing at the edges and margins, front joint separating; bottom edge of frontis crimped from splitting, internally shows moderate foxing, heaviest to early signatures and chiefly marginal. London: Messrs. Boydell & Co., [1803]