Oct 21, 2002 - Sale 1947

Sale 1947 - Lot 107

Price Realized: $ 6,670
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
COBURN, ALVIN LANGDON<>
London.<> Introduction by Hilaire Belloc. Illustrated with 20 photogravures. Folio, rebacked in modern 1/2 green morocco, original gilt-lettered boards, edgewear; front hinge split; plates crisp and clean. first edition.<> London: Duckworth; New York: Brentano's, (1909)

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The first volume issued from Coburn's Thameside Press. All the photogravures were hand-pulled by the author, who states in his autobiography, "I think I may claim that in my hands photogravures produced results which can be considered as 'original prints,' and which I would not hesitate to sign."<