Apr 19, 2007 - Sale 2110

Sale 2110 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL. Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books . . . in the Library of George John Earl Spencer. 23 plates, including dedication; numerous text illustrations (though lacking mounted India proof on page 79 in Volume 1 as usual). Half-titles; 2 leaves of errata in Volume 3, one in Volume 4. 4 volumes * Aedes Althorpianae. 32 plates; numerous text illustrations, mostly mounted India proofs. Half-titles; errata leaf in Volume 2. 2 volumes * A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books printed in the Fifteenth Century, lately forming Part of the Library of the Duke di Cassano Serra, and now the Property of George John Earl Spencer, K.G. Half-title not called for. Together, 7 volumes. 4to, 262x175 mm, contemporary uniform 1/2 crimson morocco gilt, spines faded and scuffed; some offsetting from plates, some plates foxed. Walter Wilson and O. O. Fisher bookplates. (EHLS) London, 1814-15; 1822; 1823

Additional Details

first edition, regular issue. one of 500 sets.