Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL. A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany. 83 plates (heavily offsetting onto adjacent leaves, some plates heavily foxed); numerous text illustrations, mostly mounted India-proofs. Half-titles in second and third volumes, not called for in the first. 3 volumes. 8vo, contemporary green morocco gilt with border of concentric double fillets on covers, spines similarly decorated, scuffed, extremities rubbed, covers starting. London, 1821

Additional Details

first edition; octavo issue, one of 900 sets. Jackson 48; Windle & Pippin A38a. With the suite of fifty-two mounted india-proof etched plates (numbered 1-60) from George Lewis's 1823 A Series of Groups, illustrating the Physiognomy, Manners, and Character of the People of France and Germany, with the letterpress preliminaries and engraved dedication bound in.