May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 128

Price Realized: $ 4,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. Works. 13 volumes. Illustrated with photogravures, the plates in two states, uncolored and colored, additional hand-coloring on limitation vignettes and titles, lettered tissue guards. 8vo, contemporary full brown morocco, elaborate repeating floral motif on covers, spines similarly gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut, full brown morocco doublures and endleaves gilt, marbled flyleaves, top edges gilt, several volumes with small touch-ups to spine tips, hinges expertly restored, gilt title rubbed on one vol. with white overpainting; LMS booklabels on flyleaf verso, contents clean. New York: D. Appleton and Company, (1902)

Additional Details

number 14 of 25 edinburgh sets from the author's edition. The scarcest of the Doyle collected works editions, copies in commerce are rare.