May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
DRYDEN, JOHN. The Fables . . . Ornamented with Engravings from the Pencil of the Right Hon. Lady Diana Beauclerc. 9 stipple-engraved plates and 18 head- and tailpieces by Bartolozzi and others after Beauclerc. [2], xviii, 241 pages. Folio, 362x254 mm, contemporary red straight-grain morocco with wide border of ornamental tools on covers, somewhat worn, spine ends chipped, front joint cracked; heavy offsetting from plates, lighter offsetting from vignettes, scattered foxing. Joseph Spencer Graydon bookplate. London: T. Bensley for J. Edwards and E. Harding, 1797