Jun 17, 2010 - Sale 2217

Sale 2217 - Lot 379

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(FORE-EDGE PAINTING.) Falconer, William. The Shipwreck . . . A New Edition. Engraved illustrations by Richard Westall. 8vo, contemporary brown morocco with elaborate gilt borders and spine compartments, some surface scuffing, mostly to edges and joints; scattered foxing; bookseller's ticket of R. Jenings, Poultry. London, 1811

Additional Details

with double fore-edge paintings of the shipwreck off Tantallon Castle on one side and that off Turnbury Castle on the other. Some mottling but still good.