Jun 14, 2016 - Sale 2419

Sale 2419 - Lot 188

Price Realized: $ 188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
FOSTER, BIRKET. Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape. Verses by Tom Taylor. 30 India proof plates by Foster, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers, printed on the hand press from original wood blocks. Folio, publisher's decorated vellum, soiled and rubbed; scattered light finger soiling. Out-of-series copy from the india proof edition of 1000 copies. London: Routledge, (1881)

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with--Bunyan, Paul. The Pilgrim's Progress. Wood-engraved proof illustrations by the Dalziel Brothers after Frederick Barnard and others on Japanese paper. Large 4to, gilt-stamped 1/2 vellum over parchment boards, spotted, hinges starting; endpapers heavily foxed; custom chemise and slipcase. Number 43 of 500 copies of the Edition de Luxe. London: Strahan, 1880.