Apr 12, 2012 - Sale 2275

Sale 2275 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
HUNT, LEIGH. A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla. Wood-engraved additional title, historiated initials, and decorations by Richard Doyle. Half-title. 8vo, publisher's chromolithographed cream boards after design by Owen Jones, gilt floral endpapers; contents clean; cloth slipcase. Warwick James Price bookplate. exceptionally well-preserved copy, unrestored, with only the slightest wear to the spine ends, and the upper outer cover corners bumped. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1848

Additional Details

first edition, in the original boards. McLean (1972), page 220 and plate 15; Morris & Levin 132.