Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 191

Price Realized: $ 576
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
NORTHCOTE, JAMES. One Hundred Fables. Together, 2 volumes. Titles with woodcut vignettes, the first in red and black, profusely illustrated with wood-engraved vignettes and initials by William Harvey after Northcote. Tall 8vo, later 19th century citron morocco, triple gilt-fillet rules, spines gilt-tooled in compartments with morocco lettering labels in 2, all edges gilt, inner dentelles, scattered spotting to covers, minor rubbing to extremities, small dent at one edge; large armorial bookplates of Arthur T. and Magdalen F. Bevan, and small monogrammed bookplates of W.R.H. Jeudwine to front pastedowns. first editions, large-paper copies. "Handsome set, particularly on large paper." Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England 55-56. London, 1828; 1833