Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 89

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Richardson, Samuel (1689-1761)
Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady.

London: Printed for Samuel Richardson and sold by A. Millar, J. & Ja. Rivington, John Osborn, and J. Leake, 1748.

First edition, seven 12mo volumes bound in full contemporary uniform speckled calf, each rebacked to style, rebacking work rubbed; front board of first volume detached; corners mended; leaf L12 in volume VI cancelled; final leaf of volume IV torn away with loss to about four lines of text; folding engraved sheet of music in volume II; ex libris renowned book collector and author A. Edward Newton, with his "Hobby Rider" bookplate pasted inside the front of each volume; 6 1/2 x 3 7/8 in. (7)

ESTC T58992; Sale 32.

Ex libris Christopher Clark Geest (1936-2023)