Nov 29, 2007 - Sale 2130

Sale 2130 - Lot 155

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
WIDENER COLLECTION, PETER ARRELL BROWN. Pictures in the Collection at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. 3 volumes. Hundreds of photogravure plates with lettered facing pages. Large, thick folios, handsome burgundy morocco with gilt filleted borders and thistle and scroll designs along spine compartments, gilt turn-ins and watered silk endpapers by rivière & son; cloth slipcases. Philadelphia: Privately printed, 1913-15

Additional Details

a gorgeous set of the complete collection. number 133 of 200 sets printed for private circulation. The volumes include Early German, Dutch, and Flemish Schools; British and Modern French Schools; Early Italian and Spanish Schools.