Apr 14, 2005 - Sale 2038

Sale 2038 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Peter Bell, a Tale in Verse. Engraved frontispiece by J. C. Bromley after a painting by Sir George Beaumont. iv, 88 pages. 8vo, 19th-century 1/2 red morocco gilt, scuffed, joints starting; right margin of frontispiece repaired, scattered foxing, heaviest to preliminaries; owner's gift inscription card mounted to front endpaper; lacks half-title as common. first edition, first printing with the pagination of page iv misaligned. London: 1819