Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 176

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
[HEATH, HENRY.] Omnium Gatherum. First and Second series [complete]. Engraved throughout with etched pictorial title and 13 plates by Henry Heath incorporating numerous vignettes, all hand-colored. Oblong 4to, full polished tan calf gilt, by Riviere & Son, all edges gilt, 3-inch ring stain to front cover, extremities slightly rubbed, partial loss at spine tips; very occasional spotting to plates; Cornelia Otis Skinner bookplate on front pastedown. first edition of the rarest of the Heath colored plate books. [London: Published by Charles Tilt, c. 1840]

Additional Details

with--Old Ways and New Ways. 6 hand-colored plates, lacking title. Oblong 4to, 1/2 brown morocco over marbled boards, board extremities and corners rubbed, spine tips chipped; top edges gilt; Skinner bookplate.