Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 253

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
[THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE.] The Christmas Books. Together, 6 volumes. 8vo, uniformly bound by Zaehnsdorf in near contemporary full red levant morocco, covers triple-ruled in gilt, spines tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, red silk endleaves. Original wrappers bound-in (wrappers mounted), front board of Mrs. Perkins's Ball detached, joints with some wear or cracking, some wear to spines; housed in custom slipcase; from the library of the president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, Frederick S. Winston with his bookplate in each volume and a check signed by his wife, Ada, laid-in. Overall a very good set London, 1847-55
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first editions. Mr. M. A. Titmarsh author credit for each. Comprises: Mrs. Perkins's Ball. With hand-colored plates. Chapman and Hall, 1847 Our Street. With hand-colored plates. Chapman and Hall, 1848 Doctor Birch and His Young Friends. With hand-colored plates. Chapman and Hall, 1849 The Kickleburys on the Rhine. With hand-colored plates. Smith, Elder and Co., 1850 Rebecca and Rowena. With hand-colored plates. Chapman and Hall, 1850 The Rose and the Ring. With black and white plates. Smith, Elder and Co., 1855.