$625
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. 51 vols. 8vo, 3/4 crushed brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-decorated and -lettered spines, t.e.g. Large paper edition, number 49 of 375 copies. With 2pp. tipped-in autographed letter signed ("W.S.") to front of volume one, to "Charles," May, 1816. Volume 51 being "The Country of Sir Walter Scott" by Charles S. Olcott. Engraved plates throughout, color frontispiece. [Together with:] By John Gibson Lockhart. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1901. 10 vols. 8vo, uniformly bound in 3/4 crushed brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-decorated and -lettered spines, t.e.g. Large paper edition, number 378 of 600 copies. Engraved plates throughout. With autographed letter signed ("Lockhart") pasted to tipped in page at front of volume one. Bookplates Christopher Magee Steel tipped to front pastedowns; offsetting from some plates; otherwise very fine with hinges tight on all vols. [61 vols. total]
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2015-08-05
