$1,476
Decorative Bindings, Sets, Thirteen Titles in Sixty-three Volumes. Sets and single volumes in full and half leather, spines gilt-tooled and lettered, including Thierry's Histoire de la Conquete de l'Angleterre , Paris, 1843, in four volumes, third edition; The Works of Edward Gibbon , New York [1906-1907], fifteen volumes, connoisseur edition, one of 105 numbered sets; Symonds's The Renaissance in Italy , London, 1897-98, seven volumes; Milton's Paradise Lost , London, 1802, in two volumes, illustrated; James Stuart's The Antiquities of Athens , London, 1858, illustrated, third edition; The Works of Edgar Allan Poe , Edinburgh, 1883, in four volumes; Krauss's Geist der Osterreichischen , Vienna, 1838, in gilt-tooled full red morocco; Ruskin's Stones of Venice , New York, no date, three volumes, illustrated; MacPherson's Poems of Ossian , Glasgow/London, 1824, two volumes, illustrated; The Poetical Works of John Keats , London, 1894-1895; Zipfer's Franz der Erste , Stuttgart, 1836; and Charles Knight's London , London, 1841-44, in six volumes, illustrated; all volumes smaller than folio format, varying conditions and bindings, occupying approximately eight feet of shelf space. (63)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-11-16
