$123
Theater Biography, Four Titles in Eight Volumes: Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick , by Thomas Davies, London: for the author, 1781, octavo, third edition, in two volumes, extra-illustrated with a portrait of Garrick on vellum, seven watercolor drawings and 100 added engraved plates, bound in later red morocco, spines disintegrating, boards detached, housed in a battered buckram slipcase; Boaden's Life of Mrs. Jordan , London, 1831, in two volumes, contemporary quarter navy calf, front board of volume one detached, other hinges tender; another copy of Davies' Memoirs of the Life of Garrick , London, 1808, in two volumes, browned, untrimmed, rebacked, in contemporary marbled boards; and Symonds' translation of the Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi , London, 1890, in two volumes, numbered 145, with a portrait and six etchings by Lalauze, and eleven additional illustrations by Sand, engraved by Manceau and hand-colored, in publisher's calf spines and decorative stamped gilt green cloth boards.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
