Sold for:
$5,124
$5,124
Newcastle: Emerson Charnley, 1820. 8vo, full brown crushed morocco ruled in gilt with circular inset design with an onlaid lion head on the upper cover, surrounded by the moral from "The Lion and the Mouse," and a diamond inset design of a serpent on the back with the title of the fable "The Viper & the File," with eight jewels, including four garnets on the upper cover and four turquoises on the rear cover, circular inset with onlaid lizards on front inner covers surrounded by the moral of "The Two Lizards," and rear inner cover with "The Sun & the Vapour" in circular inset, snake-skin endpapers, goffered edges.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2012-04-04
