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Auction archive: Lot number 173

ELIOT, GEORGE [i.e., Marion Evans]. Romola. London, 1863. 3 vols., green cloth, spines a bit darkened, rubbed, inner hinges cracked; half morocco slipcase. PRESUMABLY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY'S COPY, with small circular embossed monogram of "WMT" ...

Auction 15.10.1997
15 Oct 1997
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$2,760
Auction archive: Lot number 173

ELIOT, GEORGE [i.e., Marion Evans]. Romola. London, 1863. 3 vols., green cloth, spines a bit darkened, rubbed, inner hinges cracked; half morocco slipcase. PRESUMABLY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY'S COPY, with small circular embossed monogram of "WMT" ...

Auction 15.10.1997
15 Oct 1997
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$2,760
Beschreibung:

ELIOT, GEORGE [i.e., Marion Evans]. Romola. London, 1863. 3 vols., green cloth, spines a bit darkened, rubbed, inner hinges cracked; half morocco slipcase. PRESUMABLY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY'S COPY, with small circular embossed monogram of "WMT" with crest at top of each title-page and with "W.M. Thackeray's Copy" written in ink in an unidentified hand on inside front cover of vol. 1; bookplate of Morris L. Parrish in each vol. (that in vol. 1 obscuring a few letters in the above handwritten note). Sadleir 817; Wolff 2061 -- The Mill on the Floss. Edinburgh, 1860. 3 vols., cinnamon cloth, vol. 2 very worn, top of spine of vol. 1 worn, labels removed from inside rear covers of vols. 1 and 3; cloth slipcase. Carter's B Binding; without the inserted ad leaf in vol. 1 found in some copies. Carter, Binding Variants, pp. 110-111; Sadleir 816; Wolff 2060. Together 6 vols., 8vo, original cloth. FIRST EDITIONS. (6)

Auction archive: Lot number 173
Auction:
Datum:
15 Oct 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
Beschreibung:

ELIOT, GEORGE [i.e., Marion Evans]. Romola. London, 1863. 3 vols., green cloth, spines a bit darkened, rubbed, inner hinges cracked; half morocco slipcase. PRESUMABLY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY'S COPY, with small circular embossed monogram of "WMT" with crest at top of each title-page and with "W.M. Thackeray's Copy" written in ink in an unidentified hand on inside front cover of vol. 1; bookplate of Morris L. Parrish in each vol. (that in vol. 1 obscuring a few letters in the above handwritten note). Sadleir 817; Wolff 2061 -- The Mill on the Floss. Edinburgh, 1860. 3 vols., cinnamon cloth, vol. 2 very worn, top of spine of vol. 1 worn, labels removed from inside rear covers of vols. 1 and 3; cloth slipcase. Carter's B Binding; without the inserted ad leaf in vol. 1 found in some copies. Carter, Binding Variants, pp. 110-111; Sadleir 816; Wolff 2060. Together 6 vols., 8vo, original cloth. FIRST EDITIONS. (6)

Auction archive: Lot number 173
Auction:
Datum:
15 Oct 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
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