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Auction archive: Lot number 385

EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED]. CEDRIC CHIVERS OF BATH, binder . DICKENS, CHARLES. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman and Hall 1870. 8vo, 220 x 146 x 40mm. (8 5/8 x 5 3/4 x 1 9/16in.), green morocco, covers with double gilt fillet, upper cover with a ci...

Auction 05.12.1991
5 Dec 1991
Estimate
US$700 - US$900
Price realised:
US$880
Auction archive: Lot number 385

EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED]. CEDRIC CHIVERS OF BATH, binder . DICKENS, CHARLES. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman and Hall 1870. 8vo, 220 x 146 x 40mm. (8 5/8 x 5 3/4 x 1 9/16in.), green morocco, covers with double gilt fillet, upper cover with a ci...

Auction 05.12.1991
5 Dec 1991
Estimate
US$700 - US$900
Price realised:
US$880
Beschreibung:

EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED]. CEDRIC CHIVERS OF BATH, binder . DICKENS, CHARLES. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman and Hall 1870. 8vo, 220 x 146 x 40mm. (8 5/8 x 5 3/4 x 1 9/16in.), green morocco, covers with double gilt fillet, upper cover with a circular gilt and painted central medallion with the arms of the city of Rochester, small orange morocco gilt onlaid corner ornaments, lower cover undecorated; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a decorative panel with a triple orange onlay in the rest; board edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, g.e., stamp-signed by the binder on lower turn-in, back darkened. FIRST EDITION, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED WITH 15 PENCIL AND WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS OF ROCHESTER SCENES, DICKENS'S BOOK PLATE AND THE SPECIAL TITLE-PAGE, 4 MONOCHROME DRAWINGS and 4 engravings in addition to the 12 published illustrations by S. Luke Fildes and the Dickens portrait; an A.L.s by Fildes tipped in and an inlaid theatre programme bound in, plus a portrait of H. Beerbohm Tree and 2 pages of typed notes by Robert Langdon---[JACKSON, HENRY]. About Edwin Drood, Cambridge 1911, bound at end. (Maxwell)

Auction archive: Lot number 385
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 1991
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED]. CEDRIC CHIVERS OF BATH, binder . DICKENS, CHARLES. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman and Hall 1870. 8vo, 220 x 146 x 40mm. (8 5/8 x 5 3/4 x 1 9/16in.), green morocco, covers with double gilt fillet, upper cover with a circular gilt and painted central medallion with the arms of the city of Rochester, small orange morocco gilt onlaid corner ornaments, lower cover undecorated; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a decorative panel with a triple orange onlay in the rest; board edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, g.e., stamp-signed by the binder on lower turn-in, back darkened. FIRST EDITION, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED WITH 15 PENCIL AND WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS OF ROCHESTER SCENES, DICKENS'S BOOK PLATE AND THE SPECIAL TITLE-PAGE, 4 MONOCHROME DRAWINGS and 4 engravings in addition to the 12 published illustrations by S. Luke Fildes and the Dickens portrait; an A.L.s by Fildes tipped in and an inlaid theatre programme bound in, plus a portrait of H. Beerbohm Tree and 2 pages of typed notes by Robert Langdon---[JACKSON, HENRY]. About Edwin Drood, Cambridge 1911, bound at end. (Maxwell)

Auction archive: Lot number 385
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 1991
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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