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Auction archive: Lot number 167

Lamb, Charles] AINGER, Alfred. - The Life and Works of Charles Lamb.

Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$3,929 - US$5,894
Price realised:
£1,500
ca. US$2,947
Auction archive: Lot number 167

Lamb, Charles] AINGER, Alfred. - The Life and Works of Charles Lamb.

Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$3,929 - US$5,894
Price realised:
£1,500
ca. US$2,947
Beschreibung:

The Life and Works of Charles Lamb.
New York: The Lamb Publishing Company, Printed for Subcribers Only, [1888]. 12 volumes. 8vo (230 x 160 mm). Illustrated with plates. Bound in full leather ("Bally Leather 1912" written in pencil to front free endpaper), covers with elaborate gilt cornerpieces, spines elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt with 5 raised bands triple-stamped in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Condition: title with offset of frontispiece, plates with some browning from tissue; very few scuffs to leather. Provenance: M. Lichtenstein (hand-colored signature to limitation page); McCrea Family (pencil signatures). the india house edition of lamb's works in full leather, number 60 of 130 copies. Finely bound and a very bright set.

Auction archive: Lot number 167
Auction:
Datum:
25 Jun 2008
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

The Life and Works of Charles Lamb.
New York: The Lamb Publishing Company, Printed for Subcribers Only, [1888]. 12 volumes. 8vo (230 x 160 mm). Illustrated with plates. Bound in full leather ("Bally Leather 1912" written in pencil to front free endpaper), covers with elaborate gilt cornerpieces, spines elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt with 5 raised bands triple-stamped in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Condition: title with offset of frontispiece, plates with some browning from tissue; very few scuffs to leather. Provenance: M. Lichtenstein (hand-colored signature to limitation page); McCrea Family (pencil signatures). the india house edition of lamb's works in full leather, number 60 of 130 copies. Finely bound and a very bright set.

Auction archive: Lot number 167
Auction:
Datum:
25 Jun 2008
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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