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Auction archive: Lot number 17

SHEPARD, ERNEST H., illustrator ]. BOSWELL, JAMES. Everybody's Boswell: Being the Life of Samuel Johnson... London, 1930. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. 8vo, full light brown morocco, covers with double gilt fillet border around an inner gilt dott...

Auction 21.02.1996
21 Feb 1996
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$460
Auction archive: Lot number 17

SHEPARD, ERNEST H., illustrator ]. BOSWELL, JAMES. Everybody's Boswell: Being the Life of Samuel Johnson... London, 1930. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. 8vo, full light brown morocco, covers with double gilt fillet border around an inner gilt dott...

Auction 21.02.1996
21 Feb 1996
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$460
Beschreibung:

SHEPARD, ERNEST H., illustrator ]. BOSWELL, JAMES. Everybody's Boswell: Being the Life of Samuel Johnson... London, 1930. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard 8vo, full light brown morocco, covers with double gilt fillet border around an inner gilt dotted line border incorporating small decorative gilt cornerpieces, upper cover with central onlaid vari-colored morocco design depicting a waving Dr. Johnson, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated gilt-decorated panel in the rest, board edges and turn-ins gilt, g.e., by BAYNTUN-RIVIERE; cloth slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 139 of 350 large-paper covers signed by Shepard.

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
21 Feb 1996
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
Beschreibung:

SHEPARD, ERNEST H., illustrator ]. BOSWELL, JAMES. Everybody's Boswell: Being the Life of Samuel Johnson... London, 1930. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard 8vo, full light brown morocco, covers with double gilt fillet border around an inner gilt dotted line border incorporating small decorative gilt cornerpieces, upper cover with central onlaid vari-colored morocco design depicting a waving Dr. Johnson, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated gilt-decorated panel in the rest, board edges and turn-ins gilt, g.e., by BAYNTUN-RIVIERE; cloth slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 139 of 350 large-paper covers signed by Shepard.

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
21 Feb 1996
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
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