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Auction archive: Lot number 60

The Spectator A New Edition in Eight Volumes with Illustrati...

Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$313
Auction archive: Lot number 60

The Spectator A New Edition in Eight Volumes with Illustrati...

Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$313
Beschreibung:

The Spectator. A New Edition in Eight Volumes with Illustrative Notes. To which are prefixed, The Lives of the Authors, By Robert Bisset, A.M. London: Printed for George Robertson 1793.
The Spectator. A New Edition in Eight Volumes with Illustrative Notes. To which are prefixed, The Lives of the Authors, By Robert Bisset, A.M. London: Printed for George Robertson 1793. 8 volumes, 8 o (207 x 128 mm). 8 Engraved titles, half titles in volumes 3-8 (lacking letterpress title pages in volumes 2-8, lacking a few preliminary leaves, bound with duplicate S gathering in volume 7, some spotting throughout). Contemporary tree calf (rebacked). Provenance: Willm. Walker (bookseller's ticket on front pastedown). Bisset's Biographical Sketch of the Authors of the Spectator , in the first volume of an eight-volume edition of the Spectator , included sketches of Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele Thomas Parnell, John Hughes Eustace Budgell, Laurence Eusden, Thomas Tickell and Alexander Pope (8)

Auction archive: Lot number 60
Auction:
Datum:
18 May 2012
Auction house:
Christie's
18 May 2012, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

The Spectator. A New Edition in Eight Volumes with Illustrative Notes. To which are prefixed, The Lives of the Authors, By Robert Bisset, A.M. London: Printed for George Robertson 1793.
The Spectator. A New Edition in Eight Volumes with Illustrative Notes. To which are prefixed, The Lives of the Authors, By Robert Bisset, A.M. London: Printed for George Robertson 1793. 8 volumes, 8 o (207 x 128 mm). 8 Engraved titles, half titles in volumes 3-8 (lacking letterpress title pages in volumes 2-8, lacking a few preliminary leaves, bound with duplicate S gathering in volume 7, some spotting throughout). Contemporary tree calf (rebacked). Provenance: Willm. Walker (bookseller's ticket on front pastedown). Bisset's Biographical Sketch of the Authors of the Spectator , in the first volume of an eight-volume edition of the Spectator , included sketches of Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele Thomas Parnell, John Hughes Eustace Budgell, Laurence Eusden, Thomas Tickell and Alexander Pope (8)

Auction archive: Lot number 60
Auction:
Datum:
18 May 2012
Auction house:
Christie's
18 May 2012, New York, Rockefeller Center
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