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Sale 5724
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Estimate$600 – $900
London: Jones and Co., 1833. In two volumes. 4to. Profusely illustrated with black and white engravings. Bound in full scarlet morocco, elaborately gilt; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; text likely washed; enclosed in cloth-covered slip case; by Bennett. A fine set.
A lovely example from The Bennett Book Studios, a fine book bindery in New York City established in the late 1920s by bookman and binder Whitman Bennett (1884-1968).
From the library of bibliophile and long-standing Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003).
![[Fine Bindings] [Bennett] [Hogarth, William] The Works of William Hogarth; in a Series of Engravings: With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency, by the Rev. John Trusler. To Which are Added, Anecdotes of the Author...](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/f37f37c3-165d-4e51-917c-2d6c1ecb620e?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)
![[Fine Bindings] [Bennett] [Hogarth, William] The Works of William Hogarth; in a Series of Engravings: With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency, by the Rev. John Trusler. To Which are Added, Anecdotes of the Author...](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/98083e87-698f-4165-bef2-649d7c9e5ed8?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)
![[Fine Bindings] [Bennett] [Hogarth, William] The Works of William Hogarth; in a Series of Engravings: With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency, by the Rev. John Trusler. To Which are Added, Anecdotes of the Author...](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/95efaae7-c7b7-4932-b7e3-64792f3c715a?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)