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Lot 254
Sale 5567 - Books, Prints & Ephemera
May 23, 2003
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$600 -
900
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$1,600
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Lot Description
5 vols.
Ar...
5 vols.
Arabian Nights. London: William Bulmer & Co., Shakespeare Press, 1802. Translated by Edward Forster. Large paper copy. 4to, contemp. full gilt-paneled green straight-grained morocco, a.e.g., with gilt arms of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury on covers & with his crest on spines; scuffed, joints & spine ends occasionally lightly rubbed, by H. Walther, with his ticket. 24 plates after Robert Smirke, lettered tissue guards; occasional light foxing to plates, offsetting on tissue guards. 3 leaves in vol. 1 (pp. 249-250; 367-370) lacking, supplied in facsimilie.
See Printing and the Mind of Man, BM Exhibition, no. 138.