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Lot 52

Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022 5:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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[Children's & Illustrated] [Browne, Hablot Knight] Thomson, David Croal Life and Labours of Hablot Knight Browne "Phiz"

New York: Scribner and Welford, 1885. First and limited edition, #69/250 numbered copies, signed and numbered by the author. Folio. 245, (3) pp. Original Hablot Knight Browne pencil drawing mounted to front paste-down. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait etching, signed by the artist in pencil, 35 plates, and numerous small in-text illustrations. Original speckled tan cloth, stamped in black and in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; front hinge split but sound, rear hinge starting.

From the library of bibliophile and long-standing Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003).

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