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Lot 72
Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022
5:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$600 -
900
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$2,016
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Lot Description
[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...
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).