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Lot 248
Sale 437 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 5, 2016
9:59AM
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400
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$375
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Lot Description
(FORE EDGE) BURNS, ROBERT
The Poetical Works. Chiswick: C. Whittingham, 1821.2 vols. 16mo, full green calf stamped with central arabesque cartouche in blind, glit-lettere black leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, custom cloth slipcase. Fore edge paintings of Burns' birthplace (vol. 1) and a harbor at Ayot (vol. 2). John Singer Sargent copy, with his bookplate to front pastedowns. Rear cover starting to detach vol. 1 and other hinges tender; rubbing to boards; spines faded.



