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Lot 257
Sale 532 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Dec 6, 2017
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$100 -
200
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$125
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[BIBLIOGRAPHY & BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. A group of 13 portraits of booksellers, images of libraries, bookplates, and other book ephemera, including:
View of the British Museum. Hand-colored engraved view. -- "At Hookham's Circulating Library. Old Bond Street." Old library label. n.d. -- Mr. William Coke and Mr. John Guthrie. Engraved plate. -- "Mr. John Sewell. Bookseller of Cornhill." Engraved portrait. Ca 1806. -- "Illustrations for Scrap Books." Hand-colored figure cut out. -- Photographic portrait of W. Legrand, bookseller on Lower Collins Street, Hobart, Tasmania, ca 1900. -- Numerous illustrated printed leaves from books. -- Together, 13 pieces, matted and framed (not examined out of frame).












