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Lot 220

Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Mar 5, 2025
Lots Close
Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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Estimate
$200 - 300
Price Realized
$3,520
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Lot Description

[BINDINGS - RECLAIMED WOOD]. A pair of titles, comprising:


1) BUNYAN, John. Pilgrim's Progress. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. 8vo. Illustrations by Joseph Swain after Charles Bennett. 20th century brown morocco, covers with large wooden panels stamped in blind "Warranted made of the oak taken from Elstow Church previous to restoration 1880" and with a mounted portrait of Bunyan, spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, all edges gilt.

2) BURNS, Robert. The Scottish Keepsake or The Songs of The Ayrshire Bard. Ayrshire: William and Andrew Smith, n.d. [ca 1860?]. 32mo. Red morocco-backed pictorial wooden boards "made from the rafters of Burns' cottage."

Together, 2 works in 2 volumes, both bound with reclaimed wood related to the authors, condition generally fine.


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