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Lot 226
Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Mar 5, 2025
Lots Close
Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$300 -
400
Price Realized
$1,280
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Lot Description
[BINDINGS]. A group of 8 finely bound works, comprising:
1) SAINT-PIERRE, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de. Paul and Virginia. London: W.S. Orr & Co., 1839. Later full calf in Cambridge-style; slipcase. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION.
2) GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. London: John van Voorst, 1843. Illustrations by William Mulready. Modern paneled calf gilt, stamp-signed by Root; slipcase.
3) GOLDSMITH. The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. London: John Murray, 1854. 4 volumes. Contemporary polished calf gilt, stamp-signed by Bedford.
4) TROLLOPE, Anthony. Orley Farm. London: Chapman & Hall, 1866. 2 volumes in one. Later full morocco by F. Bedford.
5) BRYCE, James, 1st Viscount Bryce. The American Commonwealth. London and New York: Macmillan & Co., 1888. 3 volumes. Later half morocco. FIRST EDITION.
6) TROLLOPE, Anthony. An Auto-Biography. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1883. 2 volumes. Later half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; slipcase.
GALSWORTHY, John. A Modern Comedy. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1929. Original full vellum; slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 537 of 1,030 copies. SIGNED BY GALSWORTHY.
NEWTON, Alfred Edward. Derby Day and Other Adventures. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1934. Original cloth; slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 1,014 of 1,129 copies. SIGNED BY NEWTON.
Together, 6 works in 12 volumes, all 8vo. Condition generally very fine.
