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Lot 89
Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$300 -
500
Price Realized
$455
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Lot Description
[Art] Oakley, Violet. The Holy Experiment A Message to the World From Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1922). Limited edition, #317/250 numbered copies of the International Edition, signed by Oakley (from a total of 500), and including the International Supplement and Key to the Holy Experiment laid in. Elephant folio. Text printed in black, red, blue, and in gilt. Illustrated with 22 tipped-in color plates (two folding). Text and plates loose as issued in full tan beveled edged sheepskin portfolio, ruled and decorated in brown, lettered and decorated in gilt, gilt clasps, lightly worn; gilt paper paste-downs; library labels on inner front board; scattered thumb soiling; scattered wear to plates.
A near-fine copy of this monumental work reproducing Oakley's murals in the Pennsylvania State Capitol.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.


