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Lot 80
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$300 -
400
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$469
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Lot Description
[BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. POLLARD, Alfred William (1859-1944). Books about Books. London: Kegan, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1893-1894.
6 volumes, 8vo (227 x 142 mm). Titles printed in red and black; numerous illustrations. Contemporary blue morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, turn-ins gilt, green silk doublures and endpapers, stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf (one volume with short separation to upper joint, spines sunned).
LIMITED EDITION, number 7 of 150 LARGE PAPER COPIES printed on Dutch handmade paper. 6 works, comprising: Charles & Mary Elton. The Great Book Collectors. -- W. J. Hardy. Bookplates. -- Falconer Madan. Books in Manuscript. -- E. Gordon Duff. Early Printed Books. -- Alfred W. Pollard. Early Illustrated Books. -- Herbert P. Horne. The Binding of Books.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation