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Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020
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[MONASTERY HILL BINDING]. HENEAGE, Jesse John. Memoirs of the Court of England. Boston: Chester F. Rice Co., n.d.
30 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces; numerous plates. Half crimson levant gilt, decorative red cloth boards, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest elaborately gilt-ornamented surrounding central green clover onlays, raised bands gilt, decorative red cloth pastedowns and endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut, BY THE MONASTERY HILL BINDERY, ca 1915.
LIMITED EDITION, number 27 of 100 copies of the "Westminster Edition."
[Bound in to The Reign of the Stuarts, Vol.I:] HENEAGE. ALS to Lady Blessington, 20 July 1847. 2 1/2pp, 8vo, on a bifolium, window mounted. Regarding a forthcoming memoir.
Property from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery