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Lot 38
Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$300 -
400
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$594
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Lot Description
[MONASTERY HILL BINDING]. SURTEES, Robert Smith (1803-1864). [SPORTING NOVELS]. Ask Mamma. -- Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour. -- Mr. Romford’s Hounds. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [ca 1852 or later].
3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo. Profusely illustrated with hand-colored steel-engraved plates and in-text woodcut illustrations by John Leech and H.K. Browne. (Scant spotting.) Uniformly bound in red morocco, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest plain, edges gauffered and gilt (some minor scuffing); original cloth covers bound in.
Property from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery