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Lot 50
Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
[MOUNTENEY BINDING]. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). Wonder Book for Girls and Boys. Walter Crane, illustrator. Boston: Houghton MIfflin & Company, 1892.
8vo. Frontispiece and 60 illustrations printed in color after Walter Crane (some minor internal spotting). Half rust levant gilt, patterned paper boards, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest elaborately gilt-tooled, decorative paper pastedowns and endpapers, edges gilt, BY LEONARD MOUNTENEY.
Illustrated edition.
Property from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery