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Lot 169
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$400 -
600
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$375
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Lot Description
[FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS]. WILLIAMSON, George C. (1858-1942) The Imperial Russian Dinner Service. A Story of a Famous Work by Josiah Wedgwood. London: George Bell and Sons, 1909.
4to. Chromolithographed frontispiece, numerous halftone plates. Quarter vellum over green cloth boards, spine gilt-lettered, top edge gilt. LIMITED EDITION, one of 10 copies printed on Japanese vellum.
[With:]
ERSKINE, Beatrice Caroline (1860-1948). Lady Diana Beauclerk. Her Life and Work. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. 4to. Color frontispiece, numerous color plates and in-text illustrations, title-page printed in red and black. (Some spotting to a few leaves.) Original maroon gilt-decorated cloth, top edge gilt (corners slightly bumped, some rubbing to edges, very light sunning to spine). FIRST EDITION.
Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois