Sold for:
$4,392
$4,392
A fine complete set of five costume books by William Alexander, complete with 274 hand-colored aquatint plates. London: Printed for John Murray by William Bulmer, 1814. 5 vols. 4to, uniformly bound in green straight grain morocco elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, a.e.g. , comprising: 50 plates including title. 60 plates. 50 plates. Front board detached. 50 plates including title. [ ] 50 plates. Lacking title page; head of spine detached. [ ] 64 plates. Lacking title page and index. Some intermittent foxing, not affecting the plates; rubbing to boards with loss to edges of spine; otherwise fine, unless indicated above.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2011-04-05
