Sold for:
$138
$138
London: Chapman & Hall, 1837. 8vo, rebound in 3/4 calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, gilt-lettered spine. First English edition in book form, early printing, with all but four points present. Complete with half-title and 42 engraved plates, including frontispiece and engraved title page. ALS from bookseller, noting the early issues of the plates (without titles) and the boy's fork facing downward on the plate facing p. 579, dated January 4, 1939. Foxing to plates and intermittent brownspotting; rubbing to boards; bookseller's sticker to front pastedown; manuscript ex-libris to verso f.f.e.p.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2013-06-19
