$3,250
[with] Translated by John Payne. London: Printed for Subscribers Only (Athenaeum Publishing) [The Villon Society], 1884 and 1889. 13 vols. comprising (9 vols.) (3 vols.) and (1 vol.). 8vo, finely bound in magnificent full brown morocco inlaid with green, black, and red detailing with a central arabesque design to boards, with elaborate gilt-floriate borders and tooling, gilt-tooled and -lettered spines, with green and blue inlaid morocco doublures bordered and stamped in gilt, t.e.g., silk endpapers. Limited edition, this being copy "A" of 26 copies. With 21 original engravings by Lalauze. Additionally bound with two states of the seventy illustrations of Albert Letchford, seventy of which are hand-colored. Minor edgewear; rubbing to raised bands , some vols.; hinges slightly cracked; minor chipping to top of spine, Thousand Nights, vol. 5; light offsetting from some plates to tissue guards.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2015-05-07
