Decorative Bindings, Twenty-two Volumes.

Description:

Decorative Bindings, Twenty-two Volumes. Including the following titles: Dickens's David Copperfield, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850; Limited Edition Club's Through the Looking-Glass, 1935 signed by Alice Hargreaves, binding damaged; Owen Jones's The Grammar of Ornament, London: Quaritch, 1868, folio, color illustrations, ex library, in cloth; Hotten's Slang Dictionary, London: Chatto & Windus, 1874; Parton's Humorous Poetry of the English Language, Boston: Osgood, 1872; Targ and Marks's Ten Thousand Rare Books and their Prices, Chicago: Black Archer Press, 1936; Parton's The Life and Times of Aaron Burr, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1898, in two volumes; and thirteen other volumes, mostly odd volumes from sets. (22)
Estimate $300-500


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