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Decorative Bindings, Eighteen Volumes. Octavo volumes, small sets and individual works, most bound in full and half leather (some cloth),including The Life of Jane de St. Remy de Valois, Countess de la Motte, London: Bew, 1791, in two volumes; Memoirs of Lady Hamilton, London: for Colburn, 1815, in full leather, with some clippings added to blank leaves added before the title, in full leather; Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette, London: for Colburn, 1824, in two volumes, half leather; Stone's Chronicles of Fashion, London: Bentley, 1846, in full red calf; and eleven other volumes, occupying approximately 21 1/2 in. of shelf space. (18)
Estimate $200-300
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Fine Books & Manuscripts
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