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March Art & Design Auction

Thu, Mar 29, 2018 02:00PM EDT
Lot 50

Antique Book Lot Fine Leather Binding Poetry Fables

Estimate: $400 - $500

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Group of antique books. Subjects of poetry and fables. Cruikshank, George: Cruikshank's Table Book. Edited by Gilbert A. Beckett. With 12 steel plates and 116 engravings on wood. Original cloth. London, 1869; Lord Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, A Romaunt. London. Printed for John Murray, William Blackwood and John Cumming by Thomas Davison, 1812;  Malory, Sir Thomas: Le Morte Darthur, Part Second and Part Third, published by J.M. Dent and Co., Aldine House, London 1898; Desbillons, Francisci Josephi: Fabulae Aesopiae, 1769; The Poetical Works of George Keate, Esq., Vol. I and Vol. II, London, Printed for J. Dodsley, 1781; Wesley, John: A Collection of Moral and Sacred Poems, First edition, 3 volumes. Woodcut vignettes. With addition table of contents added to volumes I and II in contemporary hand. Contemporary calf covers, rebacked. Briston, 1744; Blackwell, Thomas: An Enquiry Into The Life and Writings of Homer, London, Printed in the year 1736. With folding copper engraved map of the Mediterranean world; Hemans, Felicia: Hemans Poems / The Poetical Works of Mrs. Hemans, Belford, Clarke & Company; Goldsmith, Oliver: The Poetical Works Complete by Oliver Goldsmith, M.B., London, Printed by C. Whittingham, 1804.