Lot 257
Bindings, mostly leather, c. 129 volumes, including
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 6 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
£1,000
Description
The Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1910-11. 29 vol., 4to, Eleventh edition, maroon morocco gilt; Lamartine, A. de Twenty-five years of my life. 1872. 2 vol., 8vo, half calf gilt; Maginn, W. John Manesty. 1844. 2 vol., 8vo, plates by George Cruikshank, calf gilt by Root & Son, t.e.g.; A'Beckett, G.A. The comic Blackstone. 1887. 8vo, calf gilt, t.e.g.; Boswell, J. Life of Johnson. Oxford, 1887. 5 vol., 8vo, green quarter morocco gilt, t.e.g.; and c. 90 others, mixed condition (c.129)