Lot 30
Bindings
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
Masefield, John. Poems. New York: Macmillan, 1953. 8vo., 4 volumes, contemporary blue half morocco gilt, some rubbing to joints and edges; Maxwell, Herbert, Sir Memories of the months. London: Edward Arnold, 1901-1903. 8vo., 3 volumes, plates, contemporary vellum with gilt tooled foliate border decoration, some marginal spotting and soiling to covers; Du Maurier, George The Martian. London: Harper & Brothers, 1898; Trilby. London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1895; Peter Ibbetson. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896. 8vo., plates, contemporary green morocco gilt, blue cloth gilt spines and covers attached to endpapers and preserved, spines faded, joints cracking, occasional spotting; Poe, Edgar Allan Complete works. London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. 8vo., 10 volumes, contemporary red morocco, spines gilt, t.e.g., some darkening to edges of covers and pages, some joints cracked with a few covers detaching; Wharton, Grace and Philip The wits and beaux of society. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, [1860?] 8vo., 2 volumes, plates, later blue half morocco gilt, some slight rubbing to covers; Strachey, Lytton Queen Victoria. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1921.; Eminent Victorians. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918; Elizabeth and Essex... New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., [1928]; Books and Characters... New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922.; 8vo., red half morocco, spines gilt, slight soiling to spines and rubbing to some spines and corners (23)
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire