28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 107
 

107

Bindings. Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Edited by Robert Bell, London: Charles Griffin...

Bindings. Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Edited by Robert Bell, London: Charles Griffin and Co., c.1880. 8 volumes in 4, 8vo, contemporary half vellum gilt, volume 1 front joint partially split - The Comprehensive Story of England ... from the Earliest Period to the Suppression of the Sepoy Revolt. By Charles Macfarlane, and Thomas Thomson, London: Blackie and Son, 1872. 4 volumes, large 8vo, contemporary straight-grain purple roan by Hughes of Pontypool (rubbed and scuffed) - The Poetical Works of the Late Robert Burns, with an Account of his Life. A New Edition, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M. Angus & Son, 1802. 8vo, modern quarter leather, engraved portrait frontispiece and vignette title-page - Scientific Lectures and Essays. By Charles Kingsley, London: Macmillan and Co., 1898. 8vo, contemporary prize binding of blue calf, crest of Alleyn's School (Dulwich) gilt to front board - and approximately 19 others, mainly English literature, 19th-century editions, all leather-bound, including Walter Scott, Wavervely Novels, Large Type Border Edition, 1910, 24 volumes, contemporary green half calf by Ramage (spines sunned and rubbed, volumes 1 and 9 front boards and volume 3 rear board detached), Alexander Pope, The Iliad [and] Odyssey, 1853-4 (contemporary calf, rebacked, bee devices gilt to front covers), and similar (qty: 65 volumes) The lot not collated and sold as a collection of leather bindings.

Sold for £220
Estimated at £200 - £300


 

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