18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 2093
 

2093

Lang (Andrew)
The Rainbow Fairy Books, The Folio Society, 2008-13, twelve volumes, four later printings, illustrated by various artists, original decorative cloth, lacking slipcases.

Sold for £1,400
Estimated at £400 - £600


 

Blue 2010 8th printing; Red 2010 2nd printing; Pink 2011 3rd printing; Green 2010 2nd printing.

Crimson - rear top corner slightly bumped, top edge colour has very slightly bled onto rear flyleaf, top edge a little dusty, otherwise near Fine.
Green - textblock slightly rippled as though exposed to high humidity, bubbling and slight colour change to pastedowns top corners of cloth bubbling. 
Orange - textblock slightly warped as though exposed to high humidity, small stain to front pastedown, cloth bubbling at bottom corner of rear board, corners of front corners slightly bumped. 
Brown - textblock slightly rippled as though exposed to high humidity, final leaves and rear endpaper damp stained, rear cloth slightly stained, fore-edge of rear board slightly bumped.
Violet - Fine.
Pink - Fine.
Grey - Fine.
Blue - The slightest of fingermarking to fore-edge, otherwise Fine.
Red - Headband very slightly lifting, otherwise Fine.
Lilac - Fine.
Yellow - Fine.
Olive - Fine.




 


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Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 18th May, 2022

Over 180 lots to include a broad selection, from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, and historic documents. Amongst the highlights is a group of Victorian ephemera including a Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, and a very unusual leaf-cut picture of workers around a derelict tower and trees. Of North-East interest is a collection of approximately 240 19th and early 20th century photographs, and an outstanding archive of early drawings and plans relating to Radcliffe and Broomhill Collieries.

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