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Fine & Decorative Arts, Furniture and Antiques

Fri, Jun 9, 2017 06:30PM EDT - Sat, Jun 10, 2017 06:30PM EDT
Lot 127

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LEATHER VOLUMES

Estimate: $200 - $300

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $5
$30 $10
$100 $25
$400 $50
$900 $100
$2,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,500
$50,000 $5,000
$150,000 $10,000
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN, LEATHER VOLUMES, "ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS", "LYRICS OF IRELAND" AND "THE BAB BALLADS", (3):includes: "English and Scottish Popular Ballads", 1904, full leather bound with raised bands with gilt trim and full gilt edges. Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge. Edited from the collection of Frances James Child, by Helen Child Sargent and George Lyman Kittredge, 8 1/2" H. x 6" W. "Lyrics Of Ireland" by Samuel Lover, 1858, Full green leather, marbled boards raised bands on gilt spine. Gilt trim on outside and inside edge of boards. Gilt pages. Publisher: Houlson & Wright, London. "Edited and Annotated by Samuel Lover", 7 1/2" H. x 5 1/4" W. With green slip case. Third volume by W.S. Gilbert "The Bab Ballads", published, 1924 by MacMillan, London, Sixth Edition, Full calf, geometric patterned boards, by Sangorski, illustrated by the author, Gilt raised bands and all page edges. Brown slipcase also with patterned designs, 7 1/4" H. x 5" W.

Condition

fading to green slipcase, Wear to finish to The Bab Ballads slipcase, minor shelf wear to ends.