[BINDINGS]. BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim's Progress. L, 1861. [With:] GOLDSMITH. The Vicar of Wakefield. L, 1886. [Also with:] FIELD. Love Songs of Childhood. Chicago, 1905. LIMITED EDITION. Inscribed by Field's wife and signed by 5 others.
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[BINDINGS]. BUNYAN, John (1628-1688). The Pilgrim's Progress. London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1861.
8vo (215 x 162 mm). Illustrated. 20th-century crushed teal levant gilt, upper cover with central onlays depicting a pilgrim, edges gilt, wide turn-ins gilt, STAMP SIGNED BY BAYNTUN (slight wear to joints and extremities, spine sunned).
[With:] GOLDSMITH, Oliver (1728-1774). The Vicar of Wakefield. London: John C. Nimmo, 1886. 8vo (245 x 160 mm). Illustrated. 20th-Century green crushed levant gilt, upper cover with central onlays depicting the vicar, edges gilt, wide turn-ins gilt, STAMP-SIGNED BY BAYNTUN (slight wear to joints and extremities, spine sunned). Provenance: Eugene Field (1850-1895), American author (bookplate). -- FIELD, Eugene (1850-1895). Love Songs of Childhood. Chicago: [Lakeside Press], 1905. 4to. Facsimile text printed recto only. 20th-century tan crushed levant gilt. LIMITED EDITION, an unnumbered copy of 500 printed in Japan vellum. Inscribed by Eugene Field's wife, Julia, and additionally signed by 5 of their children.
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