[ART AND ILLUSTRATION -- BIBLIOGRAPHIES]. A group of 7 works in 9 volumes, various folio and 4to sizes, all in original bindings with dust jackets where applicable, many FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine.
Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-410
Nov 8, 2022
9:00AM CT
Lots 411-717
Nov 9, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$300 -
$400
Sold for $188
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[ART AND ILLUSTRATION -- BIBLIOGRAPHIES]. A group of 7 works, comprising:
ABBEY, John Roland. Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860. Kent, UK: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972. -- ABBEY, John Roland. Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860. London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1957. 2 volumes. -- ABBEY, John Roland. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland 1770-1860. Kent, UK: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972. -- FOWBLE, E. McSherry. Two Centuries of Prints in America 1680-1880. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987. -- GARVEY, Eleanor M. (ed.) The Artist and the Book 1860-1960. New York: Hacker Art Books, Inc., 1982. -- RAY, Gordon N. The Art of the French Illustrated Book. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982. 2 volumes. -- RAY, Gordon N. The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. -- Together, 7 works in 9 volumes, various folio and 4to sizes, all in original publisher’s bindings with dust jackets where applicable, many FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine.
Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Richard Fitch
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