Sunday, October 20, 2019
October Auction | LOT #432 - Smollet’s History of England, Thackeray’s Works, Fine Binding Assortment
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LOT #432
Smollet's History of England, Thackeray's Works, Fine Binding Assortment
Thirty-one volumes, half-bound gilt tooled leather over marbled boards, all edges and end papers marbled, including “The History of England” in four volumes, complete, by T. Smollett, London, 1848, having engraved frontispiece; “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray” in twenty-four volumes, complete, London, 1879, illustrated; six additional volumes from a set of the American edition of “Thackeray’s Works”; together with “Rand McNally’s Standard Atlas of the World” 1948 edition, full leather having a slipcase
Estimate: $150 - $200
Hammer Price: $250
Dimensions: Height: 10 3/4 inches, Width: 1 3/4 inches, Length: 7 3/4 inches (atlas in slipcase)
Condition: Very Good to Fair, overall light to heavy wear consistent with age and normal use; bindings rubbed, scuffed and bumped to extremities; titles legible; most exterior hinges holding, many being tender, some beginning to split; the full set of Thackeray having bookplates and detached boards to first three volumes, volume three missing its front board
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