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LOT #290
James Gillray (English, 1756-1815) "Works of James Gillray" Atlas Folio
c.1847, printed by Henry G. Bohn, London, complete with 582 engraved plates depicting humorous caricatures on 152 sheets, together with portrait frontispiece and title page, gilt-edged pages, half-leather binding with gilt spine, marbled endpapers; University College Nottingham labels to cover and inside cover; property from a Highland Park, Illinois collector
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Hammer Price: $425
Dimensions: Height: 25 3/4 inches, Width: 20 inches, Depth: 2 1/2 inches (folio overall)
Condition: Good, folio having received conservation, including replacement of spine, lining and reattaching of portrait frontispiece, repairs to tears at right edge and chip at lower left edge of title page and tears to lower left edges of first 6 sheets (margins only affected); stains to lower corners of first few sheets; foxing to margins of title page; some other repaired tears to margins; some foxing and minor staining throughout; wear to binding with chipped edges; rubbing to covers; sticker to front cover near spine; bumped corners
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