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The Estate of Peter H. Tillou | Day 2

Fri, Sep 30, 2022 09:00AM EDT
Lot 687

17 Leatherbound Books, Poetry and Literature

Estimate: $400 - $600

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including: [Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border] by Walter Scott, Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co., 1810, three volumes (complete), bound in full leather, covers with blindstamped and gilt ruling and decorative borders, gilt lettering and decoration to spines, aeg; [Lay of the Last Minstrel] by Walter Scott, London: Longman, Hurst, et. al., 1805; [Reliques of Ancient English Poetry] by Thomas Percy, Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1864, three volumes (complete); [Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems] by William Edmonstoune Aytoun, Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863; [The Works of Leo Tolstoy], Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1904, nine volumes

Provenance: The Estate of Peter H. Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut

Condition

light wear to extremities, scattered scuffs and scratches to leather, some bumped corners, scattered areas of light staining throughout

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