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The Estate of Peter H. Tillou | Day 2

Fri, Sep 30, 2022 09:00AM EDT
Lot 662

37 Leatherbound Books on English History

Estimate: $400 - $800

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including: [The Greville Memoirs] by Charles C. F. Greville, London: Longman's, Green, and Co., 1885, extra illustrated, five volumes on Queen Victoria (complete), two volumes on George IV and William IV, in signed Zaehnsdorf binding, bound in three quarter dark blue leather over marbled boards, spines with gilt lettering and decoration, five raised bands, marbled endpapers, teg; [Historical Memoirs of the House of Russell] by J. H. Wiffen, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, et. al., 1833, two volumes (complete), signed Riviere binding, bound in full green to brown leather, covers with gilt ruling, spines with gilt lettering and decoration to spines, five raised bands, aeg; [George Selwyn and his Contemporaries] by John Heneage Jesse, London: Richard Bentley, 1843, four volumes (complete), signed Root and Son binding, bound in full leather, gilt lettering to spines, five raised bands, marbled endpapers, teg; and others

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

Condition

light wear to extremities, scattered scuffs and scratches to leather, scattered toning, foxing, and staining throughout, some boards starting, some with scattered areas of dampstaining