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The Estate of Peter H. Tillou | Day 2

Fri, Sep 30, 2022 09:00AM EDT
Lot 686

86 Leather Bound Books, English Literature

Estimate: $600 - $900

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including: [Novels and Tales by the Earl of Beaconsfield] (Benjamin Disraeli), London: Longman's, Green, and Co., 1882, the Hughenden Edition, 11 volumes (complete), bound in three quarter dark brown leather over marbled boards, gilt lettering and decoration to spines, five raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers; [Reade's Novels], London: Chatto and Windus, circa 1895, 15 volumes; [Defoe's Works], London: J. M. Dent, 1895, 16 volumes; [The Works of Samuel Richardson], London: William Miller, 1811, 16 volumes; [Waverly Novels] by Sir Walter Scott, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1871, 16 volumes; and others

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

Condition

light wear to extremities, scattered scuffs and small losses to leather, some bumped corners, scattered light staining throughout