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Premier Auction - Session I | November 11, 2022

Fri, Nov 11, 2022 09:00AM EST
Lot 368

Large Group Leatherbound British Poetry Books

Estimate: $500 - $800

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117 volumes total, including: The Poets of Great Britain, Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, London: Printed for John Bell, 1778, 53 volumes, bound in full tree calf leather, covers with blindstamped and gilt borders, gilt lettering and decoration to spines, marbled endpapers; 35 volumes assorted poet's works, Little Leather Library Corporation, New York; 29 volumes, assorted works by Milton, Chaucer, and others

Provenance: Collection of a Southern Gentlemen

Condition

all with light wear to extremities, scattered scuffs and small losses to leather, scattered light staining throughout, some boards starting

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