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Thu, Jul 16, 2015 05:00PM EDT - Fri, Jul 17, 2015 05:00PM EDT
Lot 243

Two English Poetry Books, 1854 and

Estimate: $400 - $800

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1893 Humorous Poems by Thomas Hood, London: Macmillan and Co., 1893, with 130 black and white illustrations, bound in a fine signed Sangorski and Sutcliffe binding, gilt-decorated and lettered full brown leather with five raised bands, with correlating blind-stamped devices, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, 7-1/4 x 5 in., near fine; Two Poems by Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, London: Chapman and Hall, 1854, three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, five raised bands, original wrappers bound in, the front wrapper acting as the title-page, top edge gilt, 8 x 5-1/2 in., bookplate on the front pastedown, otherwise near fine with a very slightly faded spine . Provenance: North Carolina Private Collection

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