16 Apr 2012
10:00 EDT
New York
Fine Books and Manuscripts featuring the Michael Lerner Collection
Back to auction 19972
Fine Books and Manuscripts featuring the Michael Lerner Collection
Back to auction 19972
CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE, illustrator.
[COMBE, WILLIAM.] The Life of Napoleon, A Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos by Doctor Syntax. London: T. Tegg, 1815.
8vo (228 x 140 mm). 260 pp. 30 hand-colored aquatint plates (including title). Full crimson morocco, raised bands, gilt spine, gilt borders and dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Neat repair to p 63, faint offsetting from plates, extremities slightly rubbed.
Provenance: W.A. Foyle (morocco bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. Cohn 153; Tooley 151.
8vo (228 x 140 mm). 260 pp. 30 hand-colored aquatint plates (including title). Full crimson morocco, raised bands, gilt spine, gilt borders and dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Neat repair to p 63, faint offsetting from plates, extremities slightly rubbed.
Provenance: W.A. Foyle (morocco bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. Cohn 153; Tooley 151.
Sold for
US$ 562
inc. premium
Category: Books / Books, Maps and Manuscripts
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