Fine Bindings and Sets Lots 469-570
469 AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817). Works. Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, editor. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892-1894. 8 works in 12 volumes, 8vo (172 x 113 mm). Illustrated frontispieces. (Several leaves uncut and unopened.) 19th-century half blue morocco gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2 compartments, gilt-decoration in the rest, top edge gilt, marbled endsheets (some very minor wear). LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 sets of the uniformly bound complete set of Austen’s novels with one volume of letters by Austen. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $500 - 700
470 [FINE BINDINGS] – [BONAPARTE, Napoleon (1769-1821)]. The Life of Napoleon. [With:] Memoirs of Napoleon. [With:] Memoirs of Madame Junot. New York: The Grolier Society, ca 1900. Together 16 volumes, 8vos (221 x 142 mm). Original half marron morocco gilt over silk boards, 4 raised bands gilt, gilt lettered in 3 compartments, top edges gilt, all others uncut (occasional minor scuffing, uncut edges toned, a few sides faded). All LIMITED EDITION, Number 1 of 425 copies of the EMPIRE EDITION. $400 - 600
471 [BINDING] -- [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, English]. The Book of Common Prayer... Oxford: T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769. 8vo (203 x 123 mm). Contemporary red panelled morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, each gilt-decorated, edges gilt (a few tiny holes at foot of spine, a touch of wear to extremities); cloth folding case. $600 - 800
156 F I N E B O O K S & M A N U S C R I P T S I N C L U D I N G A M E R I C A N A
