Estimate: | £100 - £150 |
Hammer price: | £700 |
BEERBOHM, Max (1872-1956). The Works. London: William Heinemann, 1922-28. 10 volumes, 8vo (200 x 140mm). Half titles. Original vari-coloured cloth, spines with printed labels, uncut and unopened (spines and some sections of the boards a little faded, without the dust-jackets). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). NUMBER 700 OF 780 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE FIRST VOLUME. Riewald Max Beerbohm ... A Bibliography p.214. With the same author's Rossetti and his Circle (London, 1922, 4to, 23 mounted coloured plates by Max Beerbohm, original dark blue cloth gilt, first trade edition, with Anthony Eden's old armorial bookplate, and a slip with a printed quote from Queen Victoria loosely-inserted). (11)