Estimate: | £400 - £600 |
Hammer price: | £1,300 |
BINDING - John Heneage JESSE (1809-74). London: Its Celebrated Characters and Remarkable Places ... with Extra Illustrations. London: Richard Bentley, 1871. 6 volumes, 8vo (194 x 128mm). Titles printed in red and black, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with c.480 engraved plates, portraits, etc., some hand-coloured. VERY FINELY BOUND by Bayntun (Rivière) in contemporary full armorial blue crushed morocco gilt, the covers with geometric fillet borders with the coat-of-arms of the City of London at the centre of each, spines gilt in six compartments, gilt edges, dentelles, marbled and later endpapers endpapers. Provenance: W. A. FOYLE, BEELEIGH ABBEY (red morocco armorial bookplate). (6)