Fine Books and Manuscripts

Lot #417:

Shelf of Nine Finely Bound Works.

[Fine Bindings] Shelf of Nine Finely Bound Works. Including The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Walter J. Black, 1932; full tree calf, gilt tulip centerpieces in compartments); Thoughts from Maeterlinck (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1908; half blue morocco, compartments ruled in gilt with scrollwork cornerpieces); The Letters of John Keats (Reeves & Turner, 1895; half red morocco bound by Rivière, compartments in gilt); Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle (George Harrap, ca. 1920s; full red calf; front cover detached, gilt scrollwork in compartments dentelle turn-ins); The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi (Burns Oates & Washbourne, n.d.; full red calf bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt tulip corners framed in gilt, alternating centerpieces in compartments, chain link dentelle turn-ins); The Ballad of the White Horse by Gilbert K. Chesterton (John Lane Company, 1916; half blue levant; gilt centerpieces in compartments); The English Reader (Benziger Brothers, 1887; half brown levant, compartments triple framed in gilt fillet); The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (Macmillan, 1915; half green morocco, compartments double framed in gilt fillet); and The Fables of Aesop by Joseph Jacobs (Macmillan, 1919; half green morocco, compartments double framed in gilt fillet). T.e.g. 8vos. Tight copies.