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LOT 373

Lot 373

Eight Clothbound Volumes, early 20th century

Eight Clothbound Volumes, early 20th century
Lot 373 Details
Eight Clothbound Volumes, early 20th century

V.S. Vernon Jones
AESOP’S FABLES
8vo., 61 illustrations by Arthur Rackham, 13 in colour, Garden City Publishing, N.Y., 1939

Kenneth Grahame
THE GOLDEN AGE, octavo, illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, John Lane, 1904

Geoffrey Chaucer
THE CANTERBURY TALES, quatro, illustrated after W. Russell Flint, Jonathan Cape and the Medici Society, London, 1928

Giovanni Boccaccio
THE DECAMERON, 2 vols., 4to., illustrated by Louis Chalon, printed for the Navarre Society Limited, London, c.1929

Richard Wagner
THE RHINEGOLD & THE VALKRIE and SIEGFRIED AND THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, 2 vols., quattro, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Garden City Publishing, NY., 1939

Philp Gibbs
MEN AND WOMEN OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, quattro, illustrated, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., London, 1906

Elizabeth W. Champney
ROMANCE OF THE ROMAN VILLAS
8vo., illustrated, Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1908

Estimate $200-$300

Realised: $204
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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