$2,016
Estimate: $600 - $900
Auction: February 17, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
London: Jones and Co., 1833. In two volumes. 4to. Profusely illustrated with black and white engravings. Bound in full scarlet morocco, elaborately gilt; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; text likely washed; enclosed in cloth-covered slip case; by Bennett. A fine set.
A lovely example from The Bennett Book Studios, a fine book bindery in New York City established in the late 1920s by bookman and binder Whitman Bennett (1884-1968).
From the library of bibliophile and long-standing Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003).