Fine Books and Manuscripts
Sat, Apr 18, 2020 12:00PM EDT
Lot 391
Memoirs of the Court of England, Artistique Edition.
Estimate: $600 - $800
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[Fine Binding] Jesse, John Heneage. Memoirs of the Court of England, Artistique Edition. Boston: Chester F. Rice Company, [ca. 1900]. Complete 30 volume set. Limited to 50 copies for England and America, this being No. 30. Period blue-green crushed Levant ruled in gilt over marbled boards, covers tooled with a gilt monogram of Effingham Buckley Morris (the ?Great President? of Philadelphia?s Girard Trust), raised bands, compartments tooled with gilt twining roses and red morocco inlay petals, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Hand-colored frontispieces, illustrated with several plates throughout. 8vos. Spines sunned; else a handsome set.
