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Fall Great Estates Curated Auction
Lot 105:
4 books on writing, writers and books. Thackeray by Anthony Trollope, Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle by Clement Shorter, Excursions in Victorian Bibliography by Michael Sadleir, Characters and Commentaries by Lytton Strachey.
Anthony Trollope (England, 1815-1882). Thackeray. English Men of Letters, edited by John Morley. 1879. Macmillan and Co., London; Charles Dickens and Evans, Crystal Palace Press. Wear to cover and spine, some fraying to spine, corners bumped, tears at pastedowns.
Clement Shorter (England, 1857-1926). Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle. 1896. Hodder and Stoughton, London; printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh. Corners bumped, some wear to edges and spine.
Michael Sadleir (England, 1888-1957). Excursions in Victorian Bibliography. 1922. Chaundy & Cox., London; printed by Billing and Sons, Limited. With errata slip. Adrian Homer Goldstone bookplate front pastedown. Paper dust jacket torn (some pieces present), corners bumped, some wear to edges and spine.
Lytton Strachey (England, 1880-1832). Characters and Commentaries. 1933. Chatto & Windus, London; printed at The Ballantyne Press, Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd. Some wear to covers and spine, notations in pencil on rear pastedown.
Provenance: Sadleir: Swann Galleries Inc., New York sale No. 1264, 07/15/1982; Strachey: Alan Hancox Fine Books, Cheltenham, England, 4/8/1972; all private collection, New York City; thence by descent.
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