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Sale 412: Fine Books & Manuscripts (#412) 09/17/2009 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 09/17/2009 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #67 The Flowers of Shakespeare

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$875

Estimate: $300 - $500

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Title:

The Flowers of Shakespeare

Author:

[Giraud, Jane Elizabeth]

Place Published:

[London]

Publisher:

Day & Haghe

Date Published:

[1845]

Description:

30 leaves printed on recto only. Title page + each leave with a verse from a Shakespeare play containing flowers, and a chromolithographed illustration of that flower above. 12x9, later leather-backed marbled boards, original cloth wrappers bound in, all edges gilt.

Neat inscription from the author to her brother, dated 1845, on preliminary blank leaf.

Condition:

Original cloth with some light soiling; signed leaf repaired with thin strip of tape along edges; just a touch of offsetting on a few versos of leaves; very good.

Item#:

208243

Headline:

Flowers Shakespeare chromolithos signed by Giraud
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