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Sale 320: Fine Books & Manuscripts (#320) 11/03/2005 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 11/03/2005 1:00 PM PST

Lot #59 Cranford

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$1,187.50

Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800

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Description

Heading:

(Fore-Edge Painting)

Title:

Cranford

Author:

Gaskell, [Elizabeth Cleghorn]

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

Macmillan

Date Published:

1900

Description:

297 pp. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. 7x4½, full brown pictorial morocco, by Kelly & Sons for Brentano's New York; original cloth front cover and spine bound in.

Pictorial morocco gilt with multi-color morocco inlays depicting a gentleman striding down the street (front cover) and an empty sedan chair (back cover); gilt turn-ins and red silk endpapers, all edges gilt. With a fore-edge painting depicting a country house.

Condition:

Top corners slightly bumped, a little rubbing to joints and front cover just starting; else about fine.

Item#:

164659
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