Beschreibung:

AMERICAN COLLECTIONS] BUTLER, Edward K. An Important Collection of notable first editions of eminent nineteenth century English authors ... collected by Mr. Edward K. Butler of Jamaica Plain, Mass., New York: American Art Galleries, 1922, 8°, some prices marked, original printed wrappers with ownership stamp of Lathrop C. Harper -- The Renowned Collection of First Editions of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray formed by George Barr McCutcheon , New York: American Art Association, 1926, 8°, illustrations, some prices marked, original printed wrappers (a little soiled and worn) -- The Splendid Library ... formed by the late Ida O. Folsom consisting of First Editions , New York: Anderson Galleries, 1932, 8°, illustrations, some prices pencilled in, original wrappers -- Rare Books from the Library of the late Willis Vickery comprising first editions by Blake, Chaucer, Keats, Lamb [etc.], Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience coloured by Blake himself, the first Chaucer 1532, the four folios of Shakespeare ..., New York: Anderson Galleries, 1935, 8°, illustrations, some prices pencilled in, original printed wrappers -- Literary and Historical Autograph Manuscripts and Letters ... including Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue, Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend ... property of the Drexel Institute of Technology , New York: Parke-Bernet, 1944, 4°, illustrations, original printed wrappers, ownership stamp of Lathrop C. Harper. With approximately 125 other American book auction catalogues issued in the first half of the century (a few lacking wrappers or endpapers and possibly end pages). (130)