RASPE, Rudolph Erich (1737-94). Aventures du Baron Munchhausen , translated by Théophile Gautier Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, [1862], 4° (295 x 205mm), wood-engraved illustrations by Gustave Doré some full-page (some spotting). Contemporary blue morocco-backed marbled boards by Lemardeley, original front wrapper bound in. With various other works of English literature in 55 volumes including Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son (London, 1810, 3 vols., contemporary armorial calf), Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur (London, 1812, 2 vols., contemporary calf), Charles Dickens's The Cricket on the Hearth (London, 1846, original cloth, FIRST EDITION), The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti translated by John Addington Symonds (Portland, 1897, ONE OF 925 COPIES, from the Library of C. H. St.J. Hornby), Andrew Lang's Ballades in Blue China and Other Poems (Portland, 1907, NO. 22 OF 50 COPIES ON JAPAN VELLUM), Lord Byron's Poetry ... chosen and arranged by Matthew Arnold (London, 1922, finely-bound in red morocco) and William Shakespeare's Sonnets (London, 1928, blue half morocco). (56)
RASPE, Rudolph Erich (1737-94). Aventures du Baron Munchhausen , translated by Théophile Gautier Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, [1862], 4° (295 x 205mm), wood-engraved illustrations by Gustave Doré some full-page (some spotting). Contemporary blue morocco-backed marbled boards by Lemardeley, original front wrapper bound in. With various other works of English literature in 55 volumes including Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son (London, 1810, 3 vols., contemporary armorial calf), Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur (London, 1812, 2 vols., contemporary calf), Charles Dickens's The Cricket on the Hearth (London, 1846, original cloth, FIRST EDITION), The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti translated by John Addington Symonds (Portland, 1897, ONE OF 925 COPIES, from the Library of C. H. St.J. Hornby), Andrew Lang's Ballades in Blue China and Other Poems (Portland, 1907, NO. 22 OF 50 COPIES ON JAPAN VELLUM), Lord Byron's Poetry ... chosen and arranged by Matthew Arnold (London, 1922, finely-bound in red morocco) and William Shakespeare's Sonnets (London, 1928, blue half morocco). (56)
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