Collins, Wilkie

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Description

Collins, Wilkie
The Black Robe. London: Chatto & Windus, 1881
ink on paper

8vo (186 x 120mm.), 3 volumes, FIRST EDITION, 6 pages of advertisements and 32-page publisher’s catalogue at end of volume 3, volume 3 largely unopened, publisher’s pictorial black cloth, covers lettered and decorated in white, spines lettered in gilt, floral endpapers, Burn & Co. binder’s ticket on rear pastedown of volume 1, modern morocco-backed folding box, volume 1 with circulating library plate to front pastedown, occasional slight spotting, joints very slightly worn, covers slightly scuffed, volume 2 in a different shade of cloth, spine of volume 2 neatly repaired at head of spine and lower joint

Provenance

[I].V. Collins, signature on first page of text, volumes 2 and 3; J. Bradford, signature on verso of front free endpaper, volume 1; Florence & Edward Kaye, red morocco bookplate.

Literature

Parrish, pp.114ff; Wolff, 1347

Catalogue Note

RARE FIRST EDITION; FROM THE COLLECTION OF FLORENCE AND EDWARD KAYE.