The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part IV

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Lot 20
  • 20

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
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Description

  • Little Lord Fauntleroy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886
  • Paper
large 8vo (210 x 169mm.), FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with the DeVinne imprint on the verso of p.209 of the text, followed by 14pp. adverts), illustrations by Reginald B. Birch, original pictorial grey cloth lettered with design in red, black and gilt, collector's red morocco-backed velvet lined box, foot of spine bumped, with small crease at the top of upper cover, some splitting at gutter

Provenance

Richard Manney, book label; his sale, Sotheby's New York, 11 October 1991, lot 31

Catalogue Note

FIRST PRINTING OF BURNETT'S FIRST CHILDREN'S NOVEL IN BOOK FORM. Prior to this edition, the text had appeared serially in St. Nicholas Magazine between November 1885 and October 1886.