Lot 135
  • 135

Cooper, James Fenimore

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • James Fenimore Cooper [The Novels]. [N.P.: N.D.]
  • paper, ink, leather
32 volumes, 8vo. Hand-colored frontispieces in two states with additional engravings and illustrations by F.O.C. Darley, red-lettered tissue guards. Full brown calf, single rule and floral sprays in gilt, spines with raised bands, titles and elaborately gilt floral patterns in compartments, turn-ins with acorn and leaf motif in gilt, green calf doublures ruled with repeated floral motif in corners in gilt, top edges gilt, many uncut; neat repairs to joints (Monikins). 

Literature

Spiller & Blackburn 170:5

Catalogue Note

NUMBER TWO IN A SET OF THREE, bound by the Adams Bindery, New York.