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Lot Closed
July 9, 01:55 PM GMT
Estimate
1,200 - 1,600 GBP
Lot Details
Description
[BIBLE]--GRAHAM, J.--JOHNSON, S.--PEPYS, S.
Collection of 24 volumes, comprising:
[Bible]. The Holy Bible. Containing the Old and New Testaments. Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Kincaid, 1770, 12mo, 2 volumes, 'The Psalms of David in Metre' bound in at end of volume two, contemporary full black morocco elaborately gilt, spine gilt with red leather labels, floral paper doublures, all edges gilt, collector's book label in both volumes, [Darlow & Moule 1208], minor browning, bumped--Graham, James. Disputatio Juridica. Edinburgh: Thomas Ruddiman, 1741, 4to, full contemporary morocco, lavishly gilt tooling, elaborate paper doublures and endpapers, all edges gilt, minor offsetting, boards with minor abrasions, rubbed, slightly bowed--Johnson, Samuel. The Works of Samuel Johnson together with His Life and Notes on his Lives of the Poets by Sir John Hawkins. J. Buckland et al. 1787, 8vo, 11 volumes, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece, marbled calf, spine elaborately gilt with morocco labels, titled and numbered in gilt, collector's bookplates, upper board of volume 1 detached, browning, spotting (mostly confined to endpapers) boards worn, joints starting, rubbed--Pepys, Samuel. The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley. George Bell & Sons, 1893-99, 8vo, 10 volumes, portrait frontispiece, numerous plates, maps and charts (some folding), half-titles, title pages printed in red and black, top edge gilt, uniformly bound in full red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine titled in gilt, original blue cloth spines gilt persevered at end of each volume, very minor browning, scuffs to morocco, slight wear to joints, spines sunned, bumped (24)
PROVENANCE:
[Johnson:] St Andrew St John, 14th Baron St John of Bletsoe (1759-1817), his bookplate
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