Description
Sotheby's, London [Published date: 2013]. The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part III. Auction catalogue for sale held London, 10 December 2013 (Sale code L13411, Perly Cross). Softcover, 112 pp; illustrated throughout with color plates and reproductions; 27 cm. Includes index.
Condition & notes
In very good condition. Glossy pictorial paper covers in purple with gold lettering and cover design featuring bindings of Charles Reade novels; light edge bumping and creasing and mild overall scuffing and handling wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Catalogue of 184 lots from the celebrated English Bibliophile collection. Sections cover Politics, Economics & History (including Machiavelli's Prince), Sir Winston Churchill, and Literature, Religion & Psychology. Highlights include important first editions and association copies: Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre, Shirley, The Professor), Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility), Arthur Conan Doyle (The Hound of the Baskervilles), James Joyce (Dubliners, Ulysses), William Shakespeare (Second Folio), Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), Edmund Spenser (Faerie Queene), Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary), Sigmund Freud (Zur Auffassung der Aphasien, Die Traumdeutung), and many others.