Brown Button Estate Sales
Timed Auction

Large Multi-Estate Antique and Collectibles Online Estate Sale

Mon, Feb 10, 2025 05:15PM EST - Thu, Feb 13, 2025 08:00PM EST
Lot 19

Group of Antique & Vintage Leather Bound Classics: 1860 Shakespeare's The Tempest, Longfellow, Fitzgerald

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Group of four vintage and antique leather bound books.

The highlight of the group is a Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST (New York: D. Appleton & Company, n.d. ); Does not have a publication date, but we think was published in 1860 - 90 page specially illustrated printing of Shakespeare's play "The Tempest". Includes 18 wood engravings from original drawings by Birket Foster, Gustave Dore, Frederick Skill, Alfred Slader, and Gustave Janet. In original gilt and embossed green leather boards. - Loose binding and in fair condition. 

Condition

Fair with visible signs of wear, typical of age. See pictures.

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