LOT 3166
4th October 2016
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LOT 3166
[WESTMACOTT, Charles Molloy] 'Bernard BLACKMANTLE'. The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous… Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious. London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826. First edition in book form, 2 vols., 8vo (232 x 138mm.) 71 hand-coloured aquatint plates including frontispieces, 1 wood-engraved plate of the 'Five Orders', numerous wood engraved illustrations. (Light browning, some offsetting, spotting and occasional minor soiling, neat repairs to p.iii and p.107 in vol. I also title and p.213 in vol. II.) Later full crushed morocco, by Riviere & Son, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with repeat foliate decoration in gilt, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (extremities lightly bumped). Provenance: Hugh Sartorius Whitaker (armorial bookplate to front pastedowns); Peter & Margery Morris (bookplate to front-free endpapers); S. Davies (inscriptions to front pastedowns).
Hammer price: £360
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