LOT 3122
17th March 2021
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LOT 3122
EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. - John EVELYN. Memoirs , Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn… comprising his Diary , from the Year 1641 to 1705-06, and a Selection of His Familiar Letters. London: for Henry Colburn, 1819. 2 vols. in 5. Second edition, 4to (294 x 203mm.) 1 folding genealogy, 10 engraved plates, including 2 double-paged plans and extra-illustrated with 168 engraved plates mounted on 163 sheets, mainly portraits, including 1 folding plate. (Some marginal spotting to text leaves, browning, offsetting.) Contemporary maroon straight-grain morocco blind-tooled and with rolling gilt foliate within fillet borders, elaborate corner-pieces, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (rubbing to extremities, spine cover repair to volume 4). Note: including an engraving of Erasmus after Holbein [1682]. Provenance: 'Fauntleroy' (ink name inscribed verso the front-free endpaper of volume 1); Thomas Hodgson (ink name inscribed on the front pastedowns); Edward Salvin Bowlby (armorial bookplate to the front pastedowns).
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