Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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[BINDING]. DULAC, Edmund (1882?1953), illustrator. ???HOUSMAN, Laurence (1865?1959). Princess Badoura. [Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable for] Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1913]. Small 4to. 10 color?printed tipped in plates by Dulac. Full crushed carrot levant with a border of tulips tooled in gilt and framed within numerous gilt fillets, several large tulips inlaid with black morocco, 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, 4 compartments with large fleuron gilt devices inlaid with black morocco, gilt?lettering in remainder, all edges gilt, large morocco turn?ins with numerous gilt filets and large fleuron devices inlaid with blue morocco, silk moir? free endpapers, green levant doublures gilt, gilt stamp?signed by Stikeman; original pictorial cloth bound in; morocco?edged slipcase. FIRST DULAC TRADE EDITION, in a very attractive binding.