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]. ROBINSON, William Heath (1872?1944), illustrator. ?? SHAKESPEARE, William. Shakespeare?s Comedy a Midsummer?Night?s Dream. London: Constable & Co., 1914. 4to. 12 tipped?in color plates and numerous illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. Full crushed red modern niger ruled in gilt, raised bands, gilt fillets and titling in compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. FIRST ENGLISH TRADE EDITION of what the artist considered his greatest achievement and what the Times Literary Supplement described in December of 1914 as ?The most complete and beautiful specimen before us of an illustrated book as a single work of art.? A FINE COPY.