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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CRANE, Walter (1845?1915). Shakespeare?s Comedy of the Merry Wives of Windsor. London: [Dallastype Press for] George Allen, 1894. Folio. 8 engraved plates on rice paper by Duncan C. Dallas after original pen drawings by Crane, mounted on heavy card; blank interleaves. Original publisher?s gilt?decorated green cloth, top edge gilt (extremes gently darkened, some tiny spots of fraying at ends and corners, inner joints cracked). LIMITED EDITION, number 119 of 650 copies, of which only 600 are for sale. SIGNED BY CRANE AND DALLAS, on limitation. From the private library of a distinguished Chicago book collector.