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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[ERAGNY PRESS]. ROSSETTI, Christina Georgina (1830?1894). Verses. Edited by J.D. Symon. London: Eragny Press, [1906]. 8vo. Printed in red and black, 2 wood?engraved vignettes, 3?line capital initial woodcuts and decorations by Esther and Lucien Pissarro, errata slip at rear. Original publisher?s quarter drab paper over boards lettered in silver, floral patterned?paper sides, several quires unopened, uncut (spine a bit sunned, small chip to head); folding box. LIMITED EDITION, one of 175 copies on paper reprinted from G. Polidori?s edition of 1847. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY ESTHER AND LUCIEN PISSARRO on front free endpaper to Alfred and Juliette Isaacson. Franklin, p. 207; Ransom 26, p. 263; Tomkinson, p. 65.