Chapbooks, early 19th century, popular tales, most with frontispieces, in later bindings: The Death-Bed Confessions of the late Countess of Guernsey, frontispiece portrait dated 1826; The Shipwreck of ... Paul and Virginia, London: S. Fisher 1800, engraved frontispiece; another edition publ. W. Mason; The Life of Jack Sheppard, Bysh's edition, coloured folding frontispiece (reinforced); The Wonderful Life of Wolfe, a notorious Robber and Murderer, Fairburn's Edition, folding frontispiece laid down, bound with The Adventures of Philip Quarll, rather soiled; The Eventful History of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, by S. Wilkinson, bound with The Welch Heiress, folding frontispiece laid down, some soiling; Oakcliffe Hall bound with Edward's Cross, frontispieces laid down, soiling, worn straight grain morocco; The Fatal Scarf, by Madame Leinstein, browned and stained; The Curfew, 1807, contents with lower corners use-damaged with slight loss; Mary Macgregor, by Mary Cameron, 16mo, advert leaf at end (10)
Sold for £850
Auction: The Library Sale, 13th Oct, 2022