Catalogue of the Valuable Private Library of the Late Frederick W. French of Boston

French, Frederick W.

Published by C. F. Libbie & Co., Boston, Mass., 1901

About this Item

No dust jacket; Brown cloth/half leather with spine gilt. Shallow losses of leather to spine ends. Leather rubbed. Marbled endpages with mesh showing/hinge cracked. Rear endpages have some tears that do not obscure text. Contents unmarked. Plate at page 186 is loose. No price list laid in. ; Marbled endpapers. This catalogue of the late Mr. Frederick W. French contains listing of many rare and valuable books . There are illustrations of magnificent bindings. For example: Inlaid binding by Samblanck-Weckesser, Beraldi. Paris qui Crie, 1890, Fitzgerald. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1859 inlaid binding by Riviere, Fitzgerald. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1872, inlaid binding by Zaehnsdorf. Pullout with Shelley, Helias, 1822, Binding by Zaehnsdorf and Rossetti, The Germ, 1850, bound by Cobden-Sanderson, etc. Many rare books by Edgar Allan Poe, George and Robert Cruikshank, Shelley, Shakespeare, etc. Etc. Of note: Frederick W. French, purchased from Scribner's for $120. The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe and J. P. Morgan purchased it in a sale of the French collection in April of 1900 for $1,000. The books in this catalog were sold April, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 1901. Terms were cash. ; Frontispiece & Illustrations of Bookbinding; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 237pp pages. Seller Inventory # 10049

Bibliographic Details

Title: Catalogue of the Valuable Private Library of...

Publisher: C. F. Libbie & Co., Boston, Mass.

Publication Date: 1901

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

Edition: First Edition.