Auction: January 24, 2021
Lot #190: London and Paris Book Assortment
(28) volumes including "Paris Known and Unknown" by William Walton, George Barrie and Son, Philadelphia, 1901, (3) volumes, folio, full leather, brocade silk end papers, all edges gilt #65/500; "Paris and its Environs, Displayed in a Series of Picturesque Views" by A. Pugin and C. Heath, London 1829, (2) volumes half-leather over marbled boards, all edges gilt, engraved frontispieces and plates; "Vanished Halls and Cathedrals of France" by George Wharton Edwards, Philadelphia, 1917, decorative cloth, color plates; "London" by Charles Knight, London 1842, (6) volumes bound in (3) books, cloth having paper spine labels, frontispiece and text cuts; "The History and Antiquities of the Tower of London" by John Bayley, T. Cadell, London, 1821, (2) volumes full leather, engraved plates; "Tower of London" by Arthur Poyser, A & C Black, London, 1908, half-leather, color plates; "London in the Eighteenth Century" by Walter Besant, A & C Black, 1903, (2) volumes, illustrated, decorative cloth; "Tallis's Illustrated London in Commemoration of the Great Exposition" by William Gaspey, London, 1851, (2) volumes, full leather; other books on France and London; together with a disbound copy of "Grammaire de L'Ornement" by Owen Jones, Bernard Quaritsch, London, 1865, (1868 on spine) gold decorated cloth, (100) color plates and many text illustrations