£130
Anon, The Cabinet-Maker's Assistant: A Series of Original Designs for Modern Furniture, Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1853, half-title, engraved emblematic and letterpress title leaves, double-column with in-text illustrations and diagrams, engraved plates, 20th c red quarter-morocco over marbled boards, folio (36.8 x 28cm); Ruskin (John), The Poetry of Architecture, with Illustrations by the Author, one of 300 large paper copies, London: George Allen, 1893, half-title, frontispiece and mixed process plates, original publisher's half-vellum over green cloth gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 4to; Roscoe (Thomas, translator), Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini, two volume set, first English edition, London: Henry Colburn and Co., 1822, portrait frontispiece, contemporary Regency brown calf gilt, in imitation of straight-grained morocco, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, (4)
Provenance: 3rd: 1) George Steinman Smith; 2) Marcus Steinman Kemmis; armorial bookplates to pastedown and endpapers.
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