Lot 297 , Shakespeare, William - The Tempest. title illus. and 20 coloured and mounted plates (by Paul Woodroffe) with captioned guards; gilt pictorial cloth and gilt top, 4to. 1908; Irving, Washington - Rip Van Winkle ... title i

° Shakespeare, William - The Tempest. title illus. and 20 coloured and mounted plates (by Paul Woodroffe) with captioned guards; gilt pictorial cloth and gilt top, 4to. 1908; Irving, Washington - Rip Van Winkle ... title illus., 50 coloured and mounted plates (by Arthur Rackham) with captioned guards, text illus. and decorations, gilt pictorial cloth, 4to. reprinted, 1908; Le Mair, H. Willebeek - Our Old Nursery Rhymes. coloured plates; gilt coloured pictorial cloth, obl. 4to. (?1911); sold with two other volumes (5)
£80-100

Condition:
Tempest - upper bd. wear, front p/down marked, lacks front blank, half title spotted and title slightly, o/w. clean (save last 2 leaves); Irving - upper board worn, plts. clean (some guards spotting), marked spotting last text leaf; lower margins of some early leaves marked, Le Mair - wear spine head, upper bd. and spine marked and faded, binding weak; words and music within oval decorated borders; Others - Dulcibella and the Fairies, col. plts. (lacks title), Rowlandson's English Dance of Death (vol. 2 only). 35 (ex.36) col. plts., num. text stains and tears, lacks pp.291-94, distressed bndg.

Sold for £85