DUST-JACKETS - NINETEENTH CENTURY -FALKENER (EDWARD) The Museum of Classical Antiquities, 1860; ...

DUST-JACKETS - NINETEENTH-CENTURY FALKENER (EDWARD) The Museum of Classical Antiquities... New Edition, illustrations (some folding), jacket split with minor loss at upper joint, some fraying and loss to turn-ins, one small hole to blank lower cover, 1860; Daedalus, or, the Causes and Principles of the Excellence of Greek Sculpture, 8 mounted albumen print plates, loss of lower turn-in flap, a few other repairs but spine and upper cover good [Gernsheim 132], 1860, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., with 'Hanbury & Co.' binder's ticket inside lower covers, large 8vo, Longman, Green--JOHNSON (SAMUEL) Rasselas; Prince of Abyssinia, publisher's limp blind- and gilt-tooled cloth, g.e., dust-jacket (spine soiled with small losses at extremities and corners), 8vo, Longmans, 1863 (3) Footnotes: RARE 1860 AND EARLIER DUST-JACKETS. 'Because of their obviously ephemeral nature very few have survived and those that have are frequently underrated... Any dustwrapper before about 1885 ought to be recorded, perhaps in some central register' (Robin de Beaumont, 'Nineteenth Century Publisher's Bindings 1820-1900', The Private Library. Quarterly Journal, Fourth series, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1996). This copy of Daedalus is 'one of a clutch of about seven which turned up in a country auction a couple of years ago having been kept in a drawer by the author's family for over a century. By the end of the view only about three survived. This was one of the best' (idem). This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing