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Richard Savage. With the illustrations by John Leech. Bentley's Miscellany.
DELUXE BINDING OF WHITEHEAD'S RICHARD SAVAGE
London: Richard Bentley, 1841-42.
8vo (9½" tall). Superb full red crushed morocco, by TOUT. Gilt raised bands and pallets, fine gilt tooling to panels. Boards framed with gilt floral corner tool. Gilt doublures with floral patterned endpapers. Top edge gilt. Slightly foxed. Armorial bookplate. Original issues of Bentley's Magazine, bound with special title page, contents and a preface dated 1889 by the collector John Waugh.
A magnificent deluxe binding by TOUT, with fine engraved plates by Leech. "Whitehead's masterpiece, 'Richard Savage' (1842), illustrated by Leech, a romance, partly founded on Dr. Johnson's life of Savage, was much admired by Dickens. It was dramatised, and the play ran for nearly thirty nights at the Surrey Theatre." (DNB) Uniformly bound with our other selections from Bentley's Miscellany.
£450.00
(equal to approx. US$693.42* or €547.38* for 10 September 2010)
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