The Historic 1840 Tucker House Bed and Breakfast Auction: A Distinguished Offering of Primitives & Antiques
Lot 476:
Description
This collection contains several antique and vintage hardcover volumes encompassing regional history, literature, and juvenile fiction. The group includes a quarto-sized volume titled History of Madison County Ohio, dated 1915 on the spine and bound in brown textured cloth with gilt-stamped lettering. Also present is a volume titled Woman and Puppet by Pierre Lou?s, bearing the statement Privately Printed on the spine; this book is bound in cream cloth with an ornate gold-gilt floral design. The set contains two non-consecutive volumes (III and IV) of Macaulay’s History of England, bound in dark brown textured cloth with gilt-stamped titles and blind-stamped borders. Completing the assortment are two pictorial cloth volumes by Horatio Alger, Jr., titled Andy Grant’s Pluck and Only an Irish Boy, published by Hurst & Co. Both Alger volumes feature matching color cover illustrations depicting a boy in a blue uniform running in front of a steam locomotive. Transcribed spine text includes: HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY OHIO 1915, Woman and PUPPET By PIERRE LOUYS Privately Printed, MACAULAY’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. VOL. IV., MACAULAY’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. VOL. III., and ONLY AN IRISH BOY ALGER HURST & CO. Sizes range from approximately octavo to quarto.
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