Lot #114: Antique Hardcover Books: Turn-of-the-Century Decorative Cloth

- A showcase of late-19th/early-20th-century bookmaking art, featuring Art Nouveau foil-stamped covers, split-cloth bindings, and chromolithographed paste-down panels (Altemus, Hurst, Ward Lock). 9 volumes: - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Library of Classics, Collins Leather Issue, c. 1910s) - Top edge gilt - Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures by John Ruskin (Hurst & Company, c. 1895) - All edges gilt - A Minister of the World by Caroline Atwater Mason (Henry Altemus Company, 1899) - Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle (The Mershon Company, c. 1890s) - Top edge gilt - Birds and Poets: With Other Papers by John Burroughs (David Douglas, 1901) - Top edge gilt - Crucifixion of Philip Strong by Charles M. Sheldon (Hurst & Co., c. 1898) - The Crown of Wild Olive by John Ruskin (Hurst and Company, c. 1895) - Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim (M. A. Donohue, c. 1901) - Top edge gilt - Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley (Ward, Lock & Co., c. 1898) Pickup category timeslot {D}