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Lot 1081
(ALKEN, HENRY--IN THE MANNER OF) O'BRADLEY, ARTHUR. The Gretna-Green Bolt-A, Or, Young Ladies' Man-Ual.
London: Rudolph Ackermann & Paris: Galignani & Co., (1853). First edition. Handsome crimson crushed levant morocco by Morrell, gilt-tooled spine; both covers with a gilt double fillet border and comer ornaments of hearts, cupid's bows and arrows and leafy sprays; front cover gilt-lettered; marbled paste-downs and endpapers, inner dentelles gilt, housed in a custom red cloth clamshell box. 5 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches (13.5 x 27.5 cm); 70 pp. printed on pink paper; color lithograph from original front wrapper laid down and mounted on front blank, repeating the color lithograph frontispiece. The binding in fine condition, foxing to frontispiece depicting pursuit of eloping couple. Armorial bookplate of Sir William A.H. Bass, a noted racehorse owner) and leather bookplate of Cortland Bishop. Copy of catalogue entry from the latter's April 27,1938 sale laid in.
Gretna-Green is a village in Scotland famous for elopements, the first village in southern Scotland following the old coaching route from London to Edinburgh.
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