Bidspirit auction | Black, Draper, and Guizot. Three

Black, Draper, and Guizot. Three Antique Volumes. Frank F. Lovell and Company and Others, c. 1880-1900. - Three antique volumes featuring decorative cloth and leather bindings. The first volume is William Black's Strange Adventures of a Phaeton, issued as an Aldine Edition by publisher Frank F. Lovell and Company. It is bound in cream-colored decorative cloth with elaborate dark ink patterning and gilt-faded lettering on the spine. The second volume is The Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume 1, by John William Draper, bound in dark brown leather with five raised bands and gilt-tooled lettering in the spine compartments. The third volume is François Guizot's Origines du Gouvernement Representatif, Tome 1, bound in dark leather with four raised bands, gilt-tooled floral motifs, and gilt-lettered spine compartments. All three volumes feature period typographic treatments and darkened page edges.