Bidspirit auction | 14 Easton Press and International

14 Easton Press and International Collectors Library Faux and Genuine Leather Bound Books - A collection of 14 decorative hardcover volumes encompassing literary classics from two major fine press publishers. The group includes multiple titles from The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, including The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes, featuring an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks and illustrations by R. J. Holden, and The Essays of Francis Bacon, published as a Collector's Edition bound in genuine leather for the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series. Also present are Easton Press editions of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris. The remainder of the collection consists of volumes from the International Collectors Library, Garden City, New York, featuring titles such as Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Cervantes' Don Quixote, and Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey. The bindings are uniform in their ornate presentation, characterized by gilt-stamped decorative motifs on the front boards and spines, raised bands, and all-edges gilt. Interior pages vary by edition, with some featuring frontispiece portraits or color plates by various illustrators. Location: 15E