[Rarebooks] FS: RARE Schiller's Werke [a collection-distinguishing set in original bindings and box]

[Stephen Johnson]

Greetings to All.

The below set is for sale at a substantially reduced price today (Monday)
and tomorrow (Tuesday) subject to the terms set forth below:

Schiller, Friedrich
Schiller's Werke [a collection-distinguishing set in original bindings and
box]

Stuttgart und Tübingen: Verlag der J. G. Cotta schen Buchhandlung,
 1822-1826. First Thus. Paper-covered boards and in the Original Box.
TEMPORARILY
DISCOUNTED. WAS $2,850. A Very Good set of Friedrich Schiller's Works in 18
volumes, with such volumes having differing dates ranging from 1822 through
1826 inclusive. The volumes are bound in paper cover boards, each having a
spine label with the set's name written thereon in black ink. (On a few of
the volumes, the spine writing has been obliterated.) The set is housed in
the RARE ORIGINAL BOX which measures approximately 15 inches across X
approximately 5 1/2 inches high X approximately 3 3/4 inches deep. Each
Volume wears its original paper-covered boards and, as expected, each shows
general wear -- including some rubbing through. The open-faced cardboard
case is in good condition with general wear (particularly to the bottom
edge) and shows some splitting to the seams. Nevertheless, the box is still
holding itself together. The book bindings are provisional and buyers would
most likely have had the volumes rebound and would have discarded the box
as being of no further use. A RARE SET IN THE ORIGINAL BINDINGS AND BOX,
the set is MENTIONED ON PAGE 64, on which page an image of this set also is
provided, of Mark Godburn's excellent work titled "Nineteenth-Century
Dust-Jackets" published by Oak Knoll Press in the US and by Private
Libraries Association in the UK. As to this set, Godburn there states:
"Another German box, one of the largest recorded from this period, held an
eighteen-volume set of Schiller's Werke (1823-26). This box had marbled
paper on the outside and the same green paper on the inside that covered
the bindings. The books fit snugly in the box and probably were not issued
with dust-jackets. The plain board bindings had handwritten spine labels
and would not have warranted jacket protection for one thing. For another,
the cumulative thickness of the thirty-six panels of eighteen dust jackets
would have strained the box, possibly preventing all the volumes from
fitting into it. The box served to keep the volumes together until sale,
but...probably had no more intended permanence than the bindings." Complete
sets such as this one with the volumes in their original provisional
bindings and still residing in their large original box, one of the
earliest -- and possibly the earliest -- such box still surviving,
are* EXCEEDINGLY
RARE TO THE MARKET AND A PART OF BOOK PUBLISHING HISTORY WHICH WOULD ADD
DISTINCTION TO ANY COLLECTION*. Very good. Item #2824

*WAS $2,850.  TEMPORARILY AVAILABLE AT $925.*


Multiple images can be found at www.allingtonbooks.com


*Immediate payment is required*.  *To purchase at the above discounted
prices, please email us and we will send the Buyer a PayPal invoice. *
The set is returnable (in the same condition as delivered to Buyer) within
15 days of delivery (or attempted delivery, if earlier) of the item to
Buyer's mailing address.
Media Mail shipping to destinations in the continental USA is $15.00.
The set is subject to prior sale.
With Thanks for your consideration of the above and
Best Wishes,
Stephen
Allington Antiquarian Books


Stephen Johnson
Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
Rare and Collectible Books, both Antiquarian and Modern
www.allingtonbooks.com
336-414-0435