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

[Stephen Johnson]

The Schiller set has sold.
Best Wishes,
Stephen

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


On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 3:13 PM Stephen Johnson <allingtonbooks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>