(Barnett Freedman), Leo Tolstoy: 'Anna Karenina', Printed at...

Hammer

£260

(Barnett Freedman), Leo Tolstoy: 'Anna Karenina', Printed at Cambridge University Press for The Limited Editions Club, 1951, limited edition (469/1500), numbered & signed by the illustrator Barnett Freedman, 2 volumes, decorated title pages, ornamental tailpieces + numerous full page colour lithograph illustrations by Freedman as called for (including end papers and pastedowns), the ills. drawn on stone by Freedman and printed at the Curwen Press, original pictorial cloth gilt (designed by Freedman), top edges gilt, orig. slipcase with printed paper label; Charlotte Bronte: 'Jane Eyre', NY, Heritage Press, 1942, full page colour lithographs, end papers, pastedowns by Barnett Freedman, orig. pictorial cloth gilt (by Freedman), slipcase; Dickens: 'Oliver Twist', NY, Heritage Press, 1939, 8 colour plates + in text b/w ills. by Barnett Freedman as called for, orig. pictorial cloth gilt (by Freedman), slipcase with pictorial labels to covers; plus Walter De La Mare 'Ghost Stories', L, Folio Society, 1956, full page colour litho plates and original cloth gilt by Barnett Freedman; plus 1 other Folio Society title illustrated by Freedman (6)