The following items were recently stolen from Wentworth & Leggett Rare Books. If you have any information on these items, please contact Barbara Wentworth at 919-688-5311 or 919-479-1938.
1. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures
London 1913
limited edition
signed by Arthur Rackham
index 73 of 90 to 76 of 90
2. 6 vol set of Fox Hunting stories by R.S. Surtees
Handsome half leather embosed
Original cover and spine tipped in the back of each volume
Illustrations by John Leech and Phiz
index 38 of 90 to 41 of 90
3. The Viscera of the Human Body
Edited by Jones Quain M.D. and W. J. Erasmus Wilson
Full leather cover medical atlas
Folio
Hand colored plates
London 1840
index 54 of 85 to 85 of 85
4. D. H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Florence, Italy (1928). Pirated edition.
Mulberry-colored boards and paper spine label same as original edition
5. Observations Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty...Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland (we're pretty sure this is the title)
by William Gilpin
late 1700's
2 vol full deep olive green leather
many aquatints
fore-edge painting on each vol
special lined slipcase fore each vol