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Auction archive: Lot number 207

Nonesuch Press Collection of limited editions

Estimate
n. a.
Price realised:
£550
ca. US$653
Auction archive: Lot number 207

Nonesuch Press Collection of limited editions

Estimate
n. a.
Price realised:
£550
ca. US$653
Beschreibung:

including: The Holy Bible, reprinted according to the Authorised Version 1661, 1924-7. One of 1,000 sets on japon vellum, 5 volumes, 4to, original boards, copper-engraved architectonic title-page by Stephen Gooden to each volume (with laid-in tissue-guards), fore and bottom edges untrimmed, the set largely unopened, some mild discolouration to spines; The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, compared together by that Grave, Learned Philosopher and Historiographer, Plutarke of Chaeronea, 1929. One of 1,550 sets on Arches paper, 5 volumes, large 8vo, original cloth, duplicate spine-labels tipped to rear pastedowns, endpapers browned; Don Quixote de la Mancha, 1930. One of 1475 copies, 2 volumes, 8vo, original orange niger, spines darkened; The Anatomy of Melancholy [by Robert Burton], 1925. One of 750 copies on Dutch paper, 2 volumes, large 8vo, original quarter vellum; John Milton Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake 1926. One of 1,450 copies on Van Gelder rag paper, 2 volumes, 8vo, original quarter vellum (spines mottled); The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations by George Herbert 1927. One of 1,500 copies, original decorative cloth, frontispiece offset; The Poems of Bishop Henry King, 1925. One of 900 copies, 4to, original japon, covers sprung, joints split, chipping to spine (18)

Auction archive: Lot number 207
Auction:
Datum:
13 Jul 2022
Auction house:
Lyon & Turnbull
33 Broughton Place
Edinburgh, EH1 3RR
United Kingdom
info@lyonandturnbull.com
+44 (0)131 5578844
Beschreibung:

including: The Holy Bible, reprinted according to the Authorised Version 1661, 1924-7. One of 1,000 sets on japon vellum, 5 volumes, 4to, original boards, copper-engraved architectonic title-page by Stephen Gooden to each volume (with laid-in tissue-guards), fore and bottom edges untrimmed, the set largely unopened, some mild discolouration to spines; The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, compared together by that Grave, Learned Philosopher and Historiographer, Plutarke of Chaeronea, 1929. One of 1,550 sets on Arches paper, 5 volumes, large 8vo, original cloth, duplicate spine-labels tipped to rear pastedowns, endpapers browned; Don Quixote de la Mancha, 1930. One of 1475 copies, 2 volumes, 8vo, original orange niger, spines darkened; The Anatomy of Melancholy [by Robert Burton], 1925. One of 750 copies on Dutch paper, 2 volumes, large 8vo, original quarter vellum; John Milton Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake 1926. One of 1,450 copies on Van Gelder rag paper, 2 volumes, 8vo, original quarter vellum (spines mottled); The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations by George Herbert 1927. One of 1,500 copies, original decorative cloth, frontispiece offset; The Poems of Bishop Henry King, 1925. One of 900 copies, 4to, original japon, covers sprung, joints split, chipping to spine (18)

Auction archive: Lot number 207
Auction:
Datum:
13 Jul 2022
Auction house:
Lyon & Turnbull
33 Broughton Place
Edinburgh, EH1 3RR
United Kingdom
info@lyonandturnbull.com
+44 (0)131 5578844
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