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Auction archive: Lot number 115

of Samosata. The True Historie of Lucian the Samosatenian, translated by Francis …

Auction 17.03.2016
17 Mar 2016
Estimate
£300 - £400
ca. US$426 - US$569
Price realised:
£420
ca. US$597
Auction archive: Lot number 115

of Samosata. The True Historie of Lucian the Samosatenian, translated by Francis …

Auction 17.03.2016
17 Mar 2016
Estimate
£300 - £400
ca. US$426 - US$569
Price realised:
£420
ca. US$597
Beschreibung:

of Samosata. The True Historie of Lucian the Samosatenian, translated by Francis Hickes, number 151 of 275 copies, text in English and Greek, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings Greek text and illustrations set in double column as border around English text, original morocco-backed cloth, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine a little scuffed and faded, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927 § Musaeus. Hero & Leander, translated by F.L.Lucas, number 154 of 500 copies, engraved pictorial title and plates by John Buckland Wright light browning to frontispiece, original pictorial two-tone cloth, spine faded, 1949 § Coleridge (S.T.) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, one of 570 copies designed by Bruce Rogers original cloth-backed marbled boards, uncut, later slip-case, Oxford, 1930 § Poe (E.A.) Two-Tales, number 65 of 100 copies, lithographed plates by Charles Keeping, original vellum-backed boards, uncut, slip-case, Beckenham, Chimaera Press, 1986, all uncut, the first two Golden Cockerel Press; and 5 others, private press, v.s. (9)

Auction archive: Lot number 115
Auction:
Datum:
17 Mar 2016
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

of Samosata. The True Historie of Lucian the Samosatenian, translated by Francis Hickes, number 151 of 275 copies, text in English and Greek, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings Greek text and illustrations set in double column as border around English text, original morocco-backed cloth, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine a little scuffed and faded, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927 § Musaeus. Hero & Leander, translated by F.L.Lucas, number 154 of 500 copies, engraved pictorial title and plates by John Buckland Wright light browning to frontispiece, original pictorial two-tone cloth, spine faded, 1949 § Coleridge (S.T.) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, one of 570 copies designed by Bruce Rogers original cloth-backed marbled boards, uncut, later slip-case, Oxford, 1930 § Poe (E.A.) Two-Tales, number 65 of 100 copies, lithographed plates by Charles Keeping, original vellum-backed boards, uncut, slip-case, Beckenham, Chimaera Press, 1986, all uncut, the first two Golden Cockerel Press; and 5 others, private press, v.s. (9)

Auction archive: Lot number 115
Auction:
Datum:
17 Mar 2016
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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