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Auction archive: Lot number 482

PRESS BOOKS]. MORRIS, William. Art and the Beauty of the Earth. 1899. -- Another copy. -- Some Hints of Pattern-Designing. 1899. -- Another copy. -- Architecture and History and Westminster Abbey. 1900. -- Address...to Students of the Birmingham Muni...

Auction 11.12.2001
11 Dec 2001
Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$4,112
Auction archive: Lot number 482

PRESS BOOKS]. MORRIS, William. Art and the Beauty of the Earth. 1899. -- Another copy. -- Some Hints of Pattern-Designing. 1899. -- Another copy. -- Architecture and History and Westminster Abbey. 1900. -- Address...to Students of the Birmingham Muni...

Auction 11.12.2001
11 Dec 2001
Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$4,112
Beschreibung:

PRESS BOOKS]. MORRIS, William. Art and the Beauty of the Earth. 1899. -- Another copy. -- Some Hints of Pattern-Designing. 1899. -- Another copy. -- Architecture and History and Westminster Abbey. 1900. -- Address...to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894. 1898. All above 8 o , printed in London for the Kelmscott Press. -- HALL, Joseph. Fritz KREDEL, illustrator. Samson. [Lexington: Stamperia del Santuccio, 1972]. 4 o . Morocco-backed marbled boards. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by illustrator and numbered 9 of 53 copies. -- PLATO. Crito, A Socratic Dialogue. Paris: The Pleiad, 1926. 8 o . Marbled boards (spine chipped). Slipcase (defective). LIMITED EDITION numbered 239 of 475 copies, and being the first use of a new type by the Officina Bodoni. -- MARDERSTEIG, Giovanni. The Officina Bodoni. Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, [1980]. LIMITED EDITION of 1500 copies. -- WAKEMAN, Geoffrey. Plates to Accompany Victorian Book Illustration. Loughborough: The Plough Press, 1974. 2 o , a collection of disbound plates. Quarter-goatskin and marbled boards. Matching marbled slipcase. LIMITED EDITION numbered 19 of 23 copies. -- English Hand Made Papers. Loughborough: The Plough Press, 1972. 2 o , a collection of paper samples. Original cloth. LIMITED EDITION numbered 74 of 75 copies. -- Typographia Naturalis. Wymondham: Brewhouse Press, 1967. LIMITED EDITION numbered 309 of 333 copies. -- Indian Hand Made Papers. Leicestershire: The Plough Press, 1977. 8 o , a collection of loose paper samples. -- HUGHES-STANTON, Penelope. The Wood-Engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton. Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1991. 2 o . Quarter-morocco. Slipcase. LIMITED EDITION numbered 24 of 112 copies. -- The Stanbrook Abbey Press. Worcester, 1970. LIMITED EDITION of 450 copies. -- Chapters on Writing and Printing. Lexington: The Anvil Press, 1963. LIMITED EDITION numbered 58 of 134 copies. -- SHAKESPEARE, William. Eric GILL illustrator. Hamlet. [New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1933. 8 o . LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by Gill and numbered 1189 of 1500 copies. -- 7 other vols. by the Limited Editions Club. -- 4 other vols. by the Ballantyne Press. -- and approx. 120 others including 20 Typophiles chapbooks, 8 miniature books by The Hillside Press, The Plough Press, Grange Fibre Leicester, Golden Cockerel Press, Gravesend Press, Stanbrook Abbey Press, The Columbia University Press, and others. Together approx. 150, v.p., v.d., various sizes in original bindings (conditions vary, generally good). (150)

Auction archive: Lot number 482
Auction:
Datum:
11 Dec 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
Beschreibung:

PRESS BOOKS]. MORRIS, William. Art and the Beauty of the Earth. 1899. -- Another copy. -- Some Hints of Pattern-Designing. 1899. -- Another copy. -- Architecture and History and Westminster Abbey. 1900. -- Address...to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894. 1898. All above 8 o , printed in London for the Kelmscott Press. -- HALL, Joseph. Fritz KREDEL, illustrator. Samson. [Lexington: Stamperia del Santuccio, 1972]. 4 o . Morocco-backed marbled boards. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by illustrator and numbered 9 of 53 copies. -- PLATO. Crito, A Socratic Dialogue. Paris: The Pleiad, 1926. 8 o . Marbled boards (spine chipped). Slipcase (defective). LIMITED EDITION numbered 239 of 475 copies, and being the first use of a new type by the Officina Bodoni. -- MARDERSTEIG, Giovanni. The Officina Bodoni. Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, [1980]. LIMITED EDITION of 1500 copies. -- WAKEMAN, Geoffrey. Plates to Accompany Victorian Book Illustration. Loughborough: The Plough Press, 1974. 2 o , a collection of disbound plates. Quarter-goatskin and marbled boards. Matching marbled slipcase. LIMITED EDITION numbered 19 of 23 copies. -- English Hand Made Papers. Loughborough: The Plough Press, 1972. 2 o , a collection of paper samples. Original cloth. LIMITED EDITION numbered 74 of 75 copies. -- Typographia Naturalis. Wymondham: Brewhouse Press, 1967. LIMITED EDITION numbered 309 of 333 copies. -- Indian Hand Made Papers. Leicestershire: The Plough Press, 1977. 8 o , a collection of loose paper samples. -- HUGHES-STANTON, Penelope. The Wood-Engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton. Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1991. 2 o . Quarter-morocco. Slipcase. LIMITED EDITION numbered 24 of 112 copies. -- The Stanbrook Abbey Press. Worcester, 1970. LIMITED EDITION of 450 copies. -- Chapters on Writing and Printing. Lexington: The Anvil Press, 1963. LIMITED EDITION numbered 58 of 134 copies. -- SHAKESPEARE, William. Eric GILL illustrator. Hamlet. [New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1933. 8 o . LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by Gill and numbered 1189 of 1500 copies. -- 7 other vols. by the Limited Editions Club. -- 4 other vols. by the Ballantyne Press. -- and approx. 120 others including 20 Typophiles chapbooks, 8 miniature books by The Hillside Press, The Plough Press, Grange Fibre Leicester, Golden Cockerel Press, Gravesend Press, Stanbrook Abbey Press, The Columbia University Press, and others. Together approx. 150, v.p., v.d., various sizes in original bindings (conditions vary, generally good). (150)

Auction archive: Lot number 482
Auction:
Datum:
11 Dec 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
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