Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
Price Realized: $10,625 Includes buyer's premium
including: William Morris, Gothic Architecture: a Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893, edition of 45 copies printed in Golden type on vellum, original boards and linen spine Sire Degrevaunt, Hammersmith: printed by William Morris at Kelmscott Press, 1896, edition of 350 copies printed in Chaucer type, with wood-engraved frontispiece by Edward Burne-Jones, ornamental woodcut borders, original boards and linen spine, from the Typography Collection of the Regents of the University of Minnesota library, with bookplate, illegibly inscribed in ink and dated 1918 2 copies of The Tale of the Emperor Coustans and of Over Sea, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894, translated from the ancient French by William Morris, edition of 525 copies printed in Chaucer type, original boards and linen spine; one from the library of Henry William Poor, the other from the library of Charles de Forest, each with bookplate Paul Thompson, The Work of William Morris, New York: The Viking Press, 1967 Robert Louis Stevenson, The Misadventures of John Nicholson, New York: M.J. Ivers & Co., No. 60 of the American Series issued monthly, in leather hardcase
largest: 9 1/4 x 7 x 1 1/8 inches
each with wear including toning, breaks and tears to covers
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