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Auction archive: Lot number 82

Chaucer (Geoffrey) - The Works

Estimate
£30,000 - £40,000
ca. US$46,011 - US$61,348
Price realised:
£25,000
ca. US$38,342
Auction archive: Lot number 82

Chaucer (Geoffrey) - The Works

Estimate
£30,000 - £40,000
ca. US$46,011 - US$61,348
Price realised:
£25,000
ca. US$38,342
Beschreibung:

The Works
edited by F.S.Ellis, one of 425 copies on paper , printed in red and black in Chaucer and Troy types, woodcut title, borders and initials by C.E.Keates, W.H.Hooper and W.Spielmeyer after William Morris 87 woodcut illustrations by W.H.Hooper after Sir Edward Burne-Jones bookplate of Marie-Louise and Samuel Rosenthal on front pastedown, slight traces of tape on front free endpaper where note previously tipped in, original holland-backed boards, uncut, paper label on spine, boards very slightly soiled, paper on lower cover a little scuffed and repaired at edge adjoining cloth, preserved in fleece-lined morocco-backed cloth drop-back box with gilt-stamped black morocco label on spine and upper cover, [Peterson 40; PMM 367 note], folio, Kelmscott Press, 1896.

Auction archive: Lot number 82
Auction:
Datum:
6 Nov 2008
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:

The Works
edited by F.S.Ellis, one of 425 copies on paper , printed in red and black in Chaucer and Troy types, woodcut title, borders and initials by C.E.Keates, W.H.Hooper and W.Spielmeyer after William Morris 87 woodcut illustrations by W.H.Hooper after Sir Edward Burne-Jones bookplate of Marie-Louise and Samuel Rosenthal on front pastedown, slight traces of tape on front free endpaper where note previously tipped in, original holland-backed boards, uncut, paper label on spine, boards very slightly soiled, paper on lower cover a little scuffed and repaired at edge adjoining cloth, preserved in fleece-lined morocco-backed cloth drop-back box with gilt-stamped black morocco label on spine and upper cover, [Peterson 40; PMM 367 note], folio, Kelmscott Press, 1896.

Auction archive: Lot number 82
Auction:
Datum:
6 Nov 2008
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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