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Auction archive: Lot number 533

[DE LA MORE PRESS]. The Communion Service According to the ...

Reserve
US$1,500
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 533

[DE LA MORE PRESS]. The Communion Service According to the ...

Reserve
US$1,500
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

[DE LA MORE PRESS]. The Communion Service According to the Use of the Church of England. Together with the Kalendar, Notes and Devotions. Edited by Vernon Staley. London: The De La More Press, 1903. Royal 8vo (241 x 146 mm). Printed in red and black ON ALL VELLUM, numerous full–page woodcut illustrations and borders after designs by Blanche McManus. Full contemporary French levant with a central cross gilt within an arabesque border in gilt filled in with blindstamped designs, 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, arabesque framing gilt with tooled mandorla centerpieces gilt in 5 compartments, gilt lettering in remainder, all edges gilt, gilt turn–ins, gilt stamp–signed by Riviere. Provenance: William Strang Steel (bookplate); old catalogue note to front pastedown. LIMITED EDITION, number 8 of 20 copies PRINTED ON ALL VELLUM AND SIGNED BY THE PRINTER ALEXANDER MORING of which Ransom calls being one of the four “special printings” done by the press. In a very sumptuous binding. Ransom, De La More 2.

Auction archive: Lot number 533
Auction:
Datum:
26 Feb 2022
Auction house:
Potter & Potter Auctions
3759 N. Ravenswood Ave.
Suite 121
Chicago, IL 60613
United States
info@potterauctions.com
+1 (0)773 472 1442
+1 (0)773 260 1462
Beschreibung:

[DE LA MORE PRESS]. The Communion Service According to the Use of the Church of England. Together with the Kalendar, Notes and Devotions. Edited by Vernon Staley. London: The De La More Press, 1903. Royal 8vo (241 x 146 mm). Printed in red and black ON ALL VELLUM, numerous full–page woodcut illustrations and borders after designs by Blanche McManus. Full contemporary French levant with a central cross gilt within an arabesque border in gilt filled in with blindstamped designs, 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, arabesque framing gilt with tooled mandorla centerpieces gilt in 5 compartments, gilt lettering in remainder, all edges gilt, gilt turn–ins, gilt stamp–signed by Riviere. Provenance: William Strang Steel (bookplate); old catalogue note to front pastedown. LIMITED EDITION, number 8 of 20 copies PRINTED ON ALL VELLUM AND SIGNED BY THE PRINTER ALEXANDER MORING of which Ransom calls being one of the four “special printings” done by the press. In a very sumptuous binding. Ransom, De La More 2.

Auction archive: Lot number 533
Auction:
Datum:
26 Feb 2022
Auction house:
Potter & Potter Auctions
3759 N. Ravenswood Ave.
Suite 121
Chicago, IL 60613
United States
info@potterauctions.com
+1 (0)773 472 1442
+1 (0)773 260 1462
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