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Auction archive: Lot number 80

(Francis, printer)] [An almost complete collection of the limited editions issued …

Auction 09.04.2015
9 Apr 2015
Estimate
£7,000 - £9,000
ca. US$10,463 - US$13,453
Price realised:
£8,500
ca. US$12,705
Auction archive: Lot number 80

(Francis, printer)] [An almost complete collection of the limited editions issued …

Auction 09.04.2015
9 Apr 2015
Estimate
£7,000 - £9,000
ca. US$10,463 - US$13,453
Price realised:
£8,500
ca. US$12,705
Beschreibung:

(Francis, printer)] [An almost complete collection of the limited editions issued by the press], comprising 102 titles of the 112 limited editions issued (lacking only Dreyfus nos.86, 94, 98, 101, 103, 110, 116, 122, 124 & 128), limited editions, plates and illustrations, original bindings, some a little rubbed, [Dreyfus 1-142], Nonesuch Press, 1923-81; plus a few duplicates, some of the unlimited issues & Noneusch Cygnets, and a quantity of prospectuses and ephemera relating to the press, v.s. (qty) *** A very good collection of one of the major private presses of the mid-twentieth century; including the magnificent Nonesuch Dickens and lacking only some of the minor titles. The missing limited editions are as follows: 86. John Donne's Sermon of Valediction, 1932 94. Mrs. S.T.Coleridge's Minnow Among Tritons, 1934 98. John Collier's The Devil and All, 1934 101. Ruth Lowinsky's More Lovely Food, 1935 103. The Note-book of William Blake 1935 110. The Illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil, 1937 116. Francis Meynell's Poems, 3 editions, 1944-45 122. Gerard Manley Hopkins's Selected Poems, 1954 124. The Phanseys of William Cavendish, Marquis of Newcastle, 1956 128. Francis Meynell's Poems & Pieces 1911 to 1961, 1961 IMPORTANT - SALE ROOM NOTICE: This lot now contains all but the first mentioned of the missing items (i.e. lacking only Donne's Sermon of Valediction of the limited editions by the press) If the collections fails to sell as a whole it will be split and offered in the following lots 81-96:

Auction archive: Lot number 80
Auction:
Datum:
9 Apr 2015
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:

(Francis, printer)] [An almost complete collection of the limited editions issued by the press], comprising 102 titles of the 112 limited editions issued (lacking only Dreyfus nos.86, 94, 98, 101, 103, 110, 116, 122, 124 & 128), limited editions, plates and illustrations, original bindings, some a little rubbed, [Dreyfus 1-142], Nonesuch Press, 1923-81; plus a few duplicates, some of the unlimited issues & Noneusch Cygnets, and a quantity of prospectuses and ephemera relating to the press, v.s. (qty) *** A very good collection of one of the major private presses of the mid-twentieth century; including the magnificent Nonesuch Dickens and lacking only some of the minor titles. The missing limited editions are as follows: 86. John Donne's Sermon of Valediction, 1932 94. Mrs. S.T.Coleridge's Minnow Among Tritons, 1934 98. John Collier's The Devil and All, 1934 101. Ruth Lowinsky's More Lovely Food, 1935 103. The Note-book of William Blake 1935 110. The Illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil, 1937 116. Francis Meynell's Poems, 3 editions, 1944-45 122. Gerard Manley Hopkins's Selected Poems, 1954 124. The Phanseys of William Cavendish, Marquis of Newcastle, 1956 128. Francis Meynell's Poems & Pieces 1911 to 1961, 1961 IMPORTANT - SALE ROOM NOTICE: This lot now contains all but the first mentioned of the missing items (i.e. lacking only Donne's Sermon of Valediction of the limited editions by the press) If the collections fails to sell as a whole it will be split and offered in the following lots 81-96:

Auction archive: Lot number 80
Auction:
Datum:
9 Apr 2015
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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