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Title: Lot of 10 volumes Elizabethan & Classic literature Author: ** Place: New York Publisher: Limited Editions Club Date: 1929-79 Description: With: The Travels of Baron Munchausen. Intro. by Carl Van Doren. Illus. with engravings by John Held, Jr. 10½x7, ¼ green calf & dec. boards. 1 of 1500 copies printed by The Lakeside Press, 1929. * Butler, Samuel. Erewhon. Intro. by Aldous Huxley. Illus. by Rockwell Kent 9½x6¾, dec. cloth. 1 of 1500 copies printed by Pynson Printers, 1934. * Gay, John. The Beggar's Opera. Illus. with lithographs by Mariette Lydis 13½x9¼, blue cloth dec. in blind & gilt. 1 of 1500 copies printed by Count Giuseppe Govone on the presses of Audin & Cie, 1937. * The Essays of Francis Bacon Intro. by Christopher Morely. 13x8½, cloth-backed gilt-dec. boards, no slipcase. 1 of 1100 copies printed by William E. Rudge's Sons under the direction of Bruce Rogers (signed), 1944. * Jonson, Ben. Volpone, or The Fox. Illus. with stencil-colored plates after Rene ben Sussan. 11½x7½, buckram & patterned cloth, no jacket. 1 of 1500 copies designed by Francis Meynell & printed by Charles Batey, 1952. * Alarcon, Pedro Antonio De. The Three-Cornered Hat. Trans. by Martin Armstrong. Illus. in color & black & white after Roger Duvoisin. 11x7¼, ¼ gilt-lettered cloth & dec. boards. 1 of 1500 copies printed by the Plantin Press, 1959. * The Romance of Tristan & Iseult. Retold by Joseph Bedier. Trans. by Hilaire Belloc & Paul Rosenfeld. Intro. by Padraic Colum. Illus. with color plates by Serge Ivanoff 10x7¾, ¼ red morocco & gilt-stamped boards. 1 of 1500 copies designed by Adrian Wilson & printed at the Thistle Press, 1960. * Marlowe, Christopher. Four Plays. Ed. & intro. by Havelock Ellis. Illus. with copperplate engravings by Albert Decaris 12¼x9¼, ¼ green morocco & natural linen, monogram devices blind-stamped on front cover. 1 of 1500 copies designed by Adrian Wilson & printed at the Thistle Press, 1966. * Voltaire. Candide, Or Optimism. Trans. by Richard Aldington. Illus. with in-text monochromes & color plates by May Neama. 11x7¼, ¼ white leather & maroon linen, stamped in gilt. 1 of 1500 copies designed by Richard W. Ellis & printed by the Winchell Co., 1973. * The Lyrical Poems of François Villon. In French, with translations. 11x7, green cloth. 1 of 2000 copies printed by The Meriden Gravure Co., signed by the designer Stephen Harvard, 1979. Together, 10 volumes. Original bindings, slipcases (except one). Each signed by the illustrator and/or contributor in the colophon. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear overall; near fine or better, slipcases very good to near fine. Item number: 191700