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Auction archive: Lot number 163

Private Presses & Typography.- c.30 pieces of ephemera and other printed matter, 1907-53.

Estimate
£100 - £150
ca. US$126 - US$190
Price realised:
£100
ca. US$126
Auction archive: Lot number 163

Private Presses & Typography.- c.30 pieces of ephemera and other printed matter, 1907-53.

Estimate
£100 - £150
ca. US$126 - US$190
Price realised:
£100
ca. US$126
Beschreibung:

Private Presses & Typography.- c.30 pieces of ephemera and other printed matter, comprising a 'Gutenberg Keepsake' with replica f. of the Mazarin Bible, 'A Bodoni Keepsake' (offered only to members of The American Institute of Graphic Arts) with type set by Morris Fuller Benton, both with tipped-in facsimile portrait, both printed by John Henry Nash and issued by The Zellerbach Paper Company, The Lakeside Press' Abraham Lincoln tribute 'Man for the Ages', prospectuses, respectively, for Graf-Verlag's facsimile edition of The Book of Kells, for The Shakespeare Head Press' edition of The Whole Works of Homer (this with sample engraving by John Farleigh), and for The Lakeside Galleries' exhibition 'Five Centuries of the Printed Bible' (the last with specially-printed wood engraving by Bernard Brussel-Smith , a publications list dated 1906 for Daniel Edwards Kennedy's The Queen's Shop of Chestnut Hill, galley proofs for his publications The Rat-Trap Man and Golf in Sapphira's Days, also several duplicated advertising pieces, prospectus for Morison's John Fell: The University Press and the 'Fell' Types, and a broadside carrying Eisenhower's 'Don't Join the Book Burners', some browning, soiling, and foxing, a few nicks and creases, 4to & folio, 1907-53.

Auction archive: Lot number 163
Auction:
Datum:
6 Jun 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
Beschreibung:

Private Presses & Typography.- c.30 pieces of ephemera and other printed matter, comprising a 'Gutenberg Keepsake' with replica f. of the Mazarin Bible, 'A Bodoni Keepsake' (offered only to members of The American Institute of Graphic Arts) with type set by Morris Fuller Benton, both with tipped-in facsimile portrait, both printed by John Henry Nash and issued by The Zellerbach Paper Company, The Lakeside Press' Abraham Lincoln tribute 'Man for the Ages', prospectuses, respectively, for Graf-Verlag's facsimile edition of The Book of Kells, for The Shakespeare Head Press' edition of The Whole Works of Homer (this with sample engraving by John Farleigh), and for The Lakeside Galleries' exhibition 'Five Centuries of the Printed Bible' (the last with specially-printed wood engraving by Bernard Brussel-Smith , a publications list dated 1906 for Daniel Edwards Kennedy's The Queen's Shop of Chestnut Hill, galley proofs for his publications The Rat-Trap Man and Golf in Sapphira's Days, also several duplicated advertising pieces, prospectus for Morison's John Fell: The University Press and the 'Fell' Types, and a broadside carrying Eisenhower's 'Don't Join the Book Burners', some browning, soiling, and foxing, a few nicks and creases, 4to & folio, 1907-53.

Auction archive: Lot number 163
Auction:
Datum:
6 Jun 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
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