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Auction archive: Lot number 22

Song of Songs (The) called by many the Canticle of Canticles

Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,946 - US$3,928
Price realised:
£3,600
ca. US$7,070
Auction archive: Lot number 22

Song of Songs (The) called by many the Canticle of Canticles

Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,946 - US$3,928
Price realised:
£3,600
ca. US$7,070
Beschreibung:

Song of Songs (The) called by many the Canticle of Canticles
number 14 of 30 special copies signed by the artist and printer (Robert Gibbings , from an edition limited to 750, printed in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations by Eric Gill all hand-coloured , with initialled autograph letter from Gibbings to Thomas Balston tipped in at beginning, signed by Balston on front free endpaper, and with 2 proof engravings from the book, one numbered 7/12 and signed by “Eric G” , loosely inserted, original cream buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, slightly soiled, [Chanticleer 31], 4to, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1925.

Auction archive: Lot number 22
Auction:
Datum:
15 May 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:

Song of Songs (The) called by many the Canticle of Canticles
number 14 of 30 special copies signed by the artist and printer (Robert Gibbings , from an edition limited to 750, printed in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations by Eric Gill all hand-coloured , with initialled autograph letter from Gibbings to Thomas Balston tipped in at beginning, signed by Balston on front free endpaper, and with 2 proof engravings from the book, one numbered 7/12 and signed by “Eric G” , loosely inserted, original cream buckram, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, slightly soiled, [Chanticleer 31], 4to, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1925.

Auction archive: Lot number 22
Auction:
Datum:
15 May 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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