THE DOVES PRESS --Thomas James COBDEN-SANDERSON (1840-1922). Amantium Irae. Letters to Two Friends 1864-1867 . Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1914. 4° (237 x 166mm). Printed in red and black. Portrait frontispiece and 2 illustrations. Original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery, lettered in gilt on the spine (upper hinge cracked, vellum slightly bowed). Provenance : Antonia Speyer (presentation inscription 'To Antonia Speyer "for remembrance" from her affectionate gossip C.S. 1 January 1914') -- Myles Standish Slocum (sale, Christie's New York, 20 November 1981, lot 196). ONE OF 150 COPIES ON PAPER. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Cobden-Sanderson to the mother-in-law of his daughter Stella on the day of publication. Loosely inserted is the broadsheet 'Apologia' (Tidcombe Doves Press DPE 62). Tidcombe Doves Press DP 33.
THE DOVES PRESS --Thomas James COBDEN-SANDERSON (1840-1922). Amantium Irae. Letters to Two Friends 1864-1867 . Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1914. 4° (237 x 166mm). Printed in red and black. Portrait frontispiece and 2 illustrations. Original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery, lettered in gilt on the spine (upper hinge cracked, vellum slightly bowed). Provenance : Antonia Speyer (presentation inscription 'To Antonia Speyer "for remembrance" from her affectionate gossip C.S. 1 January 1914') -- Myles Standish Slocum (sale, Christie's New York, 20 November 1981, lot 196). ONE OF 150 COPIES ON PAPER. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Cobden-Sanderson to the mother-in-law of his daughter Stella on the day of publication. Loosely inserted is the broadsheet 'Apologia' (Tidcombe Doves Press DPE 62). Tidcombe Doves Press DP 33.
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