Nonesuch Press
Collection of limited editions
£550
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
including:
The Holy Bible, reprinted according to the Authorised Version 1661, 1924-7. One of 1,000 sets on japon vellum, 5 volumes, 4to, original boards, copper-engraved architectonic title-page by Stephen Gooden to each volume (with laid-in tissue-guards), fore and bottom edges untrimmed, the set largely unopened, some mild discolouration to spines;
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, compared together by that Grave, Learned Philosopher and Historiographer, Plutarke of Chaeronea, 1929. One of 1,550 sets on Arches paper, 5 volumes, large 8vo, original cloth, duplicate spine-labels tipped to rear pastedowns, endpapers browned;
Don Quixote de la Mancha, 1930. One of 1475 copies, 2 volumes, 8vo, original orange niger, spines darkened;
The Anatomy of Melancholy [by Robert Burton], 1925. One of 750 copies on Dutch paper, 2 volumes, large 8vo, original quarter vellum;
John Milton, Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake, 1926. One of 1,450 copies on Van Gelder rag paper, 2 volumes, 8vo, original quarter vellum (spines mottled);
The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations by George Herbert, 1927. One of 1,500 copies, original decorative cloth, frontispiece offset;
The Poems of Bishop Henry King, 1925. One of 900 copies, 4to, original japon, covers sprung, joints split, chipping to spine (18)