£938
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 694
Auction: 13 July 2022 at 11:00 BST
Translated from the French of Maurice de Guérin by T. S. Moore. London: printed at the Ballantyne Press, this book is published by Hacon & Ricketts, 1899. One of 150 copies, 8vo, original white cloth, spotting to top edge of text-block, endpapers browned;
Old Stile Press. In the Margins of Shakespeare. George Mackay Brown. Wood-Engravings by Llewllyn Thomas, 1991. One of 220 copies signed by author and artist, narrow folio, original hand-painted boards, slipcase;
St Dominic's Press. God's Book and Other Poems by Fr. Vincent McNabb, O.P., 1930. One of 430 copies, 8vo, original quarter cloth, manuscript poetry to rear endpapers;
and some 27 others including Gregynog (Chosen Essays by Edward Thomas, 1926, one of 350 copies; Don Quixote. An Introductory Essay in Psychology by Salvador de Madariaga, 1934, one of 250 copies), Golden Cockerel (Doctor Heraclius Gloss by Guy de Maupassant, 1933, one of 150 copies), Embers Handpress (Federico Garcia Lorca, Sonnets of Dark Love, 1984, one of 50 copies on Charter Oak paper, signed by the translators, from the total edition of 126), and various works by minor presses (e.g. Enitharmon, Black Sparrow, Rampant Lions, Grabhorn, Aylesford, Celtic Cross, and similar) (approx. 30)