Lot 242
Nonesuch Press
Collection of works
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
Shakespeare, William. The Works. The Text of the First Folio with Quarto variants and a selection of modern readings: edited by Herbert Farjeon. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929-33. One of 1,600 numbered sets, 7 volumes, large 8vo, original orange niger ruled and lettered in gilt, raised bands on spines, top edge rough cut gilt, indentations to front board of volume 5, ink staining to rear joint of volume 6;
Bible. The Authorized King James Version of 1611 now reprinted with the Apocrypha … Reproductions of 105 of the Sixteenth-Century Woodcuts of Bernard Salomon, 1963. 3 volumes, large 8vo, original deluxe buff pigskin binding, gilt lettering and raised bands to spines, contents mostly unopened, some discolouration to spines, final 2 leaves clumsily opened, pencil annotation to verso of colophon leaf, pen markings to New Testament title page;
Milton, John. Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake, 1923. One of 1,450 copies, 2 volumes, 8vo, original quarter vellum, patterned paper-covered boards, gilt titles to spines, corners bumped, heads of spines rubbed, volume 2 with ink spots to fore edge, many leaves unopened;
Blake, William. The Writings of William Blake Edited … by Geoffrey Keynes, 1924-25. One of 1,500 copies, 3 volumes, 4to, original quarter vellum, marbled boards, gilt title to spines, 58 plates, frontispiece by Emery Walker, owner's ink inscription to free endpaper of each volume, many leaves unopened, boards rubbed and corners bumped, edges worn;
[Burton, Robert]. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer, 1925. One of 750 copies, 2 volumes, small folio, original quarter vellum, patterned paper-covered boards, black and white woodcut title page and facing plate and further woodcut illustrations through the text, boards rubbed and corners and edges worn, vellum spines soiled;
Wilson, Mona. The Life of William Blake, 1926-27. One of 1,480 copies, 4to, original quarter vellum, marbled paper-covered boards, gilt title to spine, ex-library with withdrawn stamps to front paste-down and free endpaper, library ownership stamp to title page and top edges and reverse of each of the 24 black and white plates, borrowing slip pasted to free endpaper, spine discoloured and marked, edges of boards and corners rubbed, paper on boards worn (18)