Folio Society
Group of five deluxe limited editions
£938
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
comprising:
The Pearl Manuscript, 2015. One of 989 copies, small 4to, original purple goatskin gilt, with commentary volume, housed together in original solander box containing non-integral recessed velveteen panel as issued;
William Shakespeare. Sonnets and Poems. Edited by Colin Burrow, 2009. One of 1,980 copies, folio, original blue half goatskin, with commentary volume, original solander box;
Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer ... with Wood Engravings by Eric Gill, printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1927 [2011]. One of 1,250 copies, folio, original black goatskin gilt, all edges gilt, with commentary volume, original solander box;
The William Morris Manuscript of the Odes of Horace, 2014. One of 980 copies, small 4to, original black goatskin, with commentary volume (4to, original boards, in original solander box with velveteen-lined recess;
together with one other deluxe manuscript facsimile, not Folio Society (Codex Sinaiticus, London: British Library, 2010, large 4to, original cloth, slipcase) (7)