Lot 258
Nonesuch Press, Shakespeare Head Press, Cresset Press, etc.
Group of limited editions
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Nonesuch Press. The Anatomy of Melancholy ... by Democritus Junior [Robert Burton]. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer, 1925. One of 750 copies on Dutch paper, 2 volumes, folio, original cloth-backed patterned boards, patterned slipcase;
Idem. X Sermons preached by that Late Learned and Rev. Divine John Donne, 1923. One of 725 copies, 4to, original holland-backed boards;
Idem. The Mask of Comus. John Milton. Henry Lawes ... Ornamented by M. R. H. Farrar, 1937. One of 925 copies, folio, original japon, slipcase;
Shakespeare Head Press. Ovyde hys Booke of Methamorphose ... Translated by William Caxton. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1924. One of 375 copies on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper, 4to, original holland-backed boards;
Idem. The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe. Translated from the Greek of Achilles Tatius by William Burton. Reprinted for the first time from a copy now unique printed by Thomas Creede in 1597. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1923. One of 498 copies on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper, 4to, original holland-backed boards;
Cresset Press. Wiliam Painter. The Palace of Pleasure. With ... Illustrations by Douglas Percy Bliss, 1929. Numbered 28 and probably one of 30 sets on hand-made paper (in addition to 500 copies on mould-made paper), 4 volumes, 4to, original holland-backed patterned boards;
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays. London: [by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh, for] Chatto & Windus, 1892. One of 100 copies on large parge paper, signed by the published, 4to, recent red quarter morocco, marbled sides, slipcase;
Crockett, S. R. The Stickit Minister and some Common Men. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1894. 'Eighth and illustrated edition', one of 350 copies signed by the author, 4to, recent red quarter cloth, marbled sides, slipcase;
together with Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard, 1960 (first edition in English, 8vo, rebound in leopard-print textured boards)