£945
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs ft. the Library of the Late William St Clair Pt II | 712
Auction: 28 September 2022 at 11:00 BST
Called by many the Canticle of Canticles. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. First edition, one of 750 copies, 4to, original cream cloth, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, bookplate of John Carter (1905-1975), bibliographer and influential writer on book collecting, dust jacket (spotted and chipped, panels separated along spine, two fragments laid in), free endpapers browned [Chanticleer 31; Evan Gill 275]
Provenance: Property of an English collector.