Lot 140
£202
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
all in original blue paper boards with linen or japon backstrips, titles comprising:
Sonnets and Verses by Enid Clay, 1925. One of 450 copies, 8vo, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, this copy ex libris Walter Lewis (1878-1960), master printer at the Cambridge University Press, with his pencilled annotations throughout containing recommendations for another edition (including a new setting of the title-page), Double Crown Club presentation plate addressed to W. Lewis on front pastedown ('This book was awarded the Crown for the year 1925. This is no. 15 of 52 copies issued to members of the Double Crown Club'), spine-label lifting [Chanticleer 25];
Masques and Poems by Peter Quennell, 1922. Out-of-series copy marked 'not for sale' (from the edition of 375 and 175 numbered copies for sale in Britain and America respectively), signed by the author on the limitation page, 4to, some discolouration to sides, contents toned, endpapers browned, a few spots [Chanticleer 9: 'The first illustrated book issued by the press'];
The xi. Bookes of the Golden Asse, 1923. One of 450 copies, 4to, initials printed in blue, discolouration to sides, lower fore corner of front board repaired [Chanticleer 15];
Jeremy Taylor. A Selection from his Works made by Martin Armstrong, 1923. One of 320 copies, 4to, initials printed in red [Chanticleer 16];
Songs and Poems by Henry Carey. With Decorations by Robert Gibbings, 1924. One of 380 copies, 4to, this copy signed by Robert Gibbings [Chanticleer 20];
Roving Shafts by Ingo Simon. [At the Golden Cockerel Press for] Thornton Butterworth Ltd., [1924]. One of 350 copies, 8vo;
Sonnets with Folk Songs from the Spanish by Havelock Ellis, 1925. One of 500 copies, 8vo, spine-label chipped [Chanticleer 24];
Maxims and Considerations of Chamfort. Translated, with an Introduction, by E. Powys Mathers, 1926. One of 550 copies, 2 volumes, 8vo [Chanticleer 41]
Provenance: Property of an English collector.