Essex House Press, 2 volumes, comprising Cellini, Benvenuto
£320
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 10 September 2014 at 12:00 BST
Description
The treatises... on goldsmithing and sculpture. London: E. Arnold, Printed by C.R. Ashbee at the Guild's Press at Essex House, 1898. 4to, number 203 of 600 copies, 11 plates, contemporary vellum gilt, others uncut, faint traces of a few discreetly removed library stamps; Erasmus, Desiderius The praise of folly. Essex House Press, 1901. First edition, 4to, number 249 of 250 copies, woodcuts and borders designed by William Strang and cut by B. Sleigh, original pictorial vellum, uncut, binding slightly spotted (2)