Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(ALLEN PRESS.) Caxton, William. The Mirrour of the World. 33 text illustrations reproducing woodcuts in the 1481 Caxton edition; woodcut decorations and hand-colored initials by Mallette Dean. Folio, signatures loose as issued in three separate wrappers; folding green cloth drop-back box, corners frayed; publisher's announcement and order reply envelope laid in. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate. one of 130 unnumbered copies printed with a hand-press on french hand-made paper. Issued to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Allen Press. Kentfield, 1964