Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(ASHENDENE PRESS.) Francis of Assisi, Saint. I fioretti del glorioso poverello di Cristo. Printed in red and black. 54 woodcut illustrations after Charles M. Gere. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered limp vellum with green cloth ties, natural discoloration. Ex-collection Helmut Friedlaender, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Hornby XXXI. (Chelsea, 1922)

Additional Details

one of 240 copies on paper and a presentation copy, signed by the printer c.h. st. john hornby on the front free endpaper in 1922 and with an Autograph Postcard laid in, presenting the volume to Mr. Castelvecchio.