Oct 01, 2014 - Sale 2358

Sale 2358 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ASHENDENE PRESS.) Horace. Carmina Alcaica. Initials in gilt, red, and blue. 69, [2] pages. 8vo, gilt-lettered limp cream vellum, some usual wrinkling and natural discoloration; some natural yellowing to leaves, darkest to preliminaries and between pages 10-17; owner's red and black poetic ink inscription in Italian on front endpaper. one of 150 unnumbered copies on Japanese vellum, after an edition of 25 bound in green vellum. Hornby xv; Franklin page 236. (Chelsea, 1903)