Oct 11, 2012 - Sale 2289

Sale 2289 - Lot 118

Price Realized: $ 4,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(DOVES PRESS.) Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Torquato Tasso. Ein Schauspiel. Printed in red, black, and gold on vellum. 8vo, publisher's orange morocco with gold borders and central rectangles on covers and spine compartments, title lettered in gilt, spine quite worn with loss at bands, tips, and separation along joints; some toning to signatures d and e with visible marginal spotting to e1-4, endpapers toned and with visible repair on front endpaper; bookplate. (Hammersmith), 1913
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one of only twelve unnumbered copies printed on vellum with gold initials by graily hewitt. The total edition was 200 on paper, 15 on vellum with black initials, and 12 copies on vellum with the gold initials. Tomkinson 57, 34; Kippenberg 7973.