Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 570
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(ELSTON PRESS.) Daye, Angell. Daphnis and Chloe. Printed in red and black. 4 woodcut illustrations by H. M. O'Kane; ornamental initials. 4to, vellum gilt with cloth ties, light wear; one-inch split at lower front hinge. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate. one of 160 unnumbered copies printed by Clarke Conwell. The text, here newly printed, is that of the unique copy, dated 1587, of Angell Day's translation from Amyot's version of the Greek of Longus. New Rochelle, 1904

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with--Keats. Endymion. Title pages and initials by H. M. O'Kane. 8vo, gilt-lettered cloth. One of 160 copies. Sondheim and previous owner's bookplates on pastedown. New Rochelle: Elston Press, 1902.