Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 77

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(ERAGNY PRESS.) White, Diana. The Descent of Ishtar. Printed in red, green and black. Double-page floral border at front, woodcut illustration, initials and printer's device by or after Lucien Pissarro. Small 8vo, original patterned boards with printed paper label on front cover, some soiling and dampstaining to upper margins of covers not affecting label, backstrip becoming brittle, offsetting to endpapers as usual. Norman J. Sondheim and George Parker Winship bookplates. Hammersmith, 1903

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one of 226 unnumbered copies. this copy from the collection of scholar and noted bibliophile george parker winship (1871-1952), who was in charge of the Harry Elkins Widener rare books collection at Harvard University.