May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(GILL, ERIC.) Lectiones ad Matutinum officii Defunctorum. Printed in red and black from Caslon O.F. on hand-made paper. 13 wood-engravings by Gill and printed music (Ad Processionem post Missam pro Defunctis). 4to, original full canvas, somewhat bowed, some blistering to upper portions of covers; light toning to endpapers, discreet raised owner's ex-libris on front blank; custom red cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered black calf spine label. Dichtling: St. Dominic's Press, 1925

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number 10 of 220 copies hand-numbered by printer hilary douglas c. pepler on front endpaper, the total edition. A scarce St. Dominic's Press book, the 45th of their publications. Gill 388b; Sewell 64.