Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 116

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(GREGYNOG PRESS.) John, Lord of Joinville Seneschal of Champagne. The History of Saint Louis. 17 hand-colored armorial shields engraved on wood by Reynolds Stone, initials printed in red and blue, 2 maps drawn by Berthold Wolpe. Folio, full dark brown crushed morocco gilt, with device of shield with fleur-de-lis on front cover, top edges gilt, others uncut; usual offsetting from turn-ins to endpapers; slipcase; discreet booklabel to rear pastedown. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate. (Newtown), 1937

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number 30 of 200 copies of the edition considered "one of the most impressive books to come from the gregynog press." Harrop 37; page 158.