Mar 09, 2006 - Sale 2071

Sale 2071 - Lot 78

Price Realized: $ 2,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
"IT WILL BE A BIG BOOK" (KELMSCOTT PRESS.) Caxton, William. The Golden Legend. Lettering designed by William Morris; wood-engraved illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones. 3 volumes. Folio, linen-backed blue boards, scattered soiling, spine ends worn, heaviest to Volume 3 which also bears dark glue stain near foot, labels chipped, mostly gone on Volume 1 where front joint is cracked as well; few separations near preliminaries, small clean tear to half-title of Volume 2. Hammersmith, (1892)
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one of 500 sets. with an als by william morris concerning the golden legend.