Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 175

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
(KELMSCOTT PRESS.) Guilelmus, Archbishop of Tyre. The History of Godefrey of Boloyne and the Conquest of Iherusalem. Printed in red and black in Troy and Chaucer types. Decorative woodcut title, borders, initials, and printer's device. Edited by H. Halliday Sparling. Large 4to, original full limp vellum gilt, yapp edges, tan silk ties, usual spotting and slight bowing to covers. Frederick W. French bookplate. one of 300 unnumbered copies on paper and the first book commercially published and sold at the kelmscott press. Sparling 15; Peterson A15. (Hammersmith, 1893)