Oct 14, 2010 - Sale 2225

Sale 2225 - Lot 261

Price Realized: $ 5,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(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, and initials. Woodcut printer's device. Edited by H. Halliday Sparling. Large 4to, original gilt-lettered full limp vellum with yapp edges, lacks ties, scattered soiling and rubbing; some marginal soiling to preliminaries. one of 300 copies on paper and the first book published and sold at the kelmscott press. (Hammersmith, 1893)