Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?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 full limp vellum gilt, yapp edges, silk ties, usual spotting and bowing to covers, crease to lower spine. Norman J. Sondheim 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)