Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 179

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(KELMSCOTT PRESS.) Morris, William; translator. The Tale of the Emperor Coustans and of Over Sea. Printed in red and black in Chaucer type, wood-engraved titles, borders and initials designed by Morris. 16mo, full red crushed morocco with floral gilt borders and spine decoration, by Riviere & Son, joints a little rubbed; green silk endpapers, top edges trimmed and gilt, others uncut, original blue printed wrappers bound in rear; plain red buckram slipcase; laid-in bookplate by Kroch's Book Exhibit from the 1933 Chicago Exposition. one of 525 unnumbered copies on perch paper of this little anthology of two medieval French romances translated by Morris. Peterson A26. (Hammersmith 1894)