Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 18,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
RARE VELLUM EDITION (KELMSCOTT PRESS.) Syr Ysambrace. Edited by F. S. Ellis. Printed in red and black in Chaucer type. Woodcut frontispiece after a design by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, borders, and initials. 8vo, original linen-backed blue paper boards, title printed on front cover, boards slightly bowed with some marginal soiling, spine rubbed with a few small splits and 1/4-inch chip near foot; occasional light foxing to a few leaves at extreme outer margins. Norman J. Sondheim and William Bartlett (armorial) bookplates to front pastedown. (Hammersmith, 1897)

Additional Details

one of only 8 copies printed on vellum and in the original binding. A further 350 copies were printed on paper. The third and last of the reprints from the Camden Society's Thornton Romances, with the vellum edition scarce to appear at auction and desirable as such. Peterson A48.