Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 192

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(LEAF BOOK.) Group of 4 volumes containing orignal 16th Century leaves. Illustrated. Small folio, original bindings. Very good conditon. Each a limited edition. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, vd

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Pattison. The Estiennes. A Biographical Essay. With a leaf from Egregii Patris Ricardi de Superdivina Trinitate, Herni Estienne, Paris 1510 (zii. Chapter VI, page 178). 1949 A Short Account of the Life and Work of Wynkyn de Worde, with a Leaf from the Golden Legend Printed by Him at the Sign of the Sun in Fleet Street, London, the Year 1527 (Folio xxxvi The Acencyon of our lorde). 1/375 unnumbered copies. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. 1949 Muscatine. The Book of Geoffrey Chaucer. With a leaf from the undated edition of Chaucer's Works, circa 1551 (fol. ccrb., Of Hypliphile and Medea). One of 450 unnumbered copies. 1963 Booth. The Book Called Holinshed's Chronicles. With a leaf from the 1587 edition and two others. 1/500 unnumbered copies (Aaaa.iii Edward the fift [sic]). (San Francisco): The Book Club of California, 1968.