Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 206

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(MERRYMOUNT PRESS.) Newark: A Series of Engravings on Wood. 5 full-page color wood engravings, each signed by Rudolph Ruzicka, and numerous black-and-white decorations. Thin small folio, 1/4 gilt-lettered cloth over marbled boards; board slipcase. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate. Newark, NJ: The Carteret Book Club, 1917

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number 196 of 200 copies. Printed by Ruzicka and D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. An uncommon and lovely volume celebrating the landscape of Newark, New Jersey, commissioned by the Carteret Book Club, one of the most active groups in New Jersey, devoted to promoting book arts.