Nov 10, 2009 - Sale 2195

Sale 2195 - Lot 202

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(NASH, JOHN HENRY; printer.) St. Bonaventure. The Life of St. Francis of Assisi. Two woodblocks by William Wilke, printed in red, orange, and black, set in Gothique Ancienne of Phillipe Pigouchet. Small folio, bound in vellum sheets with printed Gregorian chant in red, blue, black, and gold, gilt-lettered orange morocco spine, few small marks; publisher's chemise and slipcase edged in orange cloth. Prospectus laid in. San Francisco, 1931
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one of only 85 specially bound copies; this copy reserved for the artist, William Wilke, though not containing the hand-colored initials as stated in the prospectus (not mentioned the colophon). Published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of San Francisco's 1906 fire to honor the city's patron saint, Francis of Assisi.