Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 216

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(NONESUCH PRESS.) Burton, Robert. Anatomie of Melancholy. 2 volumes. Frontispiece, title-page and numerous black and white drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. 4to, publisher's gilt-lettered 1/4 vellum over patterned boards, spines slightly tanned, lower edge of front cover on volume 2 discolored. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate. number 300 on dutch paper of 750 sets. "The most perfect example of illustration . . . since Derain's "Enchanteur Pourrissant"--A History of the Nonesuch Press, p. 32. London, 1925