Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 261

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS.) Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Works. 8 volumes. Printed in red, blue, and black. Headings and initials drawn in color by Jocelyn V. Gaskin, hand-colored marginal drawings by Hugh Chesterman. 8vo, contemporary full crimson morocco, double gilt fillet covers, spines tooled and lettered in gold; elaborate gilt turn-ins and all edges gilt; cloth slipcase, split along one corner, shelfwear. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate in first volume. number 104 of 375 and a well-margined, attractively bound set in fine condition. Ransom 60. Oxford. 1928-29