Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 262

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS.) Froissart, Jean. Cronycles. Translated by Lord Berners. Printed in Caslon type, numerous hand-colored woodcut coats-of-arms on titles and in margins, maps hand-colored in outline. 8vo, contemporary 3/4 blue morocco gilt, occasional shelfwear to covers, corners slightly rubbed, top edges gilt, others uncut; prospectus laid in. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate. Oxford, 1937

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number 308 of 350 sets. A nicely bound set of one of the "three major works in the private press story - Froissart, Spenser and Chaucer." Cave, pp. 147-148.