(SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS) Spencer Edmund Works including The

Sale 2225 - Lot 311

Price Realized: $ 270

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

(SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS.) Spencer, Edmund. Works, including The Shepheardes Calender. 8 volumes. Printed in blue and black. Decorations designed and engraved on wood by Hilda Quick, headpieces with hand-coloring, initials and lettering designed by Jocelyne Gaskin. 4to, 1/4 gilt-lettered green calf over marbled boards, spines darkened with scattered dryness and rubbing; few joints cracked or starting; prospectus laid into Volume 1. number 203 of 375 sets. Oxford, 1930-31

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with--Homer. Works. 5 volumes. Illustrated. 4to, 1/2 red morocco gilt, quite worn. Number 114 of 450 sets published at the Shakespeare Head Press. London, 1930-31.