Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 265

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS.) Spenser, Edmund. Works. 8 volumes. Printed in red and black, wood-engraved decorations by Hilda Quick, initials and headings after Joscelyn Gaskin hand-colored in red, black and blue. 4to, 1/4 green calf over marbled boards, rubbed, vellum-tipped corners, gilt-lettered spines, occasional light spotting to top edges; folded prospectus laid in (offset from contemporary newsprint clippings enclosed). Norman J. Sondheim bookplate in first volume. number 323 of 375 sets. (Oxford), 1930-31