Jun 10, 2015 - Sale 2387

Sale 2387 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CHISWICK PRESS.) Aeschylus. Oresteia. Greek text printed in red and black, created for Robert Proctor, based on the Alcala fount of 1514. 4to, original linen-backed blue boards with paper spine label, moderate wear. London, 1904

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one of 225 copies. inscribed by c.h. st. john hornby to clement shorter in 1921, and with book labels of Shorter and Douglas Maxwell Moffat on pastedown. Proctor died during the production of this work which was carried out by Frederic George Kenyon, Emery Walker, Sydney Cockerell and Alfred William Pollard.