Jun 10, 2015 - Sale 2387

Sale 2387 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 845
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(GEHENNA PRESS.) Skelton, John. The Tunning of Elynour Runnynge: The Famous Ale-Wife of England. Printed in red, black, teal, tan, and green. 13 woodcuts by Leonard Baskin printed in various colors. Tall 4to, publisher's boards with printed cover and spine labels. Small folded sheet with woodcut by Baskin inscribed with a new year's greeting and signed "Leonard & Esther" laid in. number 87 of 118 copies, the 5th book of the press, and the first to incorporate both text and illustration on the same page--Gehenna 5. Worcester, 1953