Jun 10, 2015 - Sale 2387

Sale 2387 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(LEAF BOOKS.) An Original Leaf from the Polychronicon printed by William Caxton at Westminster in the Year 1482. The Life and Works of William Caxton, with an Historical Reminder of Fifteenth Century English by Benjamin P. Kurtz, together with a Note on the Polycronicon by Oscar Lewis & an Appreciation of William Caxton by Edwin Grabhorn. Printed in red and black Franciscan type. Contains leaf Liber Sextus CCCxii, with one word of marginalia and two small manuscript chapter initials, with some usual browning and dampstaining. 4to, publisher's linen-backed printed boards and spine label. one of 297 unnumbered copies. this, the estelle doheny copy. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1938