Jul 30, 2020 - Sale 2543

Sale 2543 - Lot 292

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
Rollins, Carl Purington (1880-1960) A Leaf from the Kelmscott Chaucer, [1896]. Folio, in original slipcase with monograph, comprising a bifolium from the Chaucer, viz., pages 419/420 & 429/430, three text pages with woodcut initials printed in two columns with sidenotes printed in red, and the incipit of The Legend of Good Women, with large woodcut border and imposing 19-line woodcut initial; [together with] Basil Hall's The Great Polyglot Bibles, including leaf k2 from the Complutensian of Alcala, 1514-1517, San Francisco: Book Club of California,1966, one of 400 copies printed, housed in the original custom box, etc.; [and] a custom box with two leaves from 16th century printed books and a sheet with 20th century calligraphy on parchment. (3) New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1941.