Sales catalogue 629: Maggs Bros

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/166
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 629: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRINTED ON VELLUM. 120 SHAKESPEARE (W.). Sonnets. Printed entirely on vellum. Tercentenary Edition. 8vo, handsomely bound by McLeish (the finisher of the Doves Bindery) in full crimson levant morocco, sides decorated with floral design in gold of flowers and leaves forming a wide border, gilt back, g.e. Doves Press, 1909. £50 One of 25 copies printed on vellum. 121 The Tragedie of Julius Cesar. 8vo, original vellum, uncut. 1913. £9 9s 122 The Tragedie of Julius Ceesar. 8vo, full morocco, gold lines on sides, g.e. 1913. £10 10s 123 Venus and Adonis. 8vo, original boards, vellum back, uncut. 1912. &6 15s PRINTED ON VELLUM. 124 Venus and Adonis. Printed on vellum. 8vo, handsomely bound by Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery in full levant morocco, gilt panel back, the sides decorated with circular floral gilt design, gilt edges. 1912. £52 10s One of 15 copies only printed on vellum. PRINTED ON VELLUM. 125 TACITUS. De Vita et Moribus Julii Agricolae Liber. Printed entirely on vellum. 8vo, bound by the Doves Bindery in full red morocco extra, gilt back, the sides richly decorated with gilt curved lines and dots, g.e. Doves Press, 1900. £100 One of 5 copies printed on vellum. The first book printed at the Doves Press. 126 TENNYSON (Alfred, Lord). Seven Poems and Two Translations. 8vo, original limp vellum. 1902. &5 PRINTED ON VELLUM. 127 WILLIAM CAXTON. A Paper read at a Meeting of the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, Massachusetts, by George P. Winship. Printed entirely on vellum. 8vo, original vellum. Doves Press, 1909. Bad | One of 15 copies only printed on vellum. 128 WILLIAM MORRIS. An Address delivered the XIth November, 1900, at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, before the Hammersmith Socialist Society by J. W. Mackail. 8vo, full levant morocco extra, gilt floral sides, g.e., by the Doves Bindery. Doves Press, 1901. £12 12s 129 WORDSWORTH (William). The Prelude: An Autobiographical Poem, 1799-1805. Square 8vo, original vellum. London: Published and Sold at the Doves Press, 1915. £10 10s 5 |