Apr 30, 2008 10:00 EST
Books and Prints
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ASHENDENE PRESS
VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Publii Vergilii Maronis Opera. Bucolica. Georgica. Aeneis. Shelley House, Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1910. One of 40 copies on Japanese vellum (and 8 on animal vellum). The issue binding of stiff full vellum, with fore-edge ties of hide. 10 inches (25 cm), all edges plain. 2 ff., 468 pp., colophon leaf, printed in red and black; with hand-drawn chapter initials, and paragraph marks throughout in red and blue (the first initial in laid gold) by Graily Hewitt. Small book label of Laurence Hodson.
Conserved in a beautifully constructed box by James Brockman, with his binder's label. Hornby Ashendene Press Bibliography 25.
Provenance: as noted above, from the remarkable library of Laurence Hodson.
Sold for $5,312
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Includes Buyer's Premium
ASHENDENE PRESS
VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Publii Vergilii Maronis Opera. Bucolica. Georgica. Aeneis. Shelley House, Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1910. One of 40 copies on Japanese vellum (and 8 on animal vellum). The issue binding of stiff full vellum, with fore-edge ties of hide. 10 inches (25 cm), all edges plain. 2 ff., 468 pp., colophon leaf, printed in red and black; with hand-drawn chapter initials, and paragraph marks throughout in red and blue (the first initial in laid gold) by Graily Hewitt. Small book label of Laurence Hodson.
Conserved in a beautifully constructed box by James Brockman, with his binder's label. Hornby Ashendene Press Bibliography 25.
Provenance: as noted above, from the remarkable library of Laurence Hodson.
Auction: Books and Prints, Apr 30, 2008
