Apr 30, 2008 10:00 EST
Books and Prints
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GREGYNOG PRESS
FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE. Caelica. Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1936. One of 225 copies, of which this is one of 15 specially bound, this copy number 7. Full slate-blue morocco, each cover with six onlaid six-pointed stars of rose-tinted vellum, connected by rules in fold and blind; signed on the rear bottom turn-in by Blair Hughes-Stanton (designer) and George Fisher at the Gregynog Press Bindery. 9 inches (23 cm); binding 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches (23 x 17 cm), top edge gilt. xiii pp. including title-page, 249 pp. plus colophon leaf. Housed in the original Gregynog drop-back case.
Harrop 36; Zilverdistel 36.
Provenance: J.R. Abbey's copy, with his bookplate.
Sold for $2,375
Estimated at $1,200 - $1,800
Includes Buyer's Premium
GREGYNOG PRESS
FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE. Caelica. Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1936. One of 225 copies, of which this is one of 15 specially bound, this copy number 7. Full slate-blue morocco, each cover with six onlaid six-pointed stars of rose-tinted vellum, connected by rules in fold and blind; signed on the rear bottom turn-in by Blair Hughes-Stanton (designer) and George Fisher at the Gregynog Press Bindery. 9 inches (23 cm); binding 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches (23 x 17 cm), top edge gilt. xiii pp. including title-page, 249 pp. plus colophon leaf. Housed in the original Gregynog drop-back case.
Harrop 36; Zilverdistel 36.
Provenance: J.R. Abbey's copy, with his bookplate.
Auction: Books and Prints, Apr 30, 2008
