KELMSCOTT PRESS VORAGINE (JACOBUS DE) The Golden Legend, 3 vol., LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, [1892]
Lot 223•
KELMSCOTT PRESS. VORAGINE (JACOBUS DE) The Golden Legend, 3 vol., LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, [1892]
Sold for £3,250 (US$ 5,423) inc. premium
Auction Details
KELMSCOTT PRESS. VORAGINE (JACOBUS DE) The Golden Legend, 3 vol., LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, [1892] KELMSCOTT PRESS. VORAGINE (JACOBUS DE) The Golden Legend, 3 vol., LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, [1892]
Lot Details
KELMSCOTT PRESS
VORAGINE (JACOBUS DE) The Golden Legend, 3 vol., LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, 2 wood-engraved illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones, ornamental woodcut title, border and initials, with the printed slip by Morris loosely inserted, neat purchase note on front free endpaper of volume one, ink number on verso of titles, uncut in publisher's cloth-backed boards, preserved in textile wrappers designed by Morris, each in drop-back box [Peterson A7], 4to, Kelmscott Press, [1892]

Saleroom notices

  • Please note the condition report concerning some red staining to the otherwise fine original boards.
Activities
Go to Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs
Auction terms and conditions
Lot symbols
• Exempt from tax
Contacts
  1. Simon Roberts
    Specialist - Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs
    Bonhams
    Work
    Montpelier Street
    London, SW7 1HH
    United Kingdom
    Work +44 20 7393 3828
    FaxFax: +44 20 7393 3879
Similar items
[Nuremberg Chronicle.] Schedel, Hartmann. Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 12 July, 1493. Folio. KELMSCOTT PRESS CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) The Works, ONE OF 425 COPIES KELMSCOTT PRESS CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) The Works Aubrey Beardsley's copy of S. Mallarme's Apres midi d'un faun, 1862; anr. ed. illus Manet (2) KELMSCOTT PRESS CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) The Works, ONE OF 425 COPIES, 1896 KELMSCOTT PRESS The Tale of Beowulf [Done Out of the Old English Tongue by William Morris & A.J. Wyatt], LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY FROM WYATT, 1895; and manuscript glossary (2)