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Lot 152

ASHENDENE PRESS
A Book of Songs and Poems from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, ONE OF 150 COPIES on paper, from an overall edition of 175, Ashendene Press, 1904

27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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ASHENDENE PRESS

A Book of Songs and Poems from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, ONE OF 150 COPIES on paper, from an overall edition of 175, printed in red and black, initials supplied in blue by Graily Hewitt, blue crushed morocco gilt blue morocco gilt signed "W.H.S." [i.e. by Douglas Cockerel for W.H. Smith] on lower dentelle, covers with 2-line border with floral decorations in corners and sides, lettered in gilt within raised bands on spine, g.e. [Hornby XVIII], 8vo, Ashendene Press, 1904

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Provenance: "To Freddie from Victor, July 1919", inscription on front free endpaper.

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