18th Nov, 2020 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs - Online auction

 
Lot 3035
 

3035

Golden Cockerel Press Bannet (Ivor), The Amazons, Golden Cockerel Press, 1948, numbered limited...

Golden Cockerel Press
Bannet (Ivor)
, The Amazons, Golden Cockerel Press, 1948, numbered limited edition of 500 copies, illustrated with engravings by Clifford Webb, top edge gilt, original half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe;
Besterman (Theodore) edit., The Pilgrim Fathers, A Journal of their Coming in the Mayflower .., Golden Cockerel Press, 1939, numbered limited edition of 300 copies, illustrated with engravings by Geoffrey Wales, top edge gilt, original quarter morocco;
Swinburne (Algernon Charles), Lucretia Borgia, The Chronicle of Tebaldeo Tebaldei .., Golden Cockerel Press, 1942, folio, numbered limited edition of 350 copies, illustrated with engravings by Reynolds Stone, top edge gilt, original cloth;
Jonson (Ben), A Croppe of Kisses, Selected Lyrics of .., Golden Cockerel Press, 1937, numbered limited edition of 250 copies, top edge gilt, original quarter morocco (4)

Sold for £450
Estimated at £200 - £300


 

. Amazons - Fine, Pilgrim Fathers - Near fine, tanning to upper and lower edges of boards. Lucretia Borgia - Contents fine. Foxing to lower uncut edge. Some spotting to the cloth, particularly edges. A few finger marks to cloth. A Croppe of Kisses - A few very light foxing spots to the fly leaf otherwise contents fine, some light offsetting, light foxing to the cloth and bottom uncut edge. Some spotting to the leather, back strip a little faded.

 


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