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Private Press.- Gold & Silver.- Ashbee (C.R.) Modern English Silverwork, one of 200 copies signed by the author, lithographed plates by the author, some partly hand-coloured, browned & brittle at edges, front free endpaper loose, other leaves mounted on stubs, original buckram, upper joint split, Broad Campden, Essex House Press, 1909 § Cellini (Benvenuto) The Treatises on Goldsmithing and Sculpture, translated by Ashbee, one of 600 copies, photogravure plates, illustrations, errata/advertisement leaf at end, original buckram, uncut, lacking spine, Essex House Press, 1898 § Symonds (John Addington) The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, 2 vol., one of 300 copies, wood-engraved decorative border and initial by Charles Ricketts, light spotting, original holland-backed boards, uncut & unopened, Vale Press, 1900 § Burne-Jones (Edward) The Beginning of the World: Twenty-Five Pictures..., illustrations after Burne-Jones, original linen-backed boards, uncut, browned, upper cover detached with preliminaries, printed at the Chiswick Press, 190, all rather rubbed or worn; and 8 others, private press, 4to & 8vo (14)

Lot 24

Private Press.- Gold & Silver.- Ashbee (C.R.) Modern English Silverwork, one of 200 copies signed by the author, Broad Campden, Essex House Press, 1909 & others (14)  

Hammer Price: £600

Description

Private Press.- Gold & Silver.- Ashbee (C.R.) Modern English Silverwork, one of 200 copies signed by the author, lithographed plates by the author, some partly hand-coloured, browned & brittle at edges, front free endpaper loose, other leaves mounted on stubs, original buckram, upper joint split, Broad Campden, Essex House Press, 1909 § Cellini (Benvenuto) The Treatises on Goldsmithing and Sculpture, translated by Ashbee, one of 600 copies, photogravure plates, illustrations, errata/advertisement leaf at end, original buckram, uncut, lacking spine, Essex House Press, 1898 § Symonds (John Addington) The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, 2 vol., one of 300 copies, wood-engraved decorative border and initial by Charles Ricketts, light spotting, original holland-backed boards, uncut & unopened, Vale Press, 1900 § Burne-Jones (Edward) The Beginning of the World: Twenty-Five Pictures..., illustrations after Burne-Jones, original linen-backed boards, uncut, browned, upper cover detached with preliminaries, printed at the Chiswick Press, 190, all rather rubbed or worn; and 8 others, private press, 4to & 8vo (14)

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