Lot 475
Charles Ricketts & the Vale Press.- Milton (John) Early Poems, one of 310 copies, 1896 & others (4)
Estimate: £600 - 800
Description
Charles Ricketts & the Vale Press.- Milton (John) Early Poems, one of 310 copies, Vale type, original cream buckram, rather rubbed and soiled, spine ends slightly worn, 1896 § Apuleius (Lucius) De Cupidinis et Psyches, [one of 310 copies], Vale type, 1901 § Meinhold (William) Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch, translated by Lady Duff Gordon, [one of 300 copies on paper], Vale & Avon type, ink inscription "E.H.W.Meyerstein d.d. W.R.Childe August xi.1910" to front free endpaper, 1903 § James I. The Kingis Quair, one of 260 copies, printed in red & black in King's fount, 1903, wood-engraved decorative borders, initials and illustrations by Charles Ricketts, occasional spotting, original cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed, all uncut, the second with later slip-case, [Watry B1, B33, B39 & B42], v.s., [Vale Press] (4)
⁂ E.H.W.Meyerstein (1889-1952), writer and scholar, author of a life of Thomas Chatterton.
The Property of J.Paul Delaney, author of a biography and other books on Charles Ricketts
Description
Charles Ricketts & the Vale Press.- Milton (John) Early Poems, one of 310 copies, Vale type, original cream buckram, rather rubbed and soiled, spine ends slightly worn, 1896 § Apuleius (Lucius) De Cupidinis et Psyches, [one of 310 copies], Vale type, 1901 § Meinhold (William) Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch, translated by Lady Duff Gordon, [one of 300 copies on paper], Vale & Avon type, ink inscription "E.H.W.Meyerstein d.d. W.R.Childe August xi.1910" to front free endpaper, 1903 § James I. The Kingis Quair, one of 260 copies, printed in red & black in King's fount, 1903, wood-engraved decorative borders, initials and illustrations by Charles Ricketts, occasional spotting, original cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed, all uncut, the second with later slip-case, [Watry B1, B33, B39 & B42], v.s., [Vale Press] (4)
⁂ E.H.W.Meyerstein (1889-1952), writer and scholar, author of a life of Thomas Chatterton.
The Property of J.Paul Delaney, author of a biography and other books on Charles Ricketts
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