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Lot 477
Charles Ricketts & the Vale Press.- Arnold (Matthew) Empedocles on Etna, [one of 210 copies], 1896 & others from the press including some ephemera (17)
Hammer Price: £950
Description
Charles Ricketts & the Vale Press.- Arnold (Matthew) Empedocles on Etna, [one of 210 copies], Vale type, original blue boards, uncut, a little rubbed, spine faded, 1896 § Browning (Robert) Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, one of 210 copies, 1899 § Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Poems, [one of 320 copies], some light foxing, 1900 § Wordsworth (William) Poems, edited by T.Sturge Moore, [one of 310 copies], 1902, all Vale type, wood-engraved borders, decorative initials and illustrations by Charles Ricketts, the last three uniform original cream buckram, all uncut, spines a little browned, the Tennyson with boards spotted and browned, [Watry B8, B26, B29 & 37], [Vale Press]; and 2 others from the press (Watry B2 & B19) and a small bundle of 11 Vale pieces of ephemera (lists, catalogues, order forms), 8vo (17)
The Property of J.Paul Delaney, author of a biography and other books on Charles Ricketts
Description
Charles Ricketts & the Vale Press.- Arnold (Matthew) Empedocles on Etna, [one of 210 copies], Vale type, original blue boards, uncut, a little rubbed, spine faded, 1896 § Browning (Robert) Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, one of 210 copies, 1899 § Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Poems, [one of 320 copies], some light foxing, 1900 § Wordsworth (William) Poems, edited by T.Sturge Moore, [one of 310 copies], 1902, all Vale type, wood-engraved borders, decorative initials and illustrations by Charles Ricketts, the last three uniform original cream buckram, all uncut, spines a little browned, the Tennyson with boards spotted and browned, [Watry B8, B26, B29 & 37], [Vale Press]; and 2 others from the press (Watry B2 & B19) and a small bundle of 11 Vale pieces of ephemera (lists, catalogues, order forms), 8vo (17)
The Property of J.Paul Delaney, author of a biography and other books on Charles Ricketts
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