Lot 478
Charles Ricketts & the Vale Press.- Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper, "Michael Field". The World at Auction, with bookplate by Lucien Pissarro, 1898 & others by the same (7)
Hammer Price: £950
Description
Charles Ricketts & the Vale Press.- Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper, "Michael Field". The World at Auction, [one of 210 copies], with pictorial wood-engraved bookplate by Lucien Pissarro for the printmaker Joseph Manuel Andreini on front pastedown, 1898; The Race of Leaves, [one of 280 copies on paper], 1901; Julia Domna, [one of 240 copies on paper], 1903, all printed in red and black, wood-engraved decorative borders and initials by Charles Ricketts, original patterned-paper boards, uncut, a little rubbed, the first with spine ends worn, [Watry B18, B31 & B41], [Vale Press]; and 4 others by the same in cloth bindings designed by Ricketts, 8vo (7)
The Property of J.Paul Delaney, author of a biography and other books on Charles Ricketts
Description
Charles Ricketts & the Vale Press.- Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper, "Michael Field". The World at Auction, [one of 210 copies], with pictorial wood-engraved bookplate by Lucien Pissarro for the printmaker Joseph Manuel Andreini on front pastedown, 1898; The Race of Leaves, [one of 280 copies on paper], 1901; Julia Domna, [one of 240 copies on paper], 1903, all printed in red and black, wood-engraved decorative borders and initials by Charles Ricketts, original patterned-paper boards, uncut, a little rubbed, the first with spine ends worn, [Watry B18, B31 & B41], [Vale Press]; and 4 others by the same in cloth bindings designed by Ricketts, 8vo (7)
The Property of J.Paul Delaney, author of a biography and other books on Charles Ricketts
