Catalogue of Books from the Kelmscott, Doves, Ashendene, Golden Cockerel, Nonesuch and other Presses. [ Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 22-23 June, 1978 ]

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 22nd - 23rd June, 1978. Blue printed wrappers, small 4to,. 96 pp, 33 black-and-white plates, text ills. 537 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: an Almost Complete Collection of Books and Leaflets from the Doves Press including Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, 2 Vol., One of 3 Copies on Vellum with the Initials in Gold, 1902-05; the English Bible, 5 Vol., One of 2 Copies on Vellum, 1903-05; Browning's Men and Women, 2 Vol., One of 12 Copies on Vellum, Flourished by Edward Johnston, 1908, and Thirty-One Other Books, All on Vellum, in Bindings Designed by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson; an Almost Complete Collection of Books from the Golden Cockerel Press, including a Presentation Copy of Mathers' Procreant Hymn, Inscribed by Gill to His Sometime Confessor the Rev. J. O'Connor, 1926; Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, 1927, and Canterbury Tales, 4 Vol., 1929-31; the Chester Play of the Deluge, 1927; Lawrence's Secret Despatches from Arabia, One of 30 Specially Bound, [1939]; Napoleon's Memoirs, 2 Vol., One of 50 Specially Bound, 1945, and Other Specially Bound Copies; William Morris's Wood Beyond The World, 1894, the Life and Death of Jason, 1895, the Well at The World's End, 1896, and the Earthly Paradise, 8 Vol., 1896-97, and Other Books from the Kelmscott Press; the Ashendene Press Thucydides, 1930, Ecclesiasticus, 1932, and Descriptive Bibliography, 1935; Vanbrugh's Complete Works, 4 Vol., One of 110 on Hand-Made Paper, 1927; Dryden's Dramatic Works, 6 Vol., One of 50 on Van Gelder Paper, 1931-32; Shakespeare's Works, 7 Vol., 1929-33; Dickens' Works, 23 Vol., 1937-38 and Other Books from the Nonesuch Press; Complete Collections of Books and Ephemera from the Pandora, Offcut, and New Broom Presses, and Works from the Boar's Head, Chiswick, Cresset, Daniel, Essex House, Gregynog, Officina Bodoni, Shakespeare Head, and Twelve by Eight Presses; Extensive Collections of Books Issued by the Limited Editions Club and Folio Society; a Copy of Morris's Earthly Paradise, 4 Vol., Specially Bound by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson While Apprenticed to R. de Coverly; Three Books Bound by Katherine Adams, and Two Fine Illuminated Manuscripts by Alberto Sangorski in Elaborate Bindings. Wrappers a little marked, tear to top 3 inches of front hinge, musty smell, contents clean. List of estimates laid in.