9th Apr, 2025 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
Lot 131
 

131

Private Press.
Jones (Glyn & T. J. Morgan). The Story of Heledd. Gregynog Press, 1994, number 70 of 400 copies, engravings by Harry Brockway, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, together with:
Armstrong (Martin). Saint Hercules and Other Stories. London: Fleuron for the Curwen Press, [1927], one of 310 copies (unnumbered), illustrations by Paul Nash, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spotting to boards, together with:
Browne (William). Circe and Ulysses. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1954, number 177 of 300 copies, wood engravings by Mark Severin, prospectus loosely inserted, bookseller pencil notes to front free endpaper, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, two corners very slightly bumped, faint toning and spotting to board/page edges, together with:
Woolnough (C. W.). A Pretty Mysterious Art. Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 1996, number 19 of 30 special copies, tipped-in marbled paper samples by Ann Muir with eight (of nine) further samples issued loose, original cloth-backed marbled boards, housed in custom cloth-covered solander box, together with:
Hopkins (Gerard Manley). Pied Beauty. A Selection of Poems. Simon King Press, 1994, number 29 of 75 copies, illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, together with:
A Quantity of other Private Press/Illustrated works.
(Qty)

Sold for £800
Estimated at £200 - £400


 

Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 9th Apr, 2025

The Books, Maps and Manuscripts sales encompass a broad range of collecting areas from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, which are sold alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, autographed letters and historic documents. Held four times a year, the specialist Book sales incorporate both private collections and libraries, and single lots from vendors across the United Kingdom.

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