Live auction - Lot 166

The Centaur. The Bacchante. Translated from the French [...] by T.S. Moore.

Subject: [UK - Vale Press]

GUÉRIN, Maurice de

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(London, printed at the Ballantyne Press, published by Hacon & Ricketts, 1899)

8vo.

Publisher's binding: white cloth, flat spine with gilt tile (spine sl. browned). Top edge trimmed.

Illustrated by Thomas Sturge Moore with 5 woodcuts, and by Ch. Ricketts with a half-border on the first page of each text, sm. ornaments in text and one full-page pressmark on last page. Printed in black in Vale type. Edition limited to 150 unnumbered copies on Arnold's hand-made paper, of which 140 for sale. All the woodblocks and vellum copies were burnt in the Ballantyne Press fire of December 1899.
Ref. Watry B28. - Ransom, Vale Press, 28. - Tomkinson, Vale Press, 28.- A collection of books designed by Charles Ricketts. Zurich, L'Art ancien, bulletin 25, 1972, pp. 2-43, n. 48.

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Lot 166

The Centaur. The Bacchante. Translated from the French [...] by T.S. Moore.

GUÉRIN, Maurice de

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