Live auction - Lot 171
Lot description
1. Nightingale, M[adeleine]. - Nursery Lays & Nursery Days. Oxford, B.H. Blackwell, 1919. 8vo: 44 pp. (some min. spotting). Loose, no binding, kept in a later wrapper. Verse book for children. Illustrated with woodcuts by Charles T. Nightingale. - 2. Keats, John - The letters of John Keats. Edinburgh, London, T.N. Foulis, 1908. 8vo. Orig. blindst. and gilt lettered paper boards, gilt decor. flat spine with title label (def. at head). Uncut copy. Second issue of the Holyrood books, printed at The Foulis Press. Printed in black and purple. Prov. Green stamps. - 3. Renan, Ernest - The song of songs as a drama. Translated with an introduction by Havelock Ellis, decorated by Bernard Sleigh. Birmingham, School of Printing, College of Arts and Crafts, 1937. 4to. Orig. orange, silver and gold textured boards (some def. at spine). In-house production at the City of Birmingham School of Printing. Printed in red and black within ruled margins. Ill. on title, several headpieces and one to the introduction.