Live auction - Lot 168
[UK - Vale Press]
Danaë.
(London, printed at the Ballantyne Press, the last book sold by Hacon & Ricketts & by John Lane, New York, [June] 1903)
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
8vo.
Publisher's binding: half beige cloth, blue paper boards, red title label on front cover, flat spine. Top edge trimmed.
Illustrated by Ch. Ricketts with 3 woodcut plates, accompanied with captions printed in red. It is the last book published by Hacon and Ricketts. Printed in red & black in King's font. Edition limited to 240 unnumbered copies (incl. 10 on vellum), one of the 230 on Arnold's hand-made paper (150 being for sale in England).
Ref. Watry B43. - Ransom, Vale Press, 43. - Tomkinson, Vale Press, 43. - A collection of books designed by Charles Ricketts. Zurich, L'Art ancien, bulletin 25, 1972, pp. 2-43, n. 65.