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Sale 320: Fine Books & Manuscripts (#320) 11/03/2005 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 11/03/2005 1:00 PM PST

Lot #41 Sonnets. Tercentenary Edition

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$1,625

Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800

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Heading:

(Doves Press)

Title:

Sonnets. Tercentenary Edition

Author:

Shakespeare, William

Place Published:

[Hammersmith]

Publisher:

[Doves Press]

Date Published:

1909

Description:

84, [2] pp. Printed in red and black. (8vo) 9¼x6½, full morocco gilt-ruled, all edges gilt, by the Doves Bindery, signed "19 C-S 09". One of 250 copies on paper.

Lovely Doves Press edition of Shakespeare's sonnets, published from the first edition of 1609. Three capitals were designed by Edward Johnston and engraved by Noel Rooke and A.E.R. Gill. Booklabel of W.M. Carpenter.

Condition:

Spine darkened, light wear to joints and chip to spine head, slight rubbing to edges, turn-ins offset to endpapers; else very good.

Item#:

166718
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