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SELLARS, DAVID, binder. SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS. PINDAR. Odes of Victory, the Olympian and Pythian Odes, with an introduction and a translation into English verse by C.J. Billson: embellished with wood-engravings by John Farleigh. Stratford-upon-Avon 1928.
4to, 282 x 195 x 50mm. (11 1/16 x 7 5/8 x 2in.), reversed orange goatskin covered with irregularly shaped onlays of puckered gray goatskin, upper cover with large black disc traversed by a thin porous onlay of light brown leather with irregularly torn edges and with a small red and white inner disc, both discs with slightly embossed edges, lower cover with matching disc and central roundel of onlaid black calf outlined in a thin aureola of onlaid red morocco to resemble an eclipsed sun, round vellum gilt-lettered title-piece with irregularly painted black borders inlaid to center of smooth spine, gray morocco doublures with painted black circle, buckram folding box, the back with morocco lettering-piece, the binder's monogram blind-stamped on lower doublure. LIMITED EDITION, NUMBER 1 OF SEVEN COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM from the edition of 257, title and text in Greek and English, wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces.
Provenance: Stuart B. Schimmel (sale, Christie's New York, 17 May 1991, lot 62).
4to, 282 x 195 x 50mm. (11 1/16 x 7 5/8 x 2in.), reversed orange goatskin covered with irregularly shaped onlays of puckered gray goatskin, upper cover with large black disc traversed by a thin porous onlay of light brown leather with irregularly torn edges and with a small red and white inner disc, both discs with slightly embossed edges, lower cover with matching disc and central roundel of onlaid black calf outlined in a thin aureola of onlaid red morocco to resemble an eclipsed sun, round vellum gilt-lettered title-piece with irregularly painted black borders inlaid to center of smooth spine, gray morocco doublures with painted black circle, buckram folding box, the back with morocco lettering-piece, the binder's monogram blind-stamped on lower doublure. LIMITED EDITION, NUMBER 1 OF SEVEN COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM from the edition of 257, title and text in Greek and English, wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces.
Provenance: Stuart B. Schimmel (sale, Christie's New York, 17 May 1991, lot 62).