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THE ESSEX HOUSE PRESS--Walt WHITMAN (1819-1892). Hymn on the Death of President Lincoln. London: 1900. PRINTED ON VELLUM. 8° (183 x 123mm). Hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece, initials and press device. Original crushed blue morocco binding by Riviere & Son with stylised art nouveau gilt cornerpieces of scrolling foliage with tan morocco onlays, spine gilt in 3 compartments. NUMBER 3 OF 125 COPIES ON VELLUM. Ransom p.265; Tomkinson p.69.
Edmund SPENSER (1552?-1599). The Epithalamion of Spenser. London: 1901. PRINTED ON VELLUM in black and red. 8° (185 x 123mm). Hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece by Reginald Savage, opening initial and press device, initials supplied in manuscript, four initials illuminated in gold. Original blind-stamped vellum. NUMBER 110 OF 150 COPIES ON VELLUM. Ransom p.266; Tomkinson p.72.
Together with 19 other works published by the Essex House Press, all limited editions, bound in the original vellum or cloth-backed boards, or contemporary morocco. (21)
Edmund SPENSER (1552?-1599). The Epithalamion of Spenser. London: 1901. PRINTED ON VELLUM in black and red. 8° (185 x 123mm). Hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece by Reginald Savage, opening initial and press device, initials supplied in manuscript, four initials illuminated in gold. Original blind-stamped vellum. NUMBER 110 OF 150 COPIES ON VELLUM. Ransom p.266; Tomkinson p.72.
Together with 19 other works published by the Essex House Press, all limited editions, bound in the original vellum or cloth-backed boards, or contemporary morocco. (21)
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