Property from the Estate of BEATRICE BISHOP BERLE
KELMSCOTT PRESS. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. Poems chosen out of the Work of Robert Herrick. Edited by F.S. Ellis, Hammersmith 1896. 8vo, 209 x 143 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 5/8 in.), original limp vellum, spine gilt-lettered, uncut, lacking 3 of 4 ties, covers slightly soiled, faint dust-soiling to upper margins, a few tiny holes to upper and fore-edges. ONE OF EIGHT COPIES ON VELLUM, from the edition of 308 copies, printed in Golden type in black and red, woodcut title-page, facing page with full woodcut page-border, other three-quarter woodcut page-borders, 10-line and smaller initial capitals, printer's device. Cockerell 38; Peterson A38.
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KELMSCOTT PRESS. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. Poems chosen out of the Work of Robert Herrick. Edited by F.S. Ellis, Hammersmith 1896. 8vo, 209 x 143 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 5/8 in.), original limp vellum, spine gilt-lettered, uncut, lacking 3 of 4 ties, covers slightly soiled, faint dust-soiling to upper margins, a few tiny holes to upper and fore-edges. ONE OF EIGHT COPIES ON VELLUM, from the edition of 308 copies, printed in Golden type in black and red, woodcut title-page, facing page with full woodcut page-border, other three-quarter woodcut page-borders, 10-line and smaller initial capitals, printer's device. Cockerell 38; Peterson A38.
Provenance: Willis Vickery, bookplate -- Cortlandt Field Bishop (sale, American Art Association, New York, part 2, 25-27 April 1938, lot 1189, $310).
Provenance: Willis Vickery, bookplate -- Cortlandt Field Bishop (sale, American Art Association, New York, part 2, 25-27 April 1938, lot 1189, $310).