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[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. VORAIGNE, Jacobus de (1230-1298). The Golden Legend. Translated by William Caxton, edited by F. S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892.
3 volumes, 4o (290 x 205mm). Golden type, woodcut title and two full-page illustrations after Edward Burne Jones, six- and ten- line initials. Original holland-backed blue paper boards with paper labels, uncut and unopened (spines lightly browned, corners a bit worn); uniform quarter maroon morocco gilt slipcases. Provenance: John A. Saks (bookplates; his sale Christie's New York, 20 May 1983, lot 135).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 copies. This collection of lives of the saints gave its name to the type used for it, the Golden Type, which was modelled on a combination of the types used by Jacobus Rebus and Nicholas Jenson in 1476. The Kelmscott edition was set up from a transcript of Caxton's first edition of his translation (Westminster: 1483). Peterson A7; Sparling 7; Tomkinson p. 109. (3).
3 volumes, 4
LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 copies. This collection of lives of the saints gave its name to the type used for it, the Golden Type, which was modelled on a combination of the types used by Jacobus Rebus and Nicholas Jenson in 1476. The Kelmscott edition was set up from a transcript of Caxton's first edition of his translation (Westminster: 1483). Peterson A7; Sparling 7; Tomkinson p. 109. (3).