PRINTED BOOKS
1. Illustrated and Private Press Books
APULEIUS, Lucius. The Excellent Narration of the Marriage of Cupide and Psyches, translated by William Adlington, London: BALLANTYNE PRESS, 1897, 8°, LIMITED TO 210 COPIES, printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations by Charles Ricketts, later morocco gilt by Bumpus with an inlaid floral design on the covers (lightly soiled and rubbed), silk liners, t.e.g., initials of Mrs Ward-Jackson on front free endpaper -- Oliver GOLDSMITH. The Deserted Village, Campden: ESSEX HOUSE PRESS, 1904, 8°, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES ON VELLUM, hand-coloured frontispiece by C. R. Ashbee, coloured initials, original vellum gilt (lacks ties, very lightly stained). With 4 other illustrated books, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Blessed Damozel (London, 1898, one of 10 on vellum) and Robert Steele's The Revival of Printing: A Bibliographical Catalogue (London, 1912). (6)
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APULEIUS, Lucius. The Excellent Narration of the Marriage of Cupide and Psyches, translated by William Adlington, London: BALLANTYNE PRESS, 1897, 8°, LIMITED TO 210 COPIES, printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations by Charles Ricketts, later morocco gilt by Bumpus with an inlaid floral design on the covers (lightly soiled and rubbed), silk liners, t.e.g., initials of Mrs Ward-Jackson on front free endpaper -- Oliver GOLDSMITH. The Deserted Village, Campden: ESSEX HOUSE PRESS, 1904, 8°, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES ON VELLUM, hand-coloured frontispiece by C. R. Ashbee, coloured initials, original vellum gilt (lacks ties, very lightly stained). With 4 other illustrated books, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Blessed Damozel (London, 1898, one of 10 on vellum) and Robert Steele's The Revival of Printing: A Bibliographical Catalogue (London, 1912). (6)