Essex House Press.

Chaucer, G. The Flower and the Leaf. 1902, 8vo, un-numbered copy of 165 copies on vellum, illustrations by Edith Harwood, [Ransom 'Essex House' 29], later full vellum, ornamental letters uncoloured--Milton, J. Comus. 1901 [1902], 8vo, un-numbered copy of 150 copies on vellum, early state? lacking all but one gilded capital with a number of capitals in pencil and also stating frontispiece by Selwyn Image in colophon, [Ransom 'Essex House' 31], later full vellum--Shelley, P.B. Prometheus Unbound. 1904, 4to, un-numbered copy of 220 copies of which this is one of 20 on vellum, frontispiece by C.R. Ashbee, unbound, [Ransom 'Essex House' 43]--Cicero. The Booke of Freendeship. 1904, 4to, un-numbered copy of 160 copies of which this is one of 150 on paper, illustrations by Alec Miller, original vellum, [Ransom 'Essex House' 46]; all in collector's slipcases or folding box (4)

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