Lot 99
  • 99

Doves Press

Estimate
300 - 500 GBP
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Description

  • Doves Press
  • A small group of books and ephemera, comprising:
  • Paper
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius. De Vita et Moribus Julii Agricolae Liber. The Doves Press, 1900, small 4to, THE FIRST DOVES PRESS BOOK, one of 230 copies of which this is one of 225 on paper, brown morocco gilt signed “BGH” retaining blanks, letter of presentation signed by Ernest Treglown, [Tidcombe DP1]--[Cobden-Sanderson, T.J.] Catalogue Raisonné... May 1908. The Doves Press, 1908, small 4to, one of 300 copies, original cloth-backed boards, [Tidcombe DP14]; together with two pieces of ephemera comprising Tidcombe DPE1 lacking order and subscription forms and DPE26--Cobden-Sanderson, T.J. Ecce Mundus. Hammersmith Publishing Society, 1902, small 4to, vellum-backed boards, ownership signature of Catterson-Smith dated October 1902 (5)

Condition

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