Live Auction 5475Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts
KELMSCOTT PRESS -- MORE, Thomas (1478-1535). Utopia. Translated by Ralph Robinson, with a Foreword by William Morris. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. 8° (206 x 140mm). Chaucer and Troy types, printed in red and black. 2 full-page woodcut borders and numerous 10-line and smaller initial capitals by William Morris. Original limp vellum, yapp edges, spine lettered in gilt, silk ties (light spotting on the edges, vellum lightly soiled). Provenance: 'H.E.L.' (gift inscription, dated 'Eton, Dec 51914' to:) -- Edward Kay-Shuttleworth. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies on paper from and edition of 308. Cockerell 16; Peterson A16.
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KELMSCOTT PRESS -- MORE, Thomas (1478-1535). Utopia. Translated by Ralph Robinson, with a Foreword by William Morris. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. 8° (206 x 140mm). Chaucer and Troy types, printed in red and black. 2 full-page woodcut borders and numerous 10-line and smaller initial capitals by William Morris. Original limp vellum, yapp edges, spine lettered in gilt, silk ties (light spotting on the edges, vellum lightly soiled). Provenance: 'H.E.L.' (gift inscription, dated 'Eton, Dec 51914' to:) -- Edward Kay-Shuttleworth. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies on paper from and edition of 308. Cockerell 16; Peterson A16.

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KELMSCOTT PRESS -- MORE, Thomas (1478-1535). Utopia. Translated by Ralph Robinson, with a Foreword by William Morris. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. 8° (206 x 140mm). Chaucer and Troy types, printed in red and black. 2 full-page woodcut borders and numerous 10-line and smaller initial capitals by William Morris. Original limp vellum, yapp edges, spine lettered in gilt, silk ties (light spotting on the edges, vellum lightly soiled). Provenance: 'H.E.L.' (gift inscription, dated 'Eton, Dec 51914' to:) -- Edward Kay-Shuttleworth. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies on paper from and edition of 308. Cockerell 16; Peterson A16.