Order Nr. 106212 CATALOGUE OF A COPY OF THE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER PRINTED UPON VELLUM AND OF THE EXTREMELY FINE MANUSCRIPT OF VIRGIL'S AENEID, BY WILLIAM MORRIS, THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN.

CATALOGUE OF A COPY OF THE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER PRINTED UPON VELLUM AND OF THE EXTREMELY FINE MANUSCRIPT OF VIRGIL'S AENEID, BY WILLIAM MORRIS, THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN.

(Kelmscott Press).
  • London: Sotheby and Co., 1928.
  • 8vo.
  • stiff paper wrappers.
  • 8 pages and 5 plates.

Price: $60.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 106212

The illustrated version of the catalogue. According to William and Sylvia Peterson (The Kelmscott Chaucer, a Census), this copy in a binding by Lilian Barton-Wilson was sold by Arthur Fairfax Murray at this sale, purchased by Dutton, sold to Chaucer Head Book Shop, sold to John Saks, sold at Christie in 1983 to Sir Paul Getty and then sold by Sir Paul Getty (via Maggs) to the University Texas for $220,000 in 1983. Front cover almost detached. Else near fine.