ID 470089
Lot 176 | Thomas James Cobden Sanderson (1840-1922)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
Catalogue raisonné of [...] Doves Press. 1916
DOVES PRESS – Thomas James COBDEN SANDERSON (1840-1922). Catalogue raisonné of books printed & published at the Doves Press 1900-1916. Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1916.
The Breslauer copy of the last book from the Doves Press, in a splendid binding designed by Cobden-Sanderson and executed at the Doves Bindery. Limited edition of 160 copies, of which this is one of ten copies printed on vellum. In addition to the Doves Press catalogue, the book contains by way of introduction, ‘Salve aeternum aeternumque vale’, a farewell to the Press, its craftsmen and friends, as well as miscellaneous lectures, letters, advertisements and notes by Cobden-Sanderson. Accompanying this copy are a Doves Press prospectus annotated by Paul Hirsch and an annotated proofsheet from the Doves Press of Emerson's Essays of 1906.
Quarto in 8s (231 x 161mm). Printed on vellum in red and black. Etched portrait of Cobden-Sanderson by A. Legros, printed on paper, mounted on vellum and inserted as frontispiece (as issued). Gold-tooled orange-brown niger morocco designed by Cobden-Sanderson and executed at the Doves Bindery, covers with circled rosettes and large solid dots surrounded by ringlets and connected by straight and curved fillets, spine tooled and lettered, double fillet on turn-ins, signed and dated 1918 on rear turn-in, gilt edges; housed in cloth folding case by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Provenance: Ernst Kyriss, German binding historian and collector (discreet collector's stamp) – John A. Saks (bookplate, Christie's New York, 22 May 1981, lot 408) -- H. O'More (bookplate, sale Sotheby's New York, 10 November 1989, lot 279) – Bernard Breslauer (1918-2004, sale Christie’s NY, June 27-28, 2005, Lot 1128).
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe |
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| Auction house category: | Books |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe |
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